The fox says rodents are good to eat.
We have had a problem with being overrun by chipmunks (who are ruining the foundations) and rabbits (eating the plants). Then our neighborhood became home to a coyote. No more rabbit issue… I have mixed feelings about this.
We haven’t seen a fox for a while here, but darned if she didn’t show up this morning after I read this. She likes to have her baby in our neighbors yard. Awful sounds when she’s calling a mate, can’t wait for that shriek to wake us up, must be soon.
Sometimes it’s because a wooded area was cleared for development and it drives animals out of normal patterns until they find a new home. Foxes aren’t as bad as coyotes. And where we once lived, we get rats in the yard everytime they harvested the fields.
It looked like it was saying where did it go? It was prancing around.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JElQ79rc-5w
Sounds that foxes make. That scream is quite startling in the middle of the night.
more like this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Az80KVbVUSs
In the neighborhood we used to live, there was a rumor at one time some cruel teenagers could go around and kill the cats. According to the report on the local news, the cat was killed by being beheaded (and the head of the cat is missing.) Later, it was found it was coyote which attacked the cat in the neighborhood. At one time, we saw a coyote walking across our drive way/front yard. It was looking at us and maybe thinking whether it should come into our garage looking for food (we were inside our car in our garage – we just arrived at home from a grocery shopping trip.)
We had a lot of deers roaming the neighborhood roads. We hit one while driving in the neighborhood at one time. Also, a group of deers (likely one mother and her fawns) lived in our backyard which is not fenced at one time. At one time, a fawn was lying down in our porch (very close to the window of our living room) while waitimg for the mother deer to come back. I guess the mother deer had not taught her young to stay away from human beings yet. (It’s a very young fawn.)
I love foxes , but haven’t seen them in our neighborhood. They live on the beaches in our area , of all places. I would prefer them over coyotes. We have a growing population of feral cats. I am pretty sure there is a litter of kittens living under my neighbor’s shed
Coyotes are nasty. We have never had a rabbit problem here, but do this year and my German shepherd is being of no assistance. I could use a fox. Or two.
We have foxes this year also. Bunny population seems to be down. They are very pretty. I Think I’d freak out if they came through my yard when I was outside though.
No fox sightings this year, but I am more than upset that another groundhog has taken up residence under my deck!
What about foxes and cats? There is a fox that lives in the overgrown area of the yard behind mine. My two cats go out in our yard only as they are too fat and maybe too dumb to scale the fence (unlike Mr. Fox). Last week I found one cat in the backyard with her tail huge and heard this ungodly noise presumably by the fox, whom I then saw scampering away in the yard behind. I’ve tried Googling and it seems foxes mostly leave cats alone, but it worries me.
Here is a gallery of photos from the area near us. One might think they are common in the multiple acres of woods behind our house , but this is a heavily built up beach and boardwalk…still , beautiful creatures in my eyes.
http://patch.com/new-jersey/oceancity/photo-gallery-images-of-red-foxes-in-ocean-city
Thanks for the gallery, @lje62 . I loved the one of the two foxes sleeping in the sand. So cute. I think most foxes leave cats alone but not coyotes. Foxes usually like prey that doesn’t put up a fight.
This is not a fox post, but nature related. I just saw little yellow baby duck snatched by a crow at the edge of the lake i was walking around. The duckling was squeaking like crazy as they flew out of sight – I didn’t know crows would do this. X_X
Lock up your kitties.
I live in bunnyville wth occasional fox. My poor Indiana Hawthorns are suffering.
An owl is singing really loudly in the large Douglas fir tree… There was a fat bunny grazing in the middle of the lawn in the morning. I hope no loud killings will happen in the middle of the night!