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Found a gobbler in the woods with no head, looked like a clean cut. When I asked around, I was told an owl did it. I had a hawk grab my turkey decoy by the head once, I imagine their talons would be sharp enough for a clean cut.
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My neighbor had several chickens decapitated. Turned out to be a great horned owl.
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Kept finding the occasional headless rabbit carcass in our back yard back when we lived out in the country. Rabbits congregated there after dark often to feed on apples fallen from our apple tree. Couldn't figure out what was doing it until one night I happened to hear some frantic animal squealing outside, grabbed a flashlight and caught a big owl in the process in the light beam. Later on I found where it had a huge old nest built high up in a giant old oak tree in the woods back behind our property.
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I’ve seen coons just eat the heads too
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I am pretty sure it is raccoons. I put a trail cam out but have not caught anything yet. I’ve lost three chickens in the last month.
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By contrast, a few years ago I got up one morning to find a rabbit head, no body, on the living room floor. The cat found the dog door.
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I've had the opposite twice recently. All of the squirrel is gone, except for the head. The cut is as if the head was severed with a knife. I've watched dogs eat ground squirrels I had shot or trapped, they eat the entire animal. Birds are quite messy. I can see bobcat eating the carcass, but the head is too messy/hard for their delicate cat sensibilities? We have bobcats roaming our neighborhood. We also have coyotes.
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So far, aliens in a small space ship seems the most plausible answer.
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Once ran a concrete batch plant that stood about 110' tall with a conveyor belt and catwalk running up to the top to feed the plant. An owl had built a nest up top and we mostly worked around it to let it do it's thing. One day I'm walking up the catwalk and the entire length was littered with headless gophers, rats, mice, ground squirrels and moles. Surrounding the nest were piles of headless rodents waiting to be fed to the owlets.
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I was always told this was the work of a mink.
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My Labrador has done it twice that I know of. That's the only two that I aware of her catching. She has no interest in the body
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I was mowing my father-in-law's grass one day and saw a rabbit with no head. Went out there the next day to pick it up and throw it in the woods, and the damn thing was gone.
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I was mowing my father-in-law's grass one day and saw a rabbit with no head. Went out there the next day to pick it up and throw it in the woods, and the damn thing was gone. Ohno A headless rabbit running around,, don't go out at night without a 44 mag.
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I was "taught" that weasels would bite the throat and lap up the blood.
That aside, I like the owl theory.
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Got an eyeful when I googled that one! Damn.
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My guess would also be an owl. They will land on the limb next to a roosting chicken and just reach over and take it's head off.
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I've watched mink do it. Am sure some other animals would do the same.
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