Foxes in the Garden!
What’s to say? A mom and three very playful kits. Beyond adorable – and they don’t eat vegetables.
In fact they eat grasshoppers, voles, mice and similar garden comestibles to which they are more than welcome.
Momfox, somewhat fuzzily through the back window at dusk. Stay tuned for the little ones if I can swing it. They must live in the neighborhood; this is the fourth sighting.
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Beautiful! I hope you capture the kits on film. Early this spring we saw a pair chasing a neighborhood cat early one morning. Alas, we haven’t seen them since. I was hoping they’d stay nearby and dine on tender young groundhog….
Thanks, Ali
And do please stay tuned. With luck I’ll get a ( better) pic of the kits; they seem to be pretty tame and it’s really a hoot to see them playing. More like puppies than kit -tens and mom REALLY looks like a dog – quite a bit like our old dear dog Lacey so it kind of gives me a start to see her.
Nice thought about the groundhog. Would have to be a tender young one if your foxes are the red kind. They may chase cats – and occasionally grab a kitten – but even cats are usually too big and too fierce to be of interest which is a relief since our cat Vinnie will soon be in residence.
He’s a scaredy cat by nature but no joke when pushed and we have plenty of handy trees up which he can escape.
This will be the highlight of the garden. One time about 10 years ago I had a red fox who frequented the compost pile. I wised up and brought food each day ( I failed to mention my garden was out of town) anyhow eventualy she came with her family. 5 kits and to my surprise each with a different shade of color. They were from a greyish color to the richest red brown.
the mother knew I was harmless and with each passing day she wshe would bring them closer. before the season was over they were within 6 feet of me. If I had a visitor. they would never see the kits. the mother would appear briefly and vanish.
the interesting thing was; each kit had his or her own personality. I could have named them and knew who was gentle, who was greedy, who was the fighter etc. It was a most enjoyable experience. and you will say the same…..now the squirrels were another ball of wax! steve
welcome Steve
and thanks so much for that lovely – and encouraging! – story. I do hope they stick around; would bring them dogfood the way a neighbor does except I fear attracting raccoons and if the skunks start chowing down too I’m looking at major dogfood bills.
But heaven knows I’m rich in small rodents; one cat doesn’t do the job. So with luck… The current kits are all the same color, maybe because they’re still young. A lovely light tan, with wide tails that come to a point, like very young Persian cats.
Bill says it takes only 4 generations of selection for docility to basically create a dog, so thanks again for the reinforcement.
Forgot to say that although they don’t eat vegetables, they DO eat fruits. Fortunately we don’t have any grapes.