This beaver was completely submerged and trap checked within 18 hours….actually (no offense Cathryn) thinking otter.

Sure it's not a renegade piranha? Good grief!

Never saw that before!

Turtle maybe.

I would guess something smaller than otter, attacked the thiner areas and around the vent. Suggests a smaller mouth I would think otter would just tear at the sides if at all

Thats a good hatter.

We don't have big snappers like you guys back east do.

If you look closely at the shoulder pretty big chunks taken out. I would have considered coon damage except it was completely submerged about 4-5 ft deep and in a fair amount of current.

Mink damage in my experience is different, they drill a small hole in the chest and go for the organs.

Turtles is all I can think of

We have some pretty aggressive painted and slider turtles around here that could do that. Some of them have serrated beaks on them.

Got any big eels there, or big catfish maybe?

I have had that happen several times trapping through the ice (one pond in particular). The damage was nearly identical. Crawdads is my best guess, but no direct evidence

I was just doing some reading and it turns out that snapping turtles are starting to show up in Oregon waterways as an invasive species. That could be the critter that did this.

Bp, we seem to be getting a few turtles, there was three turned into ODFW in Springfield this summer I think. This one I turned in. It was 28 pounds I think. I got it in Harrisburg. They don’t know where or how they got here. One was full of eggs. Not sure they can survive the cold here though.

Western Wildlife Services

Interesting stuff. I learn something new every once in a while.

I’d say you have at least one.

They apparently live in places a lot colder than western Oregon. I had no idea they were here.

I caught one around here 30 years ago.

He killed every half-grown duck in the pond that he was in.

I'm guessing crawdads, seeing how they started on the thinner skinned parts. Throw a crawdad trap in there, I'll bet it's loaded with big ones.

Something was hungry