Back in the early 1990s it became necessary to provide police officers as well as rangers with some guide on what to look for if a kill they came across looked unusual. Most were familiar with what dog attacks looked like -the dogs also making a lot of noise as they got excited by chasing and attacking sheep was also a give away. However, non native cats were a different matter.
A typed sheet was sent out and some guidelines given (it saved a few dogs from being killed). By the late 1990s if a cat was suspected killing a deer or sheep it was becoming common practice to carefully skin around the neck area to look for teeth bites and snapped necks or punctured throats where a cat bit in to suffocate its prey.
Slightly tidied up fact sheet from, I think, 1999.
A typed sheet was sent out and some guidelines given (it saved a few dogs from being killed). By the late 1990s if a cat was suspected killing a deer or sheep it was becoming common practice to carefully skin around the neck area to look for teeth bites and snapped necks or punctured throats where a cat bit in to suffocate its prey.
Slightly tidied up fact sheet from, I think, 1999.
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