Whose skull is this?

[hysop]

I’m pretty sure my dog killed it and ate it because I don’t know why else a skull of a carnivore would be present in my backyard close to my chicken pen.

it’s wrapped in a net. My dog tends to hide her bones in hay and any net I have laying on the floor (I know I really should pick up a bit).

Any ideas what animal skull this belongs to?

I don’t see any fur or other bones in my yard, but she could have left it out in a field and only brought back that head.

I just remembered that she did lose her collar a while ago, but I figured it got stuck on a fence since she likes crawling under them. Guess I’ll drive around to see if I see anything.

 

[fuzzyfarmer]

Looks like a dog skull to me, some kind of guard dog breed with a squashed-in nose like a mastiff or pitbull or bulldog.

 

[RooStar Chicken Gang]

Possibly a Chupacabra skull.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

So she killed another dog?!?!

Hopefully she just found a dead dog and ate it. Oh dear. I will go deworm her and check around the property if I see other remains.

I figured it was a coyote or fox.

Thanks everyone!

Canine is dog family including coyote, fox, domestic dog, wolf etc. Can you measure the skull? How wide and how long in inches? Looks like its been dead for a while.

 

[Geena]

I think that looks more like a pig's skull, by the way the teeth are set into it. And those longer teeth look more like tusks than canines.

 

[Painted Calls]

That's a pig skull.

 

[maceleneo]

Most likely a dog.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Possible gunshot wound to the right temple.

 

[HawaiiCoyote]

it's likely that your dog found this skull and then decided to hide it.

 

[fuzzyfarmer]

Thanks everyone! I’ll do some research and ask my husband. I do know we had a lot of strays years ago that killed some of our chickens, but not lately.

But okay if it’s been dead a while then phew my dog didn’t kill another dog, I hope.

That skull is nice and clean and sun-bleached. It looks like it's been outside for a while. But not a long-long time, probably not 5 years or something. And the net isn't all gross and filled with bits of decayed stuff, so my guess would be that your dog found it when it was fairly clean like in your photo, and hid it in the net. If that helps