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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

Reddit Animals

We do have a possum and a raccoon that live somewhere on the property. Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. And I could even see that being the case even with the lack of consumption as I've known cats that killed for sport but didn't eat the prey. And I have found one small dead garden snake in the street.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

I’ve written at length about the specific vulnerability of insular faunas and the catastrophic extinctions caused by the arrival of rats, mice, ferrets, cats and possums (amongst others), here in New Zealand fully half the pre-human bird species were lost.