I found big tufts of fur laying close to my cabin. I followed the tufts of fur until I found this skeleton. I never did find the head. I don’t know if the coyotes or a mountain lion did it.
Sometimes the coyotes will move close to my cabin with their “Yaaaa Hoooo! Yip yip yip yiping.” Once when they where really close, I went outside and yelled, “Quiet!” But they kept on yipping. So I stood on the hill and imitated them and they stopped. The next night they moved farther away. Up close they sound like a bunch of drunk red necks.
What kind of animal was that? How big?
It was a deer. I know it’s a deer because one of it’s hoofs was left. You can see it in the upper left hand corner. There is a lot of fluffy fur strewn around; I didn’t realize deer had such fluffy fur.