Something woke me up thursday night. I lay there wondering what. Then I heard it, a barking noise. Then again, and again. I got up and looked out the window. Just off the edge of the lawn in the driveway was a big barn cat. 10 ft from it was a fox, the fox barked again at it. The cat wasnt puffed up, tail twitching or anything. The fox would take a step closer, and the cat lifted his paw. The fox backed up. The cat took a step forward, the fox barked and ran out to the edge of the driveway. It then ran back in and barked at the cat. They kept it up for 10 min. like that until I wanted to go back to sleep, so I rapped on the window and they both took off. I think the fox just wanted to cruise through the driveway and barnyard. There are always pigeons that fall out of nests that cant fly, blackbirds I've shot out of the silage bunks. Mice near the grain bins and so on. The fox wanted to cruise the buffet line, and the cat was saying no-way. Interesting to watch.
We had both red and gray in Oregon. The reds were always a surprise. I caught the grays lurking around our chicken coop when we had birds, the rascals. Canine distemper flareups killed a lot fo the grays.
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But not the reds, Bill? We have just reds. Rabies will kill them in streaks. They have bait drops here partnered with Quebec. Keeps rabies in foxes down, but every 10 yrs or so, it pops up. Coyotes kill quite few.
We occasionally see a red fox on game camera near my wife’s chicken house, only seen it once otherwise. Haven’t lost any chickens to it, so it’s safe for now. We have a place near Robert Lee, Tx in west Texas, that apparently has quite a few gray foxes and every time we check camera cards nearly every camera will have several photos of foxes, even gotten pics of little ones, too. Have yet to see one in the daytime.
