by the way, my neighbor was telling me that he saw 2-3 foxes back when the kids were off school for a snow day in the last week or two! here we thought Mr.Fox was it, but there is potentially a Ms.Fox looking for Julius too! xshub was horrified when the neighbor said that he thought the foxes ate their cat! LOL! he was serious too!
I spotted a fox last summer. I hear we have one that hangs around, too. That is sad about the cat. Yikes.
I have no use for foxes. One of them stalked, killed, and ate my best peacock a number of years ago.
In recreating the incident, I firmly believe that the peacock saved the rest of the flock by leading the fox away from them. The shrieking of the others caused me to get up and look out the window (about 3 am). They were heading to the barn.
In the morning, Danny Boy wasn’t there. We found his tail feathers across the road a ccouple of days later. A professional trapper identifed the footprints in the driveway as belonging to a mother fox and 3 kits.