Lamontelle4
Chirping
- Aug 11, 2019
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I have some questions
1) how rural do you live?
2) how clean was the cut?
3) did you hear any suspicious noises during the night?
4) have similar cases like this happened to other people you live near?
5) what was the condition of the corpses? We’re they mangled pretty badly? We’re they possibly positioned in anyway or specific pattern?
6) is it possible an animal could have climbed, or dug its way into the hutch?
Possibility’s:
1) a domestic animal like a cat could have done this. Cats typically only eat the heads off mice from my personal observations, so I see that as a possible answer. If the bodies were mangled or in bad shape, and there appeared to be a struggle that supports my theory that it was an animal.
2) it was a human who did this. If the severed head are nowhere to be found, and the lacerations on the neck appear to have been done by a knife then it could quite possibly be a scary instance where someone, that you may or may not know could have done this. This may be the case if there doesn’t appear to be forced entry into the hutch. Where I live we had someone going around murdering people’s cats. (Olympia cat murderer). So these things do happen. I don’t see how any animal could manage to kill that quantity of animals all by itself, And multiple animals attacking would cause a commotion.
). Stink rats hunt alone. But they do leave bodies in piles. Ferrets do that with their "toys" sometimes. Check the corners of the coop. Weasel family critters will all back into a corner to deficate! Every single time, every single animal. They are protecting their backs from sneak attack. It's a distinctive stool. Small in diameter, soft but dries very hard, dark brown often near blackish and smells like a stink rat. It is a very distinct odor not like racoon. 
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