January 17, 2024

Still too cold to go out, but from my window, I'm watching a fox pick its way through the snow.

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24 comments:

lonejustice said...

This short video is worth watching. There are still good Democrats in our country.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/01/a-word-from-ritchie-torres.php

michaele said...

Your fox is particularly cute. I spot one on occasion around our place and it has a mangy unappealing appearance. Yours looks straight out of an old fashioned Disney film.

Howard said...

And the little ones chewed on the bonezoes

Ann Althouse said...

"Your fox is particularly cute. I spot one on occasion around our place and it has a mangy unappealing appearance."

Meade was just commenting on the quality of the fur on this fox compared to what must have been a different fox on another occasion.

MadisonMan said...

I'll say that this morning was pleasant. It was only 0! I only put one sweater on the dog this morning, rather than yesterday's two!

gilbar said...

if you were Nice.. you'd throw him a nice vole (or maybe a shrew)

rehajm said...

A fox family has denned under my neighbor’s porch for several years. We saw them in our yard often this summer. One was lush and beautiful and one was skinny and mangey looking. We nicknamed them Disney and Bender in our conversations about sightings…

rcocean said...

That is a cute fox, its probably is well fed. maybe its found a way to get into someon'e garbage. Or someone's tossing some food out.

Dear corrupt left, go F yourselves said...

foxes will eat your meat leftovers.

rehajm said...

That is a cute fox, its probably is well fed. maybe its found a way to get into someon'e garbage. Or someone's tossing some food out

I’m sure they wouldn’t reject a scavenging opportunity but they are really proficient hunters. We witnessed the female in our yard dispatch multiple squirrels and mice in a morning so she could scatter them around the yard for her four kits hunting lessons…

Ann Althouse said...

You shouldn’t feed wild animals! They need to catch their own food, not develop a dependency on humans.

Nancy said...

Makes me think of this terrifying painting.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/829827

Rusty said...

If you guys are seeing him this often there's a den nearby. It will be hidden, but in a place that gets a lot of direct sunlight.

tim in vermont said...

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1747630445838131401

Michael Moore *almost* endorses Donald Trump, and explains why he is so hated by the billionaire class, the auto executives, the media, the politicians, etc. It's worth a listen. He wears a red baseball cap, even, but it has the 49ers logo on it. Nobody who watches that speech could come away feeling guilty for voting for "Donald J Trump," as Moore called him. When I want to emphasize how Trump has gone to bat for working people, I call him Donald John Trump, so I get what Moore is saying by calling him that.

Maybe "Cassandra lite" should watch it.

Joe Smith said...

'Meade was just commenting on the quality of the fur on this fox compared to what must have been a different fox on another occasion.'

Indeed, it would make part of a fine coat.

Maybe DeSantis could borrow it?

tim in vermont said...

Good thing it's not a feral cat!

FWBuff said...

Beautiful picture and video!
We have a family of gray foxes that have lived in our cul-de-sac for several years. We always look forward to the new kits early each spring. We are especially grateful that they help keep the squirrel population down.

ALP said...

Does the fox have a name? Must be named. I vote for Virgil.

gilbar said...

Ann Althouse said...
You shouldn’t feed wild animals! They need to catch their own food, not develop a dependency on humans.

That's what the Federal Government says at National Parks..
Now comparison/contrast with Human Welfare

Rocco said...

Ann Althouse said...
"You shouldn’t feed wild animals! They need to catch their own food, not develop a dependency on humans."

Give a fox some leftovers and it will eat for a day. Teach a fox to hunt, and it will knock over garbage cans for a lifetime.

ALP said...

"You shouldn’t feed wild animals! They need to catch their own food, not develop a dependency on humans"

Sorry Ann. Keeping the bird feeder. Watching the birds while I drink coffee in the morning is a blast.

Original Mike said...

The mangy-looking foxes probably have mange. It has been a problem in our Hoyt Park area foxes.

Rusty said...

tim in vermont said...
Good thing it's not a feral cat!
The other white meat!

mikee said...

Your red fox shows up against snow quite wonderfully. Our gray foxes here north of Austin aren't as flashy, but just as amazing. They are suburban wildlife, with an environment that includes several neighborhood drainage ditches, open undeveloped meadows, parkland made of creek banks and every back yard for miles around that doesn't host a barking dog.

And gray foxes climb trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81SeCesBKxw