Wow - now THAT is bizarre....but the response of the Town Officials is par for the course these days:
“Township officials know neighbors are fed up with the fowl encounters, but they don’t plan to do anything about it, citing the rules of natural habitat.”
One of the people commenting on the Fox-bites-teen story said he had seen a COYOTE in that same town - Wake Forest, NC.
No doubt if somebody shot that coyote or that rabid fox, they would be arrested for animal cruelty!
Did someone say foxes?
Well, considering I’m not up on how contagious rabies is, and I’d worry that might be an issue when disposing of a dead animal I’d shot, I think I’d rather just run like heck and call animal control. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor :)