Rabbit predators question (1 Viewer)

El Annie

Phew..............

• May 11, 2003

• #1

What creature would skin rabbit to the bone but leave it's feet intact?? In this vacinity we have fox, badger, mink, stoat and I'm told the odd otter but I haven't seen one...............


Annie

 

Michael Frankis

conehead

• May 11, 2003

• #2

Man?

Could also be Badger, possibly

Michael

 

seb_seb

Well-known member

• May 11, 2003

• #3

dont know annie...but would be great to find out. I doubt the "weasel" family(dont know name of that bunch"

 

Nina P

Nina

• May 12, 2003

• #4

Hi El Annie, I have cats that kill and eat rabbits, they usually start at the head, and leave the feet, or sometimes only half eat them but the fox and magpie are not averse to finishing off the leftovers, and the buzzard has been known to take the carcase away to its post. I think badgers eat all of the rabbit too, but don't know if they skin it first, Nina.

 

MikePearson

Well-known member

• May 12, 2003

• #5

Strange one. As an ex-rabbit shooter meself, I would gut them in the field but finish the job at home. As described, it sounds exactly like what's left after skinning for the pot except the missing head. In my experience, humans don't usually have a use for a rabbit's head.
When I was a kid we had a cat and she used to leave a rabbits head trophy on the doorstep quite regularly. I dont know what she did with the rest of it though.

Mike

 

El Annie

Phew..............

• May 13, 2003

• #6

More Rabbit bits in field tonight.....

Hi all, yet more legs in the field tonight and the ducklings have all gone from the mill race, also a lot of empty duck eggs scattered about..............

The plot thickens..........

Annie

BTW I understand that Badger skin the Rabbit first, did think at one time that we had a sett, in fact I think we do have a sett but it's definitely not occupied by Brock, maybe Mr Fox is using it in his absence!!

 

dylan

Well-known member

• May 14, 2003

• #7

I've got a rather gruesome photo of a Rabbit with it's top half missing, there were 2 Buzzards closeby so I presume it was the remains of their lunch.
Whatever it is Annie, it must be hungry.