Stubby wrote:
Bourne Identity wrote:
I also posted this to austin.gardens and someone came back with
possible gray fox, which it seems to be. Anyone with info, how
you got rid of, or if it's okay to let them live on the property,
etc...would be appreciated.


For several nights my husband has been seeing two animals. One
larger than the other, the larger being about a third larger than
the smaller. I got to see it tonight on the fence. It had a
long, bushy tail, beautiful detail and smooth. I didn't see the
color as it was too dark and the flashlight didn't do it.

When it finally ran off it made a sound like a gravelly roar, not
a screech. I found something which sounds very much like what I
heard:

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/...s/FoxChirp.wav

I looked at the Texas Parks and Wildlife website, but all they
list is one kind of fox, and it is not supposed to live this far
east in Texas. However, it is listed as living in open prairie,
short and tall grass. Recently, on SH-79 they have literally
removed hundreds of acres to build a new Walmart, an HEB going in,
and tons of those shit bag houses that all look exactly alike, all
three feet from the other.

I did see a rabbit the other day for a few days and now it is not
here any more. Coincidence? I also have not seen near as many
lizards as I normally see. I can count how many I've seen this
year, as opposed to every other year seeing many dozens daily.

We saw a fox this year in MA. It trotted up the driveway and
across the back yard to the woods.

Several years ago there was a "mother" fox and two little ones.
They were around for over a week and I put out a few cans of cat
food for them. (Our cat wasn't very interested in going out!). We
found two squirrel carcasses out front one morning but they were
gone by the afternoon. I think Mama fox killed them for the two
little ones.

They eventually left, but there are many reports of foxes in this
area. Maybe we're encroaching on their turf.

Maybe?

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Travis in Shoreline (just North of Seattle) Washington
USDA Zone 8
Sunset Zone 5