[shaun]

you want a hob

[agapanthus]

Went to the lottie yesterday to dump all my chicken pooh in the compost bins. On my main path was a rat...dead. It was quite wierd tho'....both of the feet were intact, up to about the knee, complete with fur and pads etc. also was the tail....although this had been pulled through a gap in the fur/flesh of one of the legs making it look as though it had 3 legs :?  Also, the head was missing and the rest of the body was just bone...no flesh at all! What could have done this/ Any idea?

[WG.]

Went to the lottie yesterday to dump all my chicken pooh in the compost bins. On my main path was a rat...dead. It was quite wierd tho'....both of the feet were intact, up to about the knee, complete with fur and pads etc. also was the tail....although this had been pulled through a gap in the fur/flesh of one of the legs making it look as though it had 3 legs :?  Also, the head was missing and the rest of the body was just bone...no flesh at all! What could have done this/ Any idea?

Any decent veterinary will have your rat back on its feet in no time!    

Seriously though, I can just about tolerate rats when they are in that condition.  I have no idea what would have stripped a skeleton like that.

[muntjac]

sounds like its been dragged out of the compost bins and the flesh has rotted away it does that if they lay in water for long enough