Urban Foxes

In the western USA (and beyond) our version of this is urban coyotes. I see them fairly often. They like to eat the local cats.

we had some media hysteria a while back about foxes getting into people's houses and attacking them but i guess a coyote wd be a slightly more fearsome proposition

Slightly larger, same degree of intelligence, but not usually aggressive unless rabid.

yeah i never really bought into the "foxes are out to get us" story either

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2010/6/7/1275932763679/An-urban-fox-in-London-20-006.jpg

Sup

you can't keep a good canid down.

unban foxes

They seem to have become much scarcer in London recently. Least I haven't been seeing nearly as many.

I've had to deal with two dead ones in my garden in the last couple of years. Shovelling it into a bin bag and carrying through to the front for council collection = not very pleasant.

can't you just get a vulture?

I've had to pick up a couple of dead foxes off our street and it's weird how they feel when rigor mortis has set in - really soft fur but as stiff as a board underneath.

my area of London seems to have as many as ever but I also hear them making their freaky sounds through the night (are they fighting or in pain or is that just what they sound like when they want to vocalise things?) much more often than is usual.

They're noisiest when they're mating and then they do all that weird otherworldly screeching and screaming, but that usually happens in Jan/Feb.

just saw one in Baltimore the other night by the reservoir, running across 33rd street

I was teaching Chaucer's Nun's Priest's Tale today (based on Aesop fox story)

happy to have foxes on my mind and in my life

keep it up foxes

http://www.globalgiants.com/archives/fotos31/GlobalAutoCarfox-05.jpg

The kids named this one Edward, earlier in the summer:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5441/9009813859_986ef3ff56_z.jpg

Hopefully not the one we dragged, lifeless, from under our patio bench a few weeks later.

there's a small park near my house, cutting thru it tonight there was a great big fox sitting amongst the trees watching me pass by with complete chillness. 5 minutes later me and Joel are walking back thru the park and we realise there's not one but a pair of them, still unfazed by passing spectators. then they trot off into the undergrowth to presumably listen to some vulpine Barry White.

london foxes would murder those

all that big city radge

they mostly do what they want in daylight

i hate the phrase 'broad daylight', what a miserable pleonasm

tbh i think the ongoing emboldenment of foxes might well be a country-wide phenomenon

also i read this thread as Unban Foxes, which is exactly how i feel about one of the few regular fauna to grace london streets and the most disparaged of the non-verminous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKF_9ZSCR3U

high point of british culture obv

One stood at my front garden gate today, until I noticed it.

Foxes beyond classic, almost miraculous they put up with humans tbh

two foxes appeared to kiss each other before walking away in opposite directions

<3

i feel like this thread is gonna build to some sort of SF climax as the last notes of a civ destroyed by foxes

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Don't see so many around my area these days so I was happy to see a very bushy-tailed fella run along my street as I came home around midnight last night.

young foxes squealing

saw 2 cubs last night rooting around under a van before scarpering into some overgrown pre-construction wasteland

was deeply heartening

i think foxes should be unbanned too. hell of a poster but misunderstood.

I spotted either a pair of foxes or coyotes scurrying across the street a little while back, which is pretty unusual around here. In my neighborhood, we have a very large and growing deer population that is rapidly getting out of hand, plus a random assortment of skunks, raccoons, and armadillos. Up until recently, my backyard was a regular old vermin preserve.

Fox in the snow, where do you go to find something you can eat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SoGHFM18I

such ravage
many grow

Always hatefucking outside my window

there's a presumably escaped pet rabbit that lives somewhere behind the school playing field, i see it most mornings sat on the field within fleeing distance of the dense hedgerow, a big fat black and white lad. when he disappears for a few days i wonder if the foxes have had him but he's clearly quite a canny survivor by now, he's been around for months

there are foxes around here. they mind their own business while looking like a million bucks.

i think foxes should be unbanned too. hell of a poster but misunderstood.

― soxahatchee (Treeship), Tuesday, May 13, 2014 8:17 PM (Yesterday)

Unban Foxes

there are foxes around here. they mind their own business while looking like a million bucks.

Unfortunately, my neighborhood just has a million bucks. Also, several female deers have given birth in my front yard. Must look like a maternity ward to them. And my front lawn must look like a deer toilet...

It would be nice to have some foxes show up and get these fuckers in line.

Foxes are tad small to hunt deer. Coyotes seems like the better bet against deer.

young fox nonchalantly walking along the pavement on a warm spring afternoon

found a fox cub having a casual nap on a driveway a couple of nights ago.

would've been the king of fox-loving twitter if i could've gotten a decent photo.

Re: coyotes vs. deer. Because they don't hunt in packs like wolves, coyotes can't possibly predate on adult does or bucks. Young fawns are small enough to be coyote prey, though.

Thought this was going to be a thread about attractive young ladies in hip hop fashions.

Thought i wasn't going to FP anybody on this thread

for the sheer clumsiness more than anything