what would do this

[bowhunternw]

I had a similar experience a few years ago, only I was the one that killed the deer. I couldn't find much for a blood trail that night so I ended up coming back in the morning. Picked up good blood and ended up walking cirles around the deer a few times, it was completely coverd with leaves and grass. The hindquarters were eaten and a small portion in the front. Maybe a good thing I ended the night search or might have had more than I was expecting.

As for the neck I think that is how most predators go for the kill.

[dmichaelm]

Classic vampire behavior.

[lawdog]

Chupacabra! The DNR released two pairs 3 years ago, I saw it on the onion!

[lichen fox]

I would have to say cougar or bobcat as well, we have seen this also a few years back in the area we hunt in nw mn...that same year my brother and a couple of neighbors did spot a cougar in the area...as for bears, most of them should have been hibernating by the time deer season rolled around and they typicly don't prey on adult deer for the simple fact that they can't catch them...the most common time bears predate on deer is in the spring and that is mainly on newborn fawns...and perhaps some dead deer that didn't make the winter...as for cougars in mn...the dnr does acknoledge that they "move through or around" in mn...they just haven't documented any "breeding population"....

[DonBo]

I've had coyotes cover a deer of mine just like that.

I believe the deer shown here was shot first, look at the foamy blood from it's nose/mouth area. A classic sign of a deer shot through the lungs. Probably someone hit this deer and couldn't find it, or saw it was just a fawn and left it.

I think if a mountain lion or bear was involved, it would have eaten much more of it and probably drug it into the woods to better hide it.

[Cubbie]

hilarious, Grum!!!!

[BuckmasterG]

I saw a show on TV a while back about some kids in Colorado who stumbled on a similar mystery. Turned out to be ManBearPig. It was verified by a well respected, high ranking government official.

(sorry, just couldn't resist)

Yup, classic Sasquatch

[pikerliker]

I would just about guarantee you it was a cougar. That is exactly how they kill (bite to neck either breaking the neck or suffocating the animal) and what they do with an animal that they have killed (hiding it by covering it with debree). Deer are also their primary food source. There are cougars in MN but the DNR isn't releasing them. They don't need to. They wander over themselves from the Dakota's usually young males looking for mates and their own territories. A bear may occasionally kill a deer but it would more than likely do it with a blow from it's paw breaking it's back or neck.

~piker

[Ufatz]

Yup, classic Sasquatch

[pikestabber]

It has to be true lep, I read it on the Internet.

"The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln

[duckster]

Saw one like that last year up here, kill was covered up. Thought it was bear but it was Nov and the bears were all denned up. Turned out to be a Lynx.

Duckster

[Acemac]

I used to know a black lab/farm mut that would do this to a few deer a year. he was well know for being seen from across the hay feild carring a hind quater from a fresh kill.

Nice dog though strangly enough just had a taste for venision.

[Beast26]

Based on the size of the neck wound I would guess it was one of those killer beavers running around the northland.

[GFNER]

Werewolf.Did you happen to see any naked strangers wandering nearby?

[creepworm]

Barry Badgernath

[gopher_nation]

Was this in the Sartell area? Seems like a mountain lion kill to me. More and more of the big cats passing through. Know of trailcam pics of one in Grey Eagle and Royalton from this summer and fall.

[jabug]

park rapids area