Solution to the rabbit problem
Moderator: Chris_W
Solution to the rabbit problem
Look who came to visit this afternoon!
Wow!! Cool Pictures!!
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Old earth dog
- Posts: 7003
- Joined: Aug 31, 2002 8:00 pm
- Location: St. Louis Mo zone 6 bordered on 5
Thanks everyone 
Yes Chris, I see him a couple of times a month. The first photo is the bottom of my yard, the second is looking across my yard and over a corner of my neighbors yard. My house backs up to a state park so that's why it looks a little wild and wooly back there.
About 18 months ago I started seeing 2 kits once in a while playing in my backyard, usually really early in the morning. They were so funny! If my kids left a ball out they wold play with it just like puppies would. Chasing it and rolling over it (and each other) and just having a grand old time. I would see them every couple of weeks as they would play and cut through my yard, across my neighbors then into the woods again.
Last winter I only would see the one and less frequently then before. I'm not sure, but I think they both were males (based on potty habits
) so it may have been a territorial thing.
I did see an interesting encounter last summer. I was in the back yard with my kids (5 and 3) and saw the fox pop out of the woods. As I was watching him, I realized there was a cat (one I had never seen before) stalking something in the grass about 20 feet away. Well, the fox started stalking the cat. Pretty funny to watch actually until the fox ran out of patience and pounced on the cat. I have never seen such a fight! It was fierce! I yelled at my kids to come back into the house and when I did the fox and cat let go of each other and went their separate ways. I think the fox would have eventually gotten the better of the cat, but I didn;t really want to watch the outcome (nor did I want my kids watching it in the back yard).
So that is the story of Foxy Loxy in my back yard
Alexa
Yes Chris, I see him a couple of times a month. The first photo is the bottom of my yard, the second is looking across my yard and over a corner of my neighbors yard. My house backs up to a state park so that's why it looks a little wild and wooly back there.
About 18 months ago I started seeing 2 kits once in a while playing in my backyard, usually really early in the morning. They were so funny! If my kids left a ball out they wold play with it just like puppies would. Chasing it and rolling over it (and each other) and just having a grand old time. I would see them every couple of weeks as they would play and cut through my yard, across my neighbors then into the woods again.
Last winter I only would see the one and less frequently then before. I'm not sure, but I think they both were males (based on potty habits
) so it may have been a territorial thing. I did see an interesting encounter last summer. I was in the back yard with my kids (5 and 3) and saw the fox pop out of the woods. As I was watching him, I realized there was a cat (one I had never seen before) stalking something in the grass about 20 feet away. Well, the fox started stalking the cat. Pretty funny to watch actually until the fox ran out of patience and pounced on the cat. I have never seen such a fight! It was fierce! I yelled at my kids to come back into the house and when I did the fox and cat let go of each other and went their separate ways. I think the fox would have eventually gotten the better of the cat, but I didn;t really want to watch the outcome (nor did I want my kids watching it in the back yard).
So that is the story of Foxy Loxy in my back yard
Alexa
How cool Alexa! Great shots! 
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