Foxes

[tamborine]

They're very hungry - watch out.

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[wildwood]

I know it goes against the grain, but if people refrained from feeding and leaving scraps accessible to foxes they wouldn't breed so much and would eventually retract to the bush.

[friedgreentomato]

so they are doing as nature intended!!!

what is your point tambo?

[doctordb]

how do you know it was a fox? and don't forget humans kill and eat more deer than any other predator in this country.

[Mosaic]

Just to emphasise Dr B's point - sweet little pet doggiewogs soon revert to ancestral type and often inflict this kind of damage. Tambo - do you know beyond doubt that a fox did this? Just a thought.

[RiskyBiscuit]

Flipping humans!

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I wonder if we stopped feeding them they wouldn't breed so much and would retreat back into the trees? ;p

[Chipchopper]

I've seen this type of mutilation before, it's often done deliberately by nasty people with so called "status dogs"

[tamborine]

piccy on my land y'day & NOT dogs. Fo xes go for smaller prey here & this is unusual.

[FredPuli43]

Of course, we don't know whether a fox found the animal dead or alive. I have dumped deer, (killed, incidentally, by my dogs), on the farm and the foxes soon dismantled the corpse.

[Barmaid]

May not have been foxes that ate it.

If the deer had been hit by a vehicle and subsequently died there, any animals could have had a go at it. Foxes, badgers, rats, cats, crows etc

[Old_Geezer]

Nature is cruel by our standards. I have to go along with those who see this as natural, if unfortunate. At least it had half a rabbit before it decided not to overeat. Perhaps it'll bring a mate next kill and not waste any.

[wildwood]

I believe it is a small deer, OG.