Once, it's a mystery. Twice, it's a message.

[resonant]

OK, there were two more headless baby bunnies on the lawn yesterday. I buried them in the same hole with the first one and its head. I know it's probably a dog, but it's still beginning to creep me out.

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[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, okay, that's disturbing.

[carta.livejournal.com]

yikes.

[carolyn-claire.livejournal.com]

You're probably right about it being a dog--they do that. He's found a warren and is going through them.

[daylyn.livejournal.com]

Ew. Could there be overcrowding of the rabbit warren? I know (and this is really gross, btw) that mother rabbits will... (really gross)... eat their newborn young if the conditions are too crowded.

Perhaps they're discarded plot bunnies. Okay... I'll just stop while I'm ahead.

[stillane.livejournal.com]

I don't know. In my experience, it's more often a cat that goes for the reverse-Godfather act. *shrug*

[vickita.livejournal.com]

Aieeeee!!!

Yeah, probably a dog, but ghastly, nonetheless. Gah.

[florahart]

...Ew.

I assume you are not pregnant; my cat used to bring me daily headless birds when I was, years ago. Though, of course, the cat would want credit:

Cat: *proud*
Me: OH GOD STOP IT
Cat: WTF? PRESENT.
Me: *whimper*
Lather, rinse, repeat.

[akite.livejournal.com]

You haven't piss off anyone named Alex lately, have you?

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

That's my experience too. At least they aren't being left in the dining room ... for you to step on ... in bare feet.

*shudders at memory*

yeah, yeah, mighty hunter, I get it.

[atdelphi.livejournal.com]

I would actually guess it's a cat. Dogs tend to go for the bodies, and take them away to bury if they're saving them for a snack later. For some reason it's cats who often take the heads and leave the bodies when the two, uh, separate.

[skuf.livejournal.com]

I'mma say cat, too, but either way, it's not too pleasant O_o

[reedfem.livejournal.com]

I'll go with cat also. Beheaded birds on the lawn. Ewwwww.

That or my plotbunnies have given up on me and are committing suicide over at your house...

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

Hee! So much collective experience with critter heads on your list.

Alas? I too have had similar experiences. squirrel heads mostly. and gopher heads. gifts from my cats.

Although the plot bunny comments are disturbingly humorous.

(your flist is a strange and unusual place ;)

[mzcalypso.livejournal.com]

The message is it's spring, the prey animals are plentiful, and you have a cat who's hunting for sport rather than food. If you've got a neighbor who lets his/her cat out, put the corpses on their doorstep.

Ever read "The Cats of Thistle Hill" by Roger Caras? Wonderful book, he was the guy who was President of the ASPCA and did color commentary on the big dog shows.. he & his wife had a farm and basically made heaven for any stray animals who wandered by. But he did have one cat who expressed his gratitude with 'wee gifties' of the sort you describe. And humorist Roy Blount had a cat that left him a rabbit-head right in the middle of his floor.

You need to let that anonymous donor-cat know that nobody likes a show-off...

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Possibly you have a bunny Michael Myers or Jason Vorhees?

[betagoddess.livejournal.com]

Yikes! That IS creepy. Our old dog once killed a rabbit, but he buried it in our garden.

Maybe there's an owl around at night?

[kelliem.livejournal.com]

People seem to have had the opposite experience of cats than mine-- my cats have always taken the body and left the head, not vice versa. I think most animals do, as the head is the hardest part to eat. /icky

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

That's odd. Skunks will do that to chickens -- kill, take the heads, leave the carcasses (extremely freaky if not downright alarming the first time you see a henhouse full of decapitated corpses) -- but I haven't heard of them doing it to rabbits.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

My father's old cat, Judas, used to bite the heads off my sister's rabbits. Sometimes just the top of the head, leaving the brain exposed and the rabbit alive.

[bipagan.livejournal.com]

I'm telling you, it's the Immortals. Squirrels are their Watchers. It all makes sense now.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It really is. I'm just glad I wasn't eating any meat today.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[nodding and shuddering]

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

In fact, I found the hole that leads down to the tunnel. Something had pulled out a hunk of dried grass mixed with gray bunny fur, which made me feel so bad for the mother bunny who had put so much of her fur into this whole project!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

hee -- I've certainly got some plot bunnies that show no evidence of any brains.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Huh. Our cats don't go outside, so I don't know what their hunting personalities would be like. I'd imagine there'd be fewer rabbits who loved our yard.