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Originally Posted by matese  How big of an animal can a hawk pick up?
Large raptors, such as Red-tailed Hawks and Great Horned Owls, can attack and kill small pets. Dozens of inquiries about dogs and cats weighing anywhere from 6 to 60 pounds. There is no specific cut-off weight at which your pet's safety is guaranteed. |
They can't pick up over 12 pounds so yeah there is more safety in larger dogs sure they can mess them up but most of the time they don't just do that for the heck of it and it happens when they are trying to kill something to grab it. As terrible as this sounds I am lucky for many reasons but one of them being there are A LOT of rabbits on our property so they are going to go more for the rabbits then the dogs dressed in unnatural colors in a fenced in area that is not big enough for them to swoop in and out of.