posted 9 years ago
My sympathies, definitely an unpleasant thing to find.
Do you have any pictures of your cages? That's very odd how about the cages being one open/one closed yet both empty... as well as the dogs not reacting...
Do you have coons? I've had them take chickens from tractors which they can only get an arm into; if they can grab the chicken, they can usually pull it over, kill it, and deconstruct it as necessary to remove the parts. They'd also be the predator most likely to successfully open a cage...
'Theoretically this level of creeping Orwellian dynamics should ramp up our awareness, but what happens instead is that each alert becomes less and less effective because we're incredibly stupid.' - Jerry Holkins