what happened to my cats please help!!!!i found only fur

heatherhavens18 · Coal Joined: Aug 09, 2008 Posts: 1

i went camping over last weekend and when we came home two of five cats were gone. yeaster day we foung only fur and not just a little bit but every last piece of fur from both cats any ideas what animal could have done this there was noooo blood what sooo ever and one bone both cats were old one 18 one 12 can any one help me please any ideas let me know.

NTBKtrader · Intermediate Crude Joined: Oct 19, 2004 Posts: 605

If you don't feed them enough some cats eat eachother!

jbrovont · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jun 16, 2006 Posts: 701

Aww

I'm sorry. I have kitties and that's really sad that you lost a couple.

As far as what animal may have killed them, depending on your location, it may have been coyotes - they'll eat just about anything, fur and bones sometimes. If you were gone for a few days, any number of scavengers could have cleaned up after something else too.

pstarr

Here in Humboldt Co. mountain lions prey on domestic cats. One was living under a home right in Arcata. After the thing was killed remains of neighborhood cats were found down there. Confused

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kpeavey · Expert Joined: Oct 04, 2004 Posts: 1323

sounds like the work of an owl or a teenager. too bad.

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ProudFossil · Heavy Crude Joined: May 26, 2008 Posts: 101

HawkWatch has a viewing post on the mountain by us. Last year they saw a nest which looked like it might be a great horned owl's nest. One of them climbed the tree and recovered the 'garbarge' in the nest for analysis. It was a greath horned owl. And they found 50+ small dog and cat collars in the nest. The closest real community is probably five miles away.

Petropest · Coal Joined: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 15

If you found every last bit of fur it might be people who did this. An animal will tear into the innards first, not skin the beast.

smallpoxgirl · Moderator Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 6477

Coyotes are also a pretty common predator of house cats.
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Leanan · News Editor Joined: May 20, 2004 Posts: 4582

I'm sorry you lost your cats. It would help if you said where you were (in general). But I agree with SPG - coyotes are a likely suspect. Or even dogs.

The fact that you found fur, no blood, and only one bone is probably just natural decomposition. Flies/maggots consume the blood and much of the flesh, scavengers may take away the bones. It can be surprisingly fast - yes, even just a weekend - especially if the weather is warm.
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Here in Wyoming, stray/loose cats are considered predators and are dispatched at will. I used to have hundreds of songbirds in the cliffs overlooking the house... then an abandoned housecat moved into the area and would spend the night-time hours locating nests and slaughtering the occupants.

I pondered over what caliber medicine to use on the cat... finally settled on .22 magnum. There was a bit of fur here and there after I tossed the carcass into the burn barrel.

neocone · Heavy Crude Joined: Sep 23, 2006 Posts: 257

Owl are bad, or falcons... but this one sounds like a bobcat or mountain lion.

A falcon tried to grab my kitty when she was young. She had claw marks on her lower back so probably was too heavy to lift. Get her to the vet and had to drip hydrogen peroxyde on her butt for 2 days and she was miawwwing loud. She got in shape and was always running belly the ground looking up in open spaces ever since.

smallpoxgirl · Moderator Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 6477

pstarr

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Pstarr
Thanks for the idea, I plan on putting out owl boxes to combat cats.

Petropest · Coal Joined: Mar 08, 2007 Posts: 15

Rain could have washed the blood away. Bobcat, coyote, wolf, dogs, could be anything.