cdbeaver
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Looked out my patio door yesterday morning and saw the strangest looking critter loping/limping across my back yard. At first I took it to be a red cat because it had a long, skinny tail.
Looked closer and saw it was a young red fox, but it was like no fox I'd ever seen before. It's tail looked like a chunk of barbed wire, it appeared to be confused and didn't know where it was going. It was without question the mangiest critter I've ever seen.
I didn't have a rifle handy or I'd have done the poor thing a favor and put it out of its misery. (They were locked up in the gun safe.)
It was the first fox I've seen in these parts with the mange. Coyotes have suffered greatly from the malady, and foxes had pretty well taken over the area because of coyote losses. I wonder how the mange got started and how wide-ranging it is.
Coyote hunters in this part of the state had generally poor luck this past winter because mange had really done a number on them. Up to now, at least, foxes appeared to have been unfazed by the malady. Any one have any information on the subject?
Looked closer and saw it was a young red fox, but it was like no fox I'd ever seen before. It's tail looked like a chunk of barbed wire, it appeared to be confused and didn't know where it was going. It was without question the mangiest critter I've ever seen.
I didn't have a rifle handy or I'd have done the poor thing a favor and put it out of its misery. (They were locked up in the gun safe.)
It was the first fox I've seen in these parts with the mange. Coyotes have suffered greatly from the malady, and foxes had pretty well taken over the area because of coyote losses. I wonder how the mange got started and how wide-ranging it is.
Coyote hunters in this part of the state had generally poor luck this past winter because mange had really done a number on them. Up to now, at least, foxes appeared to have been unfazed by the malady. Any one have any information on the subject?