Is there any reason to think cattle "mutilation" is unnatural?

I'd like to know what countries other than America have a problem with cattle mutilation?

If I google "cattle mutilation Australia" the majority of sites are about dehorning and castration.

Or are aliens (or whatever wacky thing is supposedly doing this) selective about the nationality of the cows they carve up?

There are too many variations really be able to attribute all cattle "mutilations" to one cause. Most are consistent with the natural workings of insects and natural decomposition .A few (according to an investigation aired on the Discovery Channel) have some characteristics that cannot be pinned down; but to make the assumption that these are done by "little green men from outer space" is too much of an assumptive leap; reflecting mostly wishful thinking and leaps of faith, than of any actual facts.

Not that I can tell. The FBI, when they did investigate, did not conclude that there was anything "unnatural" going on either. The conclusion seemed to be animal predation and some possible human activity. There has been a lot of claims about these mutilations, e.g., complete loss of blood, strange looking organs, apparently sharp incisions, etc., but there are also explanations for these as well which went largely ignored by those insisting on some more fanciful explanation (see link from skepdic and NSF below). I do think for any after-the-fact investigation of messy events such as this you'll always find things you don't have ready explanations for. That's never a good excuse to starting thinking it's "unnatural". This is a good example of the very common fallacious reasoning where "unexplained" somehow gets transformed to "unnatural" or "paranormal" or "supernatural".

I agree, i think it is possible most cattle mutilations are natural causes. I personally reject the idea of aliens doing this not because I don't believe in spaceships and extraterrestrials but because I don't think a race of people so far advanced then we are would be going around and mutilating cattle.

I also reject the idea that devil worshipers are doing this because the so called devil worshipers are just pagans and Wiccans and we do not even believe in the devil much less worship him. Even the few Satanists I know don't go around mutilating cattle because that is not what they are about. Pagan religions are legal religions protected under the freedom of religion. yes some people call themselves pagan and do unlawful things in the name of their religion but they are few and far between. Christians also have weird isolated churches with weird beliefs that go against the law at times but those also are few and far between. Most religious people regardless of whether they are Christian or pagan are very lawful people and good neighbors.

Now this is just my opinion but I think the rare cases of cattle mutilations that are committed by people are done to perpetrate a hoax of either aliens or devil worshipers.

http://ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au...

That's exactly what I've been talking about in the above question. And clearly many of these cases, including the recent ones, involve human hands. Which is why the FBI can't say they are all "solved".