We have seen several adult rabbits in my wife's many flower gardens having a buffet meal. She just moves towards them, and the leave our yard. I have to assume one litter of bunnies was born recently in the neighborhood, and a dumb bunny decided to explore our yard. Fatal choice.
Reuben had been circling our storage building, and that is usually my early warning system that a mouse is under there. I checked my traps,
just like a mountain man and no mouse.
He has helped catch and dispose of several mice over the years.
We learned that he will go for a dog bone treat and spit out the mouse for me to buy it in the compost. Or, as we sometimes call it, take them to the train station.
We had a 6 foot bull snake die in our back yard, likely from eating a poisoned mouse that someone else's yard. No way would I use poison. That snake was burred at the train station as well. It is amazing that they just vanish completely. We dig up the compost to use in her gardens, and never see any sign of the bones. The worms must me hungry.
When I dug in just a little to bury the bunny, the compost was just crawling with large squirming worms.