A Young Back Yard Fox

A few pictures from the back yard last night. The big feast was in the front yard because I made too many olive-oil fried potatoes.
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Happy Fox

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Cson has been feeding her backyard fox, and now he shows up for lunch, the miserable thing.

Mine are not quite so bold, as the dogs have free run of the yard during the day, but like Cson, I too feed my local fox and they come every night on the hope I might have remembered them with some leftovers.

Fox are as common as water puddles in large parts of this country, but go about largely unseen as they move around at night.

Cson and I have both had yard fox with a touch of mange, but simply feeding a fox is often enough to boost the immune system so that they can right that problem themselves.
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Local Visitor on Top of the Dog House

Why are red fox feet always black? A silly question, I suppose, but this seems to me more solidly true than the tip of white at the tip of the tail, which is not always there.
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Dog House Fox

I have not checked on the yard fox for a while, and decided to move the camera to the back yard and see if the fox would hop up on top of the new stone dog house I put in back there.

As you can see, the fox found the food the very first night (the dog house is in the yard above the goldfish pond where I think the fox come to drink), and they had no compunction at all about jumping up.

It looks like there may be three different fox here -- always a bit hard to tell, but there are at least two. The lighting is off; I will have to see if I can adjust the camera to account for the glare off of the hard stone-and-concrete surface. This surface will eventually be covered with ivy.

For the record, the dogs sleep inside the main (human) house at night, and the large stone dog house (big enough for all three dogs to fit inside) is only one of several places they can lounge during the day. At first they continued to use their dog houses inside the garage, but now they seem to like the stone dog house outside best of all. It seems to stay warm in the winter (6-inch stone walls, concrete topped by insulated foam on the bottom, and a thick bed of straw inside), and I think it will stay cool in the summer too.
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Yard Fox Doing Well

Three fox visiting last night.

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