Umm, Ma’am, that wern’t no fox you saw in your Vegetable Garden. That there was what we around here call a Norweigian Rat, yes, Ma’am, I said Rat, and a pregnant one at that. Maybe come next season, you’ll take the advice of local gardeners and leave a snack for the, for the ‘foxes’. Just your greens with a light touch of Strychnine, and a Crunchy Peanut Butter chaser.
I’ve seen rats in the DC Metro that approach the size of a kit, and given the huge rat problem there (both animal and political), I wouldn’t be surprised if you were right.