Caught a trespasser at work today
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Slim Chance
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What did he say?
Hah!! Thanks, need a good laugh this evening.
sipowicz
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zzzippper
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DINGALINGALINGALINGLING...repeat as needed.
chuckster57
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maybe he is a she...
MMMMM..Foxy Lady!
MMMMM..Foxy Lady!
BigBill
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Did you feed him?
did u say nice doggie
Absolutely not. IMO feeding wild animals never works out well for the animal. I may not be a threat to him but I don't want him running into another human being that is and sitting there waiting to be fed while they blow his brains out.
There was one crippled female that I fed last year, I gave her a cup of ensure every morning. She couldn't catch prey and was starving; I fed her because I knew she wasn't going to be around long but after only 3 days she was sitting in a certain spot waiting for me every day when I came to work.
Then one Friday I left and when I came back Monday she wasn't waiting for me so I assume she ran into a coyote or a neighborhood dog that she couldn't get away from.
LoboGunLeather
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Nice healthy looking fox. I have one denned up about 100 feet from my house that could be his cousin, had two cute little kits last spring that we enjoyed watching in the mornings.
My last house had a den site just off of my back yard.She'd bring the kits out at dusk to play.Very entertaining.
Arik
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There are some in my area as well. I occasionally see one run across the street or sit in the field near a road and watch traffic (it seems like that's what it's doing). I feel kinda bad for them. My area is ever expanding. New houses, new subdivisions, new roads, expanding roads. ...etc...etc. There will come a day in my lifetime when these animals will be viewed only in books
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Probably not, they're pretty adaptable
Ivan the Butcher
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That fox is sitting beside Arik's road taking a traffic survey, they either are looking for road kill or want to set up a toll both! Ivan
shouldazagged
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Foxes, coyotes, skunks, whitetail deer and lots of other critters have become extremely adept at living around people. We've had gray foxes raising litters fifty yards behind my apartment, and I watched a coyote trot calmly through the parking lot a couple of years ago.
As they have in many cities, Canada geese have become pests in Louisville. Beautiful birds, with really nasty droppings they like to deposit on sidewalks and cemetery grave stones.
Why I Don't Feed Wild Animals
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" .
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" .
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That is a might disturbing!
S&WIowegan
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Wild animals like fox, deer and others were nearly extinct by 1950 in most of the USA. People hunted deer for FOOD to survive hard times. Fox had a bounty on them almost universally because they would prey on farm animals. My Dad wasn't really a hunter or a shooter but he kept a shotgun handy for varmints. I well remember he nailed a fox one morning on the way to milk cows. The county paid a $5. bounty.
For those too young to remember those days, it was a matter of survival for lots of folks.
For those too young to remember those days, it was a matter of survival for lots of folks.
Around here the foxes move in and draw the coyotes who eat the foxes and go away then the foxes come back.
Where I work they have a fence that keeps the Coyote out and the foxes seem to know it so there are always 8 or 9 of them running around here
Where I work they have a fence that keeps the Coyote out and the foxes seem to know it so there are always 8 or 9 of them running around here
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