Last Saturday, we had a deer in our yard for the first time. We have many foxes and such around, but this was the first time we had seen a deer. Cool. A young buck. The next day, my wife woke up to find the front half of a fawn in the yard. In my flawed wisdom, I decided to let the carcass be until Monday morning, to give a chance for predators to come and claim it. This ended up traumatic for my wife, as just an hour later a doe came along and was licking and tugging at it, presumably trying to wake up her offspring. She came back a couple of times that day to do this, spending an hour each time trying. That evening, the foxes came and tried to pull it apart and take it. They apparently eventually succeeded. So what happened? All I can figure is that it was hit by a car that broke its spine or possibly tore it in two, and the foxes did the rest in terms of bringing it to my back yard. But we are on a dead end street in a subdivision. Where is the back half? Could it have been a larger predator? Some other event?
How many people in your neighborhood are vaccinated? I’d go ahead and start working on your apocalypse plan because the first ones should be turning around now
A competing predator tried to pull the one half one way, toward their territory. And the foxes eventually won, by pulling the entire thing to their territory, after running off the other predator in your yard. This is also a good time to mention that video cameras for outside are cheap as hell.
No wounds on the throat. And if coyotes move in, I don't think my foxes will stay. Those two seem to be mutually exclusive in territory.
I should say, there were no wounds of any kind except for being severed in half. Like the victim of an amateur magician.
I've walked up on deer bedding down in DC in Rock Creek Park. There are a lot of woodland animals around DC.
The house we just bought has so much wildlife around. It’s a neighborhood, but plenty of woods in the immediate area. I have seen deer and groups of 20-30 wild turkeys regularly. Even saw what I think was a Sandhill Crane a few months ago just chilling around the creek back behind our house, although I’m not 100% because I didn’t think they really came to this area.
