Mark squatted by the body of the dog and examined it, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a pen and using it to examine the wounds. After a while he seemed to reach a conclusion.<br/><br/>“I would say without a postmortem it is only conjecture but never the less a reasonable conjecture.” He gestured to the two bullets, “They are what killed the dog, the head was removed afterwards judging y the lack of blood spray on the fur. Had the heart still been beating when it was removed the fur would be caked in blood and it is not.”<br/><br/>He stood after wiping the pen in the dirt and looked at the Inspector. “Rather an overkill to decapitate after death unless for some reason you expected the dog to come back to life regardless of the bullet wounds. Peasant superstition or?”<br/><br/>Mark left the question hanging in the air.<br/>