Caught a trespasser at work today

[BUFF]

A fox ran under my patrol car one winter night about 3 or 4 years ago. Deader than Stalin's honor. Winter fur coat. Beautiful little animal.

 

[Smoke]

Around here the fox pelts are basically worthless because of the sun winter coat or no

 

[Doug M.]

I see a lot of foxes wandering campus in the morning ...

 

[Smoke]

Took this picture on Christmas eve 2012. Same fox I literally walked up, stood over him and took the picture.

 

[HorizontalMike]

MMMMM..Foxy Lady!

I think this "guy" would like to meet that Foxy Lady!

And if things work out... they could have a bunch of young'ns

 

[Alaska MJ]

A couple of years back I ran into a nice 10 point whitetail buck one night at work. I was at most, 7 feet away from it and actually got out of my truck to take pictures (Stupid thing to do I know). After a minute or so this critter looked at me and lay down like he was bedding down for the night. I actually have video of him doing this on an old phone.

He acted like he was waiting for me to feed him a carrot and I literally could have put my pistol right between his eyes and shot him at contact distance (I bet a 9mm would have been enough gun in that case). I did neither; I took my pictures then got in my truck and hit the panic button. Last I saw of him was a butt disappearing over the hill.

Some idiot who thought feeding the deer was "cute" had habituated this critter to humans and sooner or later he was going to wander onto public land and walk up to some hunter get blasted while he was waiting for his carrot. . Although I must admit that in this deer's case it made no difference. He got hit by a car a few months later. One of his antlers is still sitting on the top of my wife's China Cabinet.

While I have no objection to killing a wild animal for food I think it should be at least a little fair and I think it's unethical to take away a wild animal's natural fear of humans (a survival tool) because you (generic) think feeding it is "cute" .

Think about all the states that allow baiting for deer. Your putting out the food for them (and your scent) so they smell your smell and think its a good thing. Same thing with food plots. Less fear for the deer. Makes for great video though. The tube is full of it.