cakkleberrylane wrote: The first thing that hit me was a smell, kind of an animal smell, not raw meat or blood, but maybe fur and some kind of chemical - adrenelin maybe? Similiar to the way the cat smells when she's scared, but different. I heard something running, not fast and only a few steps - it sounded like 80-100 lbs. but at night things like that can sound heavier than they are. I checked the hen house, which the chickens abandoned after a coon attack a couple of weeks ago (they are roosting in the trees and won't use the hen house anymore), and heard running again. I'm thinking that whatever it was tried to wait for me to leave - it had already killed the rooster but hadn't had a chance to eat him yet.
Sorry about your roo. Your description distills that `in the dark' creepy aspect that vermin ID can sometimes conjure up.
Please copy and paste your post into a new thread (you'll get more responses).
I'm thinking it was something like a Sableator (cross between weasel family and alligators)...
Really, though, someone from your area might know just `what' it is.
Good luck!
Sorry about your roo. Your description distills that `in the dark' creepy aspect that vermin ID can sometimes conjure up.
Please copy and paste your post into a new thread (you'll get more responses).
I'm thinking it was something like a Sableator (cross between weasel family and alligators)...
Really, though, someone from your area might know just `what' it is.
Good luck!
