What creature would have done this?

[Magyars]

Found this next to the wood pile about 150 yards from the house.
There were tufts of hair all around....head was missing and right leg torn from the body.
My guess is a rator, probably an owl. No obvious tracks. The dogs have left a few over the last few days.

 

[Expat]

Weird they took the head…
I might go with a raptor of some type also.
cat would have drug it under cover I think.
yote would have eaten it.

 

[INP8riot]

Chupacabra. It only needed the blood! Seriously though, that's weird.

 

[Lpherr]

Looks like little bunny FooFoo got bopped on the head.

 

[Wolfhound]

I would guess an owl. We lost some ducks to an owl and the heads were always gone.

 

[El Conquistador]

Maybe a bear was seeing if the bunny had trouble with poo sticking to his fur and his head got stuck.

 

[COOPADUP]

Per the inter webs: Many species provide insects to their young in the early stages and whole rodents once the chicks become large enough. Spotted owls rip off the heads of their prey so that digestion and owl pellet production are easier for the chicks

 

[d.kaufman]

 

[Magyars]

Maybe a bear was seeing if the bunny had trouble with poo sticking to his fur and his head got stuck.

So your telling me that there is a bear around here with a rabbits head sticking out of his butt?

 

[Magyars]

Per the inter webs: Many species provide insects to their young in the early stages and whole rodents once the chicks become large enough. Spotted owls rip off the heads of their prey so that digestion and owl pellet production are easier for the chicks

I think this means they feed everything but the head to their young...seems like wrong time of year....and everything but the head was leftbehind

 

[Lpherr]

So your telling me that there is a bear around here with a rabbits head sticking out of his butt?

Wouldn't that be, having a hair up your ass?

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Post #3. Clearly a chupacabra.

 

[El Conquistador]

So your telling me that there is a bear around here with a rabbits head sticking out of his butt?

I live in Delaware county also and yeah I have seen stranger things around here

 

[DragonGunner]

Per the inter webs: Many species provide insects to their young in the early stages and whole rodents once the chicks become large enough. Spotted owls rip off the heads of their prey so that digestion and owl pellet production are easier for the chicks

Wrong time of year for chicks though.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Wrong time of year for chicks though.

Yeah, summer is the best time of year for chicks. The clothes are skimpier.

 

[Dholcomb]

Looks like the work of a poacher to me. Likely one in training. Didn’t get the buck memo.

 

[patience0830]

Wouldn't that be, having a wild hair up your ass?

FTFY

 

[WebSnyper]

FTFY

Wouldn't that be wild hare?

Sorry, Denny'd

 

[Bugzilla]

Illegal alien?

 

[blain]

The only owl predation I've actually witnessed was owl on skunk, 13 yards from my back door.
I was walking back in the house at night and noticed the skunk 13 yards from the back door.
My wife as leashing up the dog to take him out. I told her to watch out for the skunk at the edge of the driveway.
She went out and immediately came back in. She said there wasn't any skunk, but something else by the drive.
Since only a minute or two had past since I warned her of the skunk, of course I had to let her know she didn't know what she was looking at.
I popped out the back door and didn't see a skunk. But I did see a large owl standing in the same spot where the skunk was before. I didn't see any black from the skunk, so I figured the owl's weight was pushing in down.
Next morning I go out to inspect the scene. No blood, no fur, no skunk and no smell. It looked like a clean kill and removal.

It seems odd that an owl would have killed the bunny, yet only taken the head.
UNLESS that was one Bad Owl, that wanted to send a message to the neighborhood.