Dead animals in garden, how?

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We've been hearing baby foxes in the garden for a couple of weeks now.

Last week I found a baby fox dead on our path. No sign of injury and looked perfectly healthy, except that it was dead. DH buried it as deep as he could to stop anything digging it up.

DD has just come in from the garden in a state because there is a head just outside the back of the house. I haven't inspected it closely but it's a small head, probably another baby fox. I was out there this morning getting rid of cat food and didn't see it then, and I've been sitting near the back windows pretty much all day.

Cats can obviously get into the garden but there are no dogs nearby. No people can get in without us seeing. A magpie was out there this morning eating the cat food but didn't go into the area where the head is.

Any idea what is killing these babies and how? How does just a head get this far up our garden? Would the mother kill them at this age?

It hasn't been debunked and there's still a disturbing number of dead and mutilated cats, rabbits and currently lots of foxes turning up all over the shop. The Met closed the investigation presumably because they don't have time/inclination. SNARL remain on the case.

@DianaPrincessOfThemyscira you may think they are nutters. I sadly came across a cat who matched the exact way the Croydon cat killer worked. Clean cut, no head, no tail, laid out perfectly.

That's grim.

MustardScreams you must be local to me. I thought he'd been released under investigation, not charged?

So SNARL are the ones that think there’s a cat killer about, traversing the country to randomly kill wildlife and pets.

Giving me a face doesn’t change my mind. As a rescue centre I’m sure they’re great.

FFS SNARL are not nutters! If they are then the vets who have looked at these cases are also nutters. The damage to the animals has been done with a blade and they have been placed for the owners to find them-ok msibmy with cats and rabbits as the foxes aren't owners.
OP I would get in touch with SNARL and give them what evidence you have. I know photos sounds gruesome but they may request them. They are based in Croydon area so can't just pop over.

*maybe no idea what msibmy is...

Maybe you should read up about SNARL Diana , you obviously haven't bothered.

Yeah ok.

I was on the last thread about this topic when the Met police decided to close their investigation, I read enough about what they thought then. Forgive me I haven’t read any additions since, which I believe was October?

Do I think there’s a serial cat/fox/animal killer about? No.

Do I think it’s possible that because of the publicity around this, now some people have decided to mutilate animals for shits and giggles? Possibly.

I think it’s far more likely that it’s other animals and cars that are causing this and that local hysteria is whipping people into a frenzy.

This sounds like the work of a mink/stoat/weasel. They often leave heads and they tend to come back regularly and take one or two a night once they've found a food source (happened with our hens and our vet said they took his barn cat's kittens too).