WTF ate my fish?

[neutralizer]

i live in the suburbs where there are no dumpsters... del mar/carmel valley is clean .

 

[nater]

gollum ate it

 

[Rufio]

tarzan did.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: gtsukada
here is a pic of the koi pond in my backyard.

Koi Pond

i'm betting that it was a nice big racoon. i've seem everything from racoons to heron's take fish in my backyard. i never thought i would see a racoonn trying to take fish, but sure enough one night i saw one. those things are not as cute and cuddely as you would think. the one i saw was probably pushing 50 lbs. friggin cow i tell you.

Wow, that's very nice!

 

[TheNinja]

Can't you identify any tracks around the pond? Do a little detective work, bird footprints will obviously look much different than mammal prints. My guess would be a raccoon. And they can live pretty much anywhere from holes in trees in the woods, to the drains in the streets of cities. And they can easily stay away from dogs b/c they are fairly smart and are good thieves.

 

[TechnoKid]

An amoeba?

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid
An amoeba?

I was thinking paramecium.

 

[AbsoluteParadigm]

A paramecium that big? Won't the surface-area to volume ratio be too low?

 

[IGBT]

Yep..Iam not far from the ocean so there's lots of ocean going big birds loafing around...

 

[Acanthus]

MichealD ate your fish. I saw him.

 

[eakers]

are they expensive fish?

maybe one of your neighbours stole it for their pond.

 

[neutralizer]

Neighbors hoping my fence, I think not, they'll get splinters.

 

[paruhd0x]

Hi, don't know how you've never seen a racoon in San Diego, I have lived here 19 years and have seen racoons at each of the 6 homes I have lived in all around San Diego County. They live underneath houses, in sewers, anywhere they can. They are amazing survivalists. I don't doubt it was a racoon.

 

[tboo]

Sounds like coons. My neighbor had a small decorative pond with giant goldfish in it-fish kept on disappearing. Finally discovered that the racoons were dining at his pond.

 

[bootymac]

It was me.

 

[ElFenix]

sorry. little lemon butter and i couldn't resist.

 

[JawaJedi]

Its amazing with all those fish you can tell one's missing. Nice pond btw, much nicer than my aunt's. If you live near wilderness its probably a raccoon. But it would seem to me that its a Heron still because I'm guessing a raccoon would leave at least part of the koi there wouldn't it? I mean it doesn't devour it whole bones and all right? A Heron or otehr bird would fly off with it though.

 

[neutralizer]

Whatever ate it took the body and left the head along side of the pond.