bob cat and pig?

Several weeks ago, wife bought a pig to fatten up 40 to 50 lb. Went out to feed her Saturday and found her back torn up, ears and side of her head also torn up. Looks like a cat to me. Only pen dogs cant get to. Has anyone else had this happen and if so what does the carcas look like?

Bobcats here are pretty small, never heard of them taking anything over 10-15 lbs. I suppose if they are hungry enough? I can't imagine it wanted to stay in the pen long once it figured how big the pig is.

(quoted from post at 23:58:35 06/05/12) Several weeks ago, wife bought a pig to fatten up 40 to 50 lb. Went out to feed her Saturday and found her back torn up, ears and side of her head also torn up. Looks like a cat to me. Only pen dogs cant get to. Has anyone else had this happen and if so what does the carcas look like?

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Might be a cat. Some years back there were cats running lower Michigan for instance, that DNR tagged and released to "control" the deer population. DNR denied their existence at first, and certainly didn't own up to being the ones that did it. The cats were controlling more than deer. Small live stock, torn up and killed. One got on the back of a horse and tore it up pretty bad. A DNR guy showed up at the horse seen, on TV, said wasn't a cat, were wild dogs. Someone showed the DNR guy the claw pattern, asked how many dogs have 5 claws which was unexpected to the DNR guy. Dogs have 4 claws, one useless dew claw, not 5 usable claws like a cat. It was onlt after pictures and videos started making the news of the cats that didn't exist that DNR finally admitted to "introducing" them to keep down on the deer. They claim a 50 mile radius, so...good luck. And, they are chipped with GPS, so if you take one out, get its carcuss as far away from your property as possible. Into a river, wherever, but away from your property, or you will get a knock at the door. They have more rights on your property than you do.

Good luck.

Mark
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Bear?

The more I keep re-reading your post, the more I think it was a domesticated dog. Possibly, maybe even a coy dog. We trap for the fur market and have found that most wild animals don't kill for the thrill of killing. They tend to eat what they kill. Although, mink and skunk will wipe out chicken pens just for the thrill of killing. We have not seen that in the larger wild predators. Domesticated dogs and coy dogs will kill just for the sake of killing. JMHO

Could be a Coyote(s) as they attack the head and neck area domestic dogs go for the rear legs most of the time.Also could be a Cougar a bear would have carried it off

That's how we got mountain lions in central and eastern Nebraska.....State Game and Parks

Where does it state the MIDNR admitted to releasing cougars and they are microchipped?

I can't proclaim what killed your pig but dogs kill more livestock in North Texas than everything else combined. 90% of the time if you see it taking place,it's dogs that were laying in someone's yard the day before. Definatly one of those "S S & S" times because the owner will usualy call you a liar and threaten retaliation. I would support laws that put free roaming dogs without a collar bearing owner's name in same catagory as cyotes. Farthur south and west areas of state where sheep are plentiful,have no tolerance for unsupervised dogs so you wont see many.

That's how we got Coyotes in Ohio..Div of Wildlife released a Pair in each County...
They denied it until one was shot, with the Tag on it, in Marysville, Ohio..

Ron..

Could be a cat but I had my neighbors labs kill a 115 pound York gilt a few weeks ago. I'd beef up you fence and set up a trail cam and keep the shotgun loaded

I've heard about the Game and Parks releasing cats here in Nebraska. Also seen bobcat in western Iowa. Also remember seeing a mountain lion over 50 years ago, right here, so am thinking they never really left. Farms got further apart, rough ground goes to brush, good habitat.

all the cat attacks ive seen personally,have been pretty much as you descibe,cat bites the back of the neck and uses their claws to hang on.If you are trying to trap it,try hanging a old cd,or something shiney along with some bird feathers above the ground about three-four feet or so.Under it set a trap with a large jaw spread staked down well.Dont have to hide it very well just make sure its level and wont move.cats dont smell much,but a cat is a cat and they are always curious,so they come to inestigate the cd flashing in the sun,cant reach it so they step under it to try and jump to reach it.Works very well and its sort of a cat specific set because dogs and things will leave it be.Just set it where your dogs wont step in it.