They're all over the place in London, they're so common, and so visible, they almost don't even register as wild animals anymore.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 July 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Hate to say it, but I think what I saw this morning might have been a coyote. The one a few days ago, even though I only caught a momentary glimpse, was definitely orangey; what I saw this morning (I was inside and had a better look) looked more greyish, no orange, and wasn't a dog. It's a nice day, so, as always, people are out everywhere walking dogs and young children. I guess it's not a big deal--maybe it just goes its own way and avoids everybody.
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:19 (four years ago) link
I see loads of foxes where I live. The most startling thing I've seen in recent times is wild deers appearing in the local woods every summer. Last summer I thought the old guy who told me there was a couple of them wandering about on what is locally called the mountains (they are just big hills) that he must have been going senile, until I saw them with my own eyes.
― calzino, Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
(xp) Glad to say there are no coyotes in London! I don't know what size coyotes are but foxes are pretty small.
― Arthur Lowe & Love (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 July 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
From their respective articles in Wikipedia:
Coyote males average 8 to 20 kg (18 to 44 lb) in weight, while females average 7 to 18 kg (15 to 40 lb), though size varies geographically. Northern subspecies, which average 18 kg (40 lb), tend to grow larger than the southern subspecies of Mexico, which average 11.5 kg (25 lb). Red fox adult weights range from 2.2–14 kg (5–31 lb), with vixens typically weighing 15–20% less than males.
Red fox adult weights range from 2.2–14 kg (5–31 lb), with vixens typically weighing 15–20% less than males.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 27 July 2019 15:55 (four years ago) link
Definitely a coyote. My next-door neighbour says there have been two or three in our area as of late, caused by a nearby construction site interfering with their food supply. She has a small dog, so she's worried. I looked up this video on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB1V0YPIrSo
If it comes to that, I guess a shoe would be the nearest thing to throw--the yelling and screaming part would come easy for me. (You're talking about someone who, when I was teaching out in a portable once, got the teacher next door to come in and kill a dragonfly for me--something she was kind enough to bring up at my retirement.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 27 July 2019 17:24 (four years ago) link
Yup. Channel your inner ape and go apeshit. Since most animals already consider us to be borderline psychotic and dangerously unbalanced, they will generally treat you like kryptonite.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 27 July 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
They piss me off. They bark and fuck outside my bedroom window most nights, and it's a thoroughly horrible noise.You're only jealous!― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, December 29, 2003 6:18 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
You're only jealous!
― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, December 29, 2003 6:18 AM (nineteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I do not deny the element of envy. But when you're having a hard enough time getting to sleep....
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Friday, 23 June 2023 12:24 (nine months ago) link
This is where I usually post fox pics, is it?
Alley next to our garden, a few weeks ago:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52846926408_76939e6aa7_b.jpg
― Michael Jones, Friday, 23 June 2023 13:54 (nine months ago) link
what an absolute beauty
i hear coyotes yipping and yowling most nights but i have no luck nor skill as wildlife paparazzi so just envision a pack of big scruffy tan foxes high on laughing gas
― Marina Punky Chow (cat), Friday, 23 June 2023 14:06 (nine months ago) link
something I've noticed since moving to Brighton is the lack of foxes compared to Hastings which was full of them. upthread NickB has posted about them so they obviously do exist here, but I never see any, whereas I would see them all the time in Hastings, badgers too.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 23 June 2023 16:15 (nine months ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/Pqv2QwMG/IMG-20230622-WA0001.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/sXNfdbhG/20230623-174520.jpg
The local couple had babies this year that run round the street and gardens. The above one is getting into trolling
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 23 June 2023 16:48 (nine months ago) link
I respect their trolling skills. There's one that just stares from the railway embankment behind out house, impassive, as my dog winds himself up yelling at him.
― woof, Friday, 23 June 2023 16:51 (nine months ago) link
Our dog (very territorial, very barky, self-styled snarling bane of all foxes) apparently went out for a pee while this scene was playing out and just straight up didn't notice it was sitting there
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 23 June 2023 16:54 (nine months ago) link
We had a fox hanging out in our backyard for a few days, hiding under bushes and rolling in the grass. At one point he came out when the cat and I were in the yard, and he seemed more intimidated by the cat's display of aggression than by mine.
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 26 June 2023 16:03 (nine months ago) link