I feel really rather ill

[Newbie]

Yesterday evening just as it was starting to get a bit dusky i thought i'd take a walk down the garden & pick a few veg for dinner. So i picked a mega courgette, a few climbing french beans, some tomatoes and finally moved on to the dwarf French Bean bed. I'd picked over the majority of the plants when something caught the corner of my eye. I looked closely & saw something brown semi burried in the soil, sort of sat into a shallow hole but not covered. I though to myself that it must be one of the dried sunflower heads that the squirrel has taken from the patio as it often burries bird nuts etc in my patch. So i gave it a poke with my seceturs only to find that it was A SEVERED RABBITS HEAD!

It has quite put me off my French Beans now!

[Nicos]

Oh dear...yuk eh?
Would a fox eat the body and leave the head- maybe for later???

I'm presuming it was a brown wild bunny you found???

[Newbie]

Yes looked like the wild type, i presume it was a fox as i don't think there would be anything else around here big enough to kill & carry it. Our dog (Lab/Staffie cross) would be but she's never out on her own long enough to carry out such a task! We do have Sparrowhawks etc around here but i would assume they are too small and don't dig very well! At least Mr Fox was considerate enough to not damage any of my plants!

[zazen999]

It might be a local thing, but last year we found the front half of a kitten in our garden. We had heard some pretty loud cat screaming the night before...but our garden is not next to our house and it was too far away to see what was going on.

We buried the poor thing where we found it......and looked out for 'lost kitten' posters but found none so no idea whose it was, and no collar either.

[vicky]

I'm afraid I often get a rabbit's head and paws left for me from my cats.
One of the cats had to have an enema at the vets last year as he had a 'blockage' from too much rabbit! (serves him right too!)

[Newbie]

Could a cat kill a rabbit? We have a cat from 2 doors away regularly visit my veg patch to use the surrounding bark paths as a toilet.

[SlugLobber]

Some cats do hunt rabbits, but it could equally have been a fox. I used to find rabbit pelvis remains in my field shelter, from the local foxes. Cheeky buggers were using my stable as a dining area!

Can't say finding a bunny head would put me off my french beans, though. I'm stubborn like that, lol

[janeyo]

What a horrible thing to find!

One of our cats brought a (large and thankfuly dead) rabbit home once through the cat flap). It was left disemboweled on the kitchen floor. Luckily I was asleep upstairs and OH dealt with it. He then took a picture and left it as my screen saver on the puter so I could share the experience too...

[Nicos]

We have a friend who , many years ago, had a ginormous, unfriendly tom cat who heaven help you if you sat in his chair!!

Nightly he would dump a dead hare or bunny on the foot of the bed and chew his way through it ( I think I'd have closed my bedroom door)...one day he turned up with the next door neighbours dead Terrier which he's clearly killed and brought back to his owners as a gift!

So yup...for some cats, a bunny is no problem to catch and kill!

[SarzWix]

I opened the back door yesterday to find a squirrel the cat had left as a present. I assume he couldn't fit it through the cat flap! He regularly brings home rabbits, and sometimes rats. Yukk.

[ginger ninger]

My cat brings me rabbits home but there normally road kill, even though he is big enough to catch one, he also brought me a pigeon once, that was fun watching him try to drag it through the cat flap...But not for the pigeon

[Two_Sheds]

Could a cat kill a rabbit?

Oh yes. My auntie's cats used to bring in bunnies from the field, and just leave the hindquarters on the carpet ... it looked like the bunny was trying to burrow into the Axminster

[seasprout]

one day he turned up with the next door neighbours dead Terrier which he's clearly killed and brought back to his owners as a gift!

The cat bought home a DEAD DOG....???!!!!

... it looked like the bunny was trying to burrow into the Axminster

Ha ha ha ..... It's not funny....but it soo is...!

[janeyo]

Oh yes. My auntie's cats used to bring in bunnies from the field, and just leave the hindquarters on the carpet ... it looked like the bunny was trying to burrow into the Axminster

lol.

Our neighbours cat years ago (a fantastic half siamese evil thing), once brought home a fox! Not sure if the fox was dead when he found it...

[Rocketron]

I find it astounding that so many of you don't realise how successful cats are as predators. In a previous life, I had a cat that kept a Pit Bull Terrier out of our garden.