i have to tell you my FOX story!! We have had at least one amd maybe two foxes in our yard and I was freaking out about it at home yesterday. I saw the one on Sunday after it snowed, I just glanced out front to see where the dogs had made footprints in the snow [the dogs were both in at this point] and I see what at first I think is ANOTHER dog out front and then I look and it's a red fox! It was literally just down the front steps just on the other side of my front walkway, STEPS from my front door and I was eyeball to eyeball with it. I called xshub and the kids to come see it as it was so CLOSE and it must have heard me and run off. Then yesterday afternoon around 4pm xsbrownie looks out the front door and starts shrieking that the fox was back. Well I looked out and this was not the same one I saw on Sunday. That one was a nice looking, full tailed and lightish/whitish faced fox. The one yesterday had a disgusting looking thin and limp tail and was covered with MANGY SPOTS, bare spots with no fur and then it turned to face me and it's face was dark and it just didn't look RIGHT to me! I was totally creeped out. xsbrownie had ccd and we had to leave but when I got home I called animal control and they said that bc it responded to and was startled by noise [I banged on the glass and it ran off, only to come right back and nat had to bang again] that it wasn't sick [aka rabic] but that he didn't think I should leave the dogs out unattended. So now I am all paranoid about the wildlife in my yard. We only have a half acre but there are 4 homes, ours being one, where there was once a farm. And down the street we have a protected wetland area that cannot be developed and it has a creek and a bit of woods, so I guess that's where they hang, but I am telling you for living 2 mi outside the beltway we have deer, raccoon, fox, and even a wild turkey that I have seen!
Forgive my chuckling........
i don't blame you for being creeped out.
Sounds like a hunter's paradise.