Foxes

It was just about dawn few weeks ago, and Honey was out for her daily walk when something ran from the roadside into our woods.  When she got home she told me that she thought she had seen a fox. 

Our dogs have been barking a lot more than usual when we let them out just before bedtime, but we have always had raccoons and opossums that would set them off, so I didn’t think much about it.

Then our next door neighbor told us that he believes we have a small family of foxes.  He and his son have seen three foxes in our woods recently,  two full sized and one much smaller, about the size of a small house cat.

Finally, yesterday evening just at dusk, I got my first good look at one of our foxes. 

Honey saw him first, then the dogs did.  He was out by the barn when she first spotted him and about the time I finally saw him he moved across the back yard and into the brush at the property line.  I got to watch him trot across the yard for about 150 to 200 feet. The dogs didn’t seem to bother him at all; he was moving pretty fast, but far from a full-out run.

The others may have been around, or maybe he came back, because the dogs kept barking and running back and forth along the fence.  We had a hard time getting them to come back into the house.