Big enough to take down a fully grown, 1000lb cow, with no other marks on the body....so the animal wasn't dragged or moved, meaning it died right there. All within 100 yds of the house, and the occupants heard nothing from either the animal in distress, the killer(s), nor the panicked animals in the rest of the herd.
To me, that speaks of a couple possibilities....since I doubt the animal would've succumbed peacefully while being attacked, AND it was big enough to provide at least some measure of resistance, I would think that it either died from some other, natural cause, and was scavenged later, or the occupants of the home are nearly oblivious, and probably wouldn't know it if a full blown marching band paraded through the pasture.....which gives me cause to wonder how many other details are missing from this picture.
