I got this shot out the dining room window at breakfast a couple of days ago — that's "our" fox in the process of making her morning rounds. (To be honest, we don't know her gender but for some reason we've decided she's a she.) Just about dawn, she emerges from somewhere and heads down the drive towards our house, goes around the barns, comes through the corrals, then loops behind the vehicle shed and back through the pastures behind our house and Widget's House before disappearing again.
A few months ago we were distraught to see her limping and holding her left rear leg up in the air. Even with the binoculars we couldn't tell what the problem was — whether she'd had it caught in a trap, been shot at, or suffered some other kind of trauma. Of course, our instinct was to do something to help her, but Fish & WIldlife Department regulations don't permit that sort of thing, and you have to accept that nature is going to run the show.
As it turned out, as the weeks went by her limp began to decrease and she started putting her leg down, though it's clear she still has a leg problem of some sort because of her gait. But her life will get a lot easier once the snow is gone. Every year we have a family of fox kits born on the property, and we hope this year is no different.
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Callie Update: As of this afternoon, we've received $1,695 in online gifts towards Callie's medical fund, and we've heard from a number of folks who have put checks in the mail for her — wow! Thank you!
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