Look what I found in my yard today!!!!!

[chixie]

better to be safe than sorry

 

[Mr chicken dude]

I am just putting in my two cents here as I have been up in the hills most all my life...
Brandi Baby 23 That fox definitely has somthing wrong with it eithier rabid or just has some type of disease

 

[Happy Chooks]

Is it possible your dog de-squeaked the squeaky toy?

 

[kartking22]

I suggest that it may be the swine flu. H1N1. No one knows exactly who it affects and if it really exists. Let's scare the chicken growers into thinkng that your fox died from H1N1 viruses. Who's to say that it wasn't affected?

 

[Davis5454]

Maybe the chickens ganged up and scared it to death...

 

[b.hromada]

What about distemper? I know that the foxes around here several years ago all died because of it. They have since replenished themselves. Just a thought.

 

[Lensters]

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This one is getting my vote. It is in way too good of shape to have died of a disease (not saying it might not have one, but it died too quickly to have been from disease). The amount of trauma appears to be minimal so I think that a run in with a vehicle or unlikely. Large cats kill with a bite on the back of the head or base of the skull so you would have seen a hole and some blood. Small canines would have gone for the throat and while there is some wetness and matting there it appears there was much more at it shoulders. So I'm guessing this guy was picked up and shaken to death. That is the method of larger canines.

 

[Daisygirl]

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This one is getting my vote. It is in way too good of shape to have died of a disease (not saying it might not have one, but it died too quickly to have been from disease). The amount of trauma appears to be minimal so I think that a run in with a vehicle or unlikely. Large cats kill with a bite on the back of the head or base of the skull so you would have seen a hole and some blood. Small canines would have gone for the throat and while there is some wetness and matting there it appears there was much more at it shoulders. So I'm guessing this guy was picked up and shaken to death. That is the method of larger canines.

I second that.
So glad there are no foxes, coyotes or snakes in NZ...

- - that would make some very dead chickens of mine...

 

[Tala]

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This one is getting my vote. It is in way too good of shape to have died of a disease (not saying it might not have one, but it died too quickly to have been from disease). The amount of trauma appears to be minimal so I think that a run in with a vehicle or unlikely. Large cats kill with a bite on the back of the head or base of the skull so you would have seen a hole and some blood. Small canines would have gone for the throat and while there is some wetness and matting there it appears there was much more at it shoulders. So I'm guessing this guy was picked up and shaken to death. That is the method of larger canines.

That gets my vote as well.

 

[that_crazy_lady]

I'm with the last three. thats what all the possums and coons my dog has killed looked like in the end. and once I get there he will hardly look at them, let alone touch it.

edited to add if you want the vet to check your dog out, go for it