Yotes or Cougar are my best guess. Looks like the attack happened 40 yards from my front door...buck was found dead about 30 yards from my bedroom. There is fur in the barbed wire where it had went through or got dragged through. Not sure if it was a fight between the deer and the killer(s) or just drag marks from it/them eating. Blood was all over the place in about a 20 yard circle.
I’m a light sleeper and often wake to coyotes howling/yipping in the distance...my dog is pretty vigilant as well and she was in her bed in my room and never alerted. Look at the missing front quarter and how much of the deer seemed to be missing, I lean towards a pack of yotes, but because the dog and I didn’t hear anything I tend to think lion.
Something killed one of my longhorn calfs last year.
We are overrun with coyotes. Lots of bobcats and foxes out here too. Many of the neighbors have seen mountain lions over the years. One neighbor saw a kudamundi go after his barn cat. Another neighbor swears up and down him and his wife watched a jaguarundi walk across the dirt road....and the next door neighbors saw it as well. Crazy stuff around here.
I’m a light sleeper and often wake to coyotes howling/yipping in the distance...my dog is pretty vigilant as well and she was in her bed in my room and never alerted. Look at the missing front quarter and how much of the deer seemed to be missing, I lean towards a pack of yotes, but because the dog and I didn’t hear anything I tend to think lion.
Something killed one of my longhorn calfs last year.
We are overrun with coyotes. Lots of bobcats and foxes out here too. Many of the neighbors have seen mountain lions over the years. One neighbor saw a kudamundi go after his barn cat. Another neighbor swears up and down him and his wife watched a jaguarundi walk across the dirt road....and the next door neighbors saw it as well. Crazy stuff around here.
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