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Today I took my dog out walking in the woods near a state park and after a while, I saw him sniffing at something and he wouldn't leave it. I finally walked over there before he rolled in it or started eating it and when I do..I look down and I see a couple deer head..then a few more..I count them and there are 10 in all. Nothing else with them, no body, no paws and no entrails, just the head whacked off right behind the head almost like they were ripped off though, not clean cuts

anyone else know what that could be about?

usually its the other way around you find bodies no heads
is it some kind of ritual?

FIDO (Forget It Drive On) wrote:Sounds gross!

Who knows, maybe grizzly (biggdowgg) came out of hibernation early!

hmmmmmmmmm like a yeti came and got them?

could have been a pack of wolves or something like that. maybe you should have gotten some pics and took them to the wildlife folks in you area

Sounds like some hungry Tigers

Maybe one of the local deer butcher shops dumped their trash there

MOTHMAN !!!!

Could be poachers. You really should contact the Div. of Wildlife, though.

Well, I'll have a photo of it by Tuesday, so, be warned, it's going be a gross photo

i would say somebody killed the deer (be it legal or poached) and was only interested in the meat. if that were the case, the lack of feet and entrails is a little puzzling but that's my two cents. my next guess would also be the mothman

Brutus8907 wrote: the lack of feet and entrails is a little puzzling

Possums etc. will eat an entire pile of entrails overnight and dogs, coyotes etc. will carry the feet and legs off to chew on.

Yeah but why wouldn't they bother the heads too then? you'd expect them to have at least been scattered. The way it appeared, it look as if they had been in a box and dumped out. Three of them were so close in the pile I had to separate them to count them. Some were very young too, very small heads.

There was a lot of meat still attached to the heads, the heads were also in very good condition, the eyes still were clear so they couldn't have been dead for long. I think I'll contact the fish and wildlife dept on Monday and report it but I won't claim it was the Mothman....

then again, some might just want to be able to continue to feed their pet possums and might have poached to get the deer for free feed?

kantuckyII wrote:Today I took my dog out walking in the woods near a state park and after a while, I saw him sniffing at something and he wouldn't leave it. I finally walked over there before he rolled in it or started eating it and when I do..I look down and I see a couple deer head..then a few more..I count them and there are 10 in all. Nothing else with them, no body, no paws and no entrails, just the head whacked off right behind the head almost like they were ripped off though, not clean cuts

anyone else know what that could be about?

I would definitely contact someone, like your local DNR agent. That's freaky. Sounds like someone who processes deer on their own that dumped the heads to get rid of them. Probably someone that also kills way above the limit, too. Thank goodness it wasn't around my house or that beast of a dog of mine would have dragged them all in to the back porch. I'm used to an occasional leg or two but ten heads would have been a shocker when I opened the door.

Better keep your dog locked up when 'Possum Pete' is in the area!

He's big enough to drag him and the possum in.

but could you imagine finding THAT on your doorstep?

kantuckyII wrote:but could you imagine finding THAT on your doorstep?

I don't know....I might have to get rid of the dog if it carried the "cutie pie" carcass in.

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BigOrangeOne wrote:

Brutus8907 wrote: the lack of feet and entrails is a little puzzling

Possums etc. will eat an entire pile of entrails overnight and dogs, coyotes etc. will carry the feet and legs off to chew on.

aaah, a fine point.

but...why were the heads not scattered? they all had meat on them, brains and the eye balls yet none were disturbed..or moved..clumped together they were.

kantuckyII wrote:but...why were the heads not scattered? they all had meat on them, brains and the eye balls yet none were disturbed..or moved..clumped together they were.

Sounds like the opening line of a Stephen King novel.