decapitated squirrel

[honeybunch]

This happened today and it upset me and my son who was visiting. The
cat was outside. We went out and found a headless squirrel in the
garden. I do have a peculiar neighbor but he has never done anything
his weird. I really dont believe my small cat caught a squirel by the
head, bit the head off, swallowed the head and then left the corpse
alone. The squirrel was unmarked except for the missing head. If
ever Snappy catches anything it is to play with. He usually brings the
catch into the house. This year he caught 2 butterflies. Last year
he caught 2 birds. He brings them in and usually they wind up flying
around the house. But this headless squirrel is scary. I cant
imagine him biting off the head and leaving the body. If he caught
it, it would not be by the head. Could a hawk have caught it and
dropped it? I am sorry to say that I think the neighbor caught it in
a humane trap, cut its head off, and threw it in my garden for a joke
or some insane reason. What else could it be? I dont see the cat
just biting the head off a squirrel and leaving the corpse with no
marks on it and not even hanging around it or dragging it in the
house. It was a ways from the house.

[AMUN]

"honeybunch" <doro...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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<ROTFLMAO>
I'm not sure what part I find funnier.

That you refuse to believe your cute little ball of fur could be totally
ruthless.
Or that you could sooner believe your neighbor can.

It's possible a hawk or owl dropped it, and equally possible the cat did it.
And I'll say it's even possible for the neighbor to have done it

While it's pretty rare that a cat takes down a squirrel, it does happen.
(usually squirrels are fast and agile enough to get away)
And unless the squirrel was small or your cat very large, a head is probably
enough of a feed at one sitting.

Ours regularly will drag home rabbits half their size, and (if undisturbed
for hours) eat them completely, starting at the tip of the ears, and only
leaving a puffball tail.
Sometime I have to go out and shovel the headless corpses into the trash

Nothing shocking, unless you let kitty watch "night of the living dead."

In that case those meows could be kitty talk for "BRAINS, I WANT BRAINS" and
you better sleep with one eye open. ;)

[Linda Boucher]

if i where you i would try to find out if your neighbour
did it or not...maybe he trying to tell you something
your cat could be next