Domesticated Mammals
We are not fond of cats, and they are rightly blamed
for a lot of wild bird deaths. However, the cats in
this area tend to earn their keep
on the farms keeping down vermin, but even we were
surprised to see this black cat walking through the
night photo kit with a young
rabbit in it's mouth.
The same morning we found the remains of the rabbit
about 30m away being picked over by a carrion crow and
various other corvids.
We would normally have assumed this was a fox kill. The
day after you wouldn't have known anything had
happened.
The three images show what we assume is the same cat and rabbit. The lone Cat was taken around midnight 8 Mar 2004, The young rabbit running from something at 05:20 on 15 Mar 2004 and the rabbit meeting its end 17 minutes later.
