"Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. I think a coyote jumped our fence last night. There was a horrible yelp last night in our backyard (that woke me up) that I knew was an animal and when we got up this morning there was a rather large headless rabbit right by our bedroom window. The head completely gone...not sure what else could have done that around here, but a coyote. Our fence is only about a 4 foot tall, so I'm sure that a coyote could jump it if it really wanted to, but I just find it a little disturbing that it would come that close to my house. We aren't on the back of the neighborhood where there is open land behind us, there are homes on every side of us, as well as behind us. I never thought they would venture that close. I just wanted to let everyone know who might have small dogs outside at night."


My response should be.....?

Nm

What really confuses me is why a yote would eat just the head and leave his dinner

Richard Ramirez strikes again

The real comments are even better:

" I've seen them on my security cameras at night. They will kill your dogs and/or cats and not eat them but just leave them there. A little surprised about the rabbit not being hauled off."

That's definitely better than mine.

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MS13 has been doing this recently.

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So they've given up on the whole "headlights on bright" thing?

Maimed kills with no eating is more likely to be stray or feral dogs, which would have similar potential mobility. Coyote isn't impossible but they're not nearly as likely to waste effort, energy, and risk injury for no food reward. A feral dog may not be as practiced of a hunter but they still have an instinct to go for the neck.

MouthBQ98 said:

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Maimed kills with no eating is more likely to be stray or feral dogs, which would have similar potential mobility. Coyote isn't impossible but they're not nearly as likely to waste effort, energy, and risk injury for no food reward. A feral dog may not be as practiced of a hunter but they still have an instinct to go for the neck.

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Cat, owl or hawk.

Tell em it's a Dikfer

When you see headless, just go ahead and assume owl.