No, not that kind of furry.

I have three bird feeders in my yard. One is old and falling to bits and one is a recent gift that seems to be not only squirrel-resistant but also bird-resistant (although I may just need to try another type of bird food), so I haven't been filling it. A third fell apart recently, and I suspect a squirrel of helping to detach the stand from the base, spilling seeds all over the yard. I replaced that one yesterday, and the birds seem to like the new one.

I also refilled the old one yesterday, deciding it might as well serve its purpose until it actually fell to bits. This afternoon, I found it in this condition:



I thought it had just given died a natural death until I saw this on the ground:



It's all gray fur, no feathers and no blood. So, I ask those on my FL with far greater knowledge of natural science than I (that would be all of you), what happened here? Obviously, the replacement of the broken feeder with another that it couldn't access drove the squirrel to the old, decrepit one. But what next? Did one of those owls I hear hooting at night come along and snatch up the squirrel as it tried to raid the feeder? Did it get into a fight with a bird over custody of the sunflower seeds? Or did the stupid thing just fall in and lose a sizable chunk of fur trying to crawl back out?