Rabbit entrails - who's the culprit?

[slowworm]

you wont either mate,poachers were recruited by Churchill for his secret army aka auxiliary units, a chap i know locally is quite the woodsman,has been near trod on before now int dark by gamekeepers,i would imagine that the entrails were hid butt some critters dragged them out into view.

Indeed, they can be extremely devious ****, but it's not an area with abundant bunnies and there's plenty of other local areas were they are.

If it's an easier question then, apart from humans what would do what I described. Large semi-stray cats seems to fit the bill.

 

[EssexMonk]

unlike most humans, most animals eat the "soft bits" first IE liver lungs etc the belly is the easiest part to open. could a poacher have left the remains while traveling through on their way from a productive area?

 

[slowworm]

I had thought about that but it's not really on the way or to anywhere. More likely someone may have left the guts there on purpose but although not hidden they were not in an obvious place.

What about buzzards or owls, it is nearish a fence post and I know the local buzzards perch on them. Do birds gut animals, or eat most of their prey and drop the intestines?

 

[fishfish]

buzzards do drop the stuff they dont want ,but ive never seen big bits dropped just small stuff.

 

[santaman2000]

I'm thinking it was some form of rabbit ritual suicide; and the other rabbits hid the rest of the carcass.

 

[deeps]

have a look on youtube for speed paunch videos ?

 

[slowworm]

have a look on youtube for speed paunch videos ?

The one's where you squeeze until everything pops out? That wouldn't leave the tail behind.

I think the Druids would also stop rabbit ritual suicide.

All that's left today was a bit of large intestine, swollen by the rain to the size of a large sausage.

Perhaps the bunny has been gradually picked apart over a day or so and I stumbled upon work in progress?