Carnivores in Aargau?

Over the Easter weekend, I roasted a suckling pig. The bones (2kg or so) ended up in the compost box, including a skull (around 500g I would guess).

Last night, I forgot to lock the compost bin, and this morning found it open with all the bones (and skull) gone.

This is in a garden where our dogs cannot enter, neither can other dogs. The skull I somehow think is too big for a cat to drag away, so a bit puzzled.

If London, I would have thought a fox... any ideas what it could be here? (Lenzburg)

Fox, lynx, wolf.....

Hedgehogs?

We need a hedgehog update!!

I suspect it hitched a ride on the UPS truck heading for Aargau. I haven’t seen it since.

Well it could be bloody anywhere except where it intended, if it went UPS 😂

Wolpertinger.

An enterprising badger.

You don't think there are foxes in Switzerland?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolpertinger

There are loads of foxes in Switzerland, it was almost certainly a fox.

Honestly didn't think we had foxes here - in London I would see them almost every evening, and definitely hear them during the mating season...

Must put up some motion activated cameras and leave some dog food out at night then!

It might have been the geranium police as bones don't belong in compost.

We have an ancient wolperdinger named, appropriately, Wolpi. I'll just go see if he's still hanging on the wall...

... and there I was thinking, from the thread title, that this would turn into an interesting discussion about styles of (human!) dietary measures and nutrition.

I have lived in Aargau near the Zurich Cantonal border for several years now on a farm. We have many electric fences, dog & small animal and the larger cow/alpaca kindof voltage electric fences. A clever fox will and can somehow get past them, they will find it. Hedgehogs? We have those too, but I don't think that is the responsible animal from the details of your story.

It was a joke, following on from a different thread https://www.englishforum.ch/daily-li...-hedgehog.html

Ah, okay. Well, I have a hedgehog or two on my property and they just seem to mostly eat grass and whatever else they eat without me seeing them. Thanks for the heads up, I am an oldie on the forum, but I don't read it enough to keep tabs on all the conversations.

hedgehogs don't eat grass- they are proper carnivores- worms, slugs, snails are the most common favourites.