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June 20, 2005
Foxes (no fire).
About a month ago me and my girlfriend (who's now my fiance!) went on vacation to Hawaii (Kona) for a week. When we got back we had my fiance's family over for dinner. All of a sudden, in the middle of our dinner, we see a fox sit down right by our window. We've never seen a fox where we live before (out in the boonies, in a really cool canyon in Castro Valley, CA), and now we've got one sitting about 5' from our dining room window. It's got a dead rat in its mouth... it wonders around a bit, then drops the rat by our patio. Seconds later, a baby fox appears from underneath our patio. And then one more, and one more... there's 5 babies total! They come out to feed on what mom just brought home, right in front of us!
Since that day, we had the fortune of getting to watch these little foxes run around in our yard every day for 3 weeks, until they apparently moved elsewhere on Sunday a week ago. I hope they're doing well. They were so darn cute!
In the end it's fortunate that they did leave since we've got a wedding to prepare for, and the patio in our yard (along with lots of other things on our property) is going to be completely redone. The patio that was our little foxes' home is already completely gone.
More photos available here.
Posted by jst at June 20, 2005 11:09 PM
Comments
That really is phenomenally cute. You're so lucky!
Posted by: Screwtape at June 20, 2005 11:45 PM
That's cool, reminds of when my family went on vacation and we had a bunch of stray bobcats with a family that lived in the backyard, they looked so cuddly. everyonce in a while they would leave a dead animal on there patio as a present. *yuck*
Posted by: Jmack at June 21, 2005 12:05 PM
Awww... too bad it's just a marketing stunt ;P
It is, right? Awww... ;)
Posted by: Tar at June 22, 2005 4:46 AM
Wow!
Those foxes look great!
How dangerous are they btw? Were they scared of humans, or could you approach them ?
Posted by: Caleb at June 22, 2005 10:27 AM
I believe those are coyotes. I checked the pictures for both foxes and coyotes in my old Encarta software.
Posted by: Keith Gallistel at June 22, 2005 9:24 PM