Excellent work, Tim. Reality, especially in the animal world, is often more gruesome than fiction.

I see the a-a-b-b rhyme scheme in your four quatrains. Interestingly enough, the rhythm you have chosen has a lilt and a gait that lends itself to implied humor. This is a part of anapestic meter that does not always appear on the surface. Short-short-long, when repeated, is the same kind of gait used by Dr. Seuss in his work.

This, in some ways, looks like a Far Side comic. So sorry if that was not the intent.

The poem is good. WRITE ON! Jay