strange find in a city park

[Mamertine]

I was out walking my dog on Wednesday morning in a city park. She discovered a small gut pile. About 2 feet away from the pile was a rabbit head. The gut pile seemed fairly fresh. Instantly I chocked it up to coyotes, there are some coyotes that live in my area and they eat rabbits. Shortly after I left the scene I realized that a coyote wouldn't leave a neat gut pile behind, and there would be a lot of fur scattered around a coyote kill, there was very little fur there.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that a person killed the rabbit and presumably ate it. Is there some other explanation that I'm missing? Mind you this is a large park about 20 or 30 acres of mowed grass in fairly heavily populated area.

 

[Texan Scott]

If i lived in a 20-30 acre city park, I'd snare and eat rabbits. I think I'd have the sense not to leave a head or a gut pile lying in sight, though.

 

[Creature]

Feral cat?

 

[LUCKYDAWG13]

i herd that the Chupacabra's are moving north now

 

[25cschaefer]

Most predators will eat the guts first, they are soft and nutritious.

 

[Pit4Brains]

Most predators will eat the guts first,

And they are the easiest to get to. No predator that I know of, except man would leave a gut pile..

 

[courtgreene]

Mamertine, how is the homeless situation in your area? I mean that not as an insult to the homeless, if one killed and ate a rabbit, good for that person for trying to make ends meet however they can. Also, not to sound like a racist, which I'm not, but in Minnesota there are a lot of Hmong (as there are here, but in greater proportion there) and culture may play into this.

 

[Mamertine]

I haven't seen any homeless in my area, there are a fair amount of immigrants mostly Somalian and some Hmong. I'm also guessing it's a cultural thing. I don't really care that someone's eating a rabbit. I don't see it different from me eating a deer or pheasant. I just found the discovery odd.

 

[XD 45acp]

VOODOO ritual !!! RUN!!!!

 

[bluethunder1962]

I was thinking the same thing if it was something wild they would have ate everything. My pitt bull ate a squrriel and started at the tail and didnot stop till it got to the head. DO you have a lot of homeless in the area?
XD 45acp so funny. He is not in new orleans though.

 

[bluethunder1962]

OOPS just saw my answer above. Sorry.

 

[Robert]

Had a cat at a place I work in college that would bring us the guts of a freshly killed field mouse every morning. Sometimes 3 or 4 of them. The cat was half wild so I am not sure it was bringing us "presents" or if it was just doing crazy cat stuff.

 

[788Ham]

Hmong wouldn't leave the gut pile either, too much good food going to waste.

 

[jrdolall]

Definitely human. I have never seen a wild animal leave the "guts' and they usually eat them first.

 

[tnxdshooter]

Bob cats

Will leave parts around to come back and feed on later. Especially the guts on a smaller animal as those are the most nutritious parts. Were they left under say a bush or some leaves or were they left just out in the open?


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