Been having fun watching a fox family raise their pups at work. My work has a sprawling campus of about 200 acres of different engineering and manufacturing buildings and cameras everywhere.
We were getting overrun with rabbits this past year and a hawk and an owl appeared to help out with that problem.
Then, a couple of foxes showed up a few months ago and have been fun to interact with. I have had them run by me late at night while I'm out walking around our campus.
Then, a few weeks ago, we spotted 4 pups and located their den, which is under a cargo container in a small field. This morning, I drove over within 50 yards of the den, got out of my car, and just stood and watched the pups play. I would whistle at them and they would act like they were curious, but didn't come over. The parents just kept an eye on me but let the pups continue to run around.
My dad had stories of hunting camps in Alaska and the Arctic foxes would come into camp and take food from his hand.
I don't raise chickens and don't have any pets, so I love the foxes. But I understand they can be a deadly pest for others.
This is an image from one of our cameras of an adult and a pup nearby. It's a picture of a picture of a crappy camera. Sorry...
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