I think the injury on the front leg was from attempts to escape.
Check out the size of that paw.
Here is the business end.
You can see how close she came to pulling a chicken right through the side of the pen. Note how the mesh is bowed out and the staples at the bottom are almost pulled out of the wood.
Here are some assorted views.
Time will tell if I have any more of these to deal with.
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Cool Pics. Would make a great mount.
See Ya
We have a chicken thief too but haven't caught it yet.
Here kitty, kitty.....
I wonder if they taste like chicken...lol
Great kill. Did you catch her in the act?
Jimmy, I caught her returning to the scene of the crime. A hen had stuck her head through the wire mesh to peck outside and the cat grabbed her by the head. The cat couldn't quite pull her through the side of the pen so she ate what she could through the mesh. I wired the remains of the bird in the trap for bait and put it right next to the kill site and threw a bunch of the feathers and skin in and around the trap.
You can see the trap in the picture showing the damage to the chicken pen. It's the brown cage in the upper left corner of that pic. I took that pic after I had shot the cat and you can see her curled up in the trap.
I haven't lost any birds since then so I guess I'm ok until next time.
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