Little one (fox puppy) watches the back door cautiously.
Again, a little one is fixated on the back door.
Little one patiently waits for mom to step aside from the food bowl.
Little one eats what the mom left.
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3:14 PM 8/13/2020
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Three in a row.
A minor dust-up.
Good to the last crumb.
But never enough food to go around.
The little ones grow up so fast they will soon be indistinguishable from the adults.
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1:54 PM 8/6/2020
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Little fox gives cat wide berth.
Fox tries to sneak up.
Cat gets tough.
Cat goes after fox.
Cat won't let up.
Finally, a few days later, three foxes eating from same bowl.
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10:44 AM 7/30/2020
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Hoping momma will leave something.
Mom keeps an eye on the two little ones.
Momma watches the door while the little ones scrounge for food.
Aw, they're so cute! One snuggles the other.
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4:27 PM 7/23/2020
Fox and cat stare down -- cat wins.
Mom teaches little one to stay on alert.
Momma and the two youngsters.
Sloppy eater -- Junior has a foot in each bowl.
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4:02 PM 7/16/2020
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Apparently, the two foxes who frequent the food bank made some babies. One night we had some more mouths to feed.
The little guy drinks from the deep dish.
Mommy watches over the little one.
Mimicking mommy on alert.
Nuzzling junior.
Whoa! Not one but two little ones!
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3:00 PM 7/9/2020
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Fox calling for the youngster.
Youngster arrives -- partakes of food.
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2:17 PM 7/2/2020
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One fox eats, the other drinks. They really appreciate that water being out there on these hot summer nights.
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3:19 PM 6/25/2020
Both foxes eating.
One fox eats while the other serves as look-out.
Both foxes on the look-out.
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3:12 PM 6/18/2020
The fox and the cat watch each other warily as they jockey for position around the food bowl.
Eventually, the fox moves into the end zone.
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3:33 PM 6/11/2020
Lately the foxes have been eating everything put out for them. Their other sources of food must be slacking off.
Licking the pan. By the early AM the food is gone.
"Where did all the food go?"
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2:30 PM 6/4/2020
Sniffing butt.
Bumping heads.
I think they might be friends.
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2:18 PM 5/28/2020
Fox calling out for his companion.
One fox in submissive position. Did they have a squabble?
Fox in the trap. It wasn't set, but because of the long tail the trap door may not have snapped shut. So it probably wouldn't do for catching foxes, not that I would want to do that anyway.
This is the cat for which the trap was intended. It wasn't set that evening, but now we know the cat will enter it as he did here to retrieve the chicken scrap in the back of the cage. Look closely to see the bait he is carrying out. The challenge will be to trap that cat and not any of the other critters.
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1:36 PM 5/21/2020
Fox and cat face off.
Two foxes eating out of the same bowl at the same time. That doesn't happen often.
Fox takes a wary look at the cage.
Two foxes -- something off screen has their attention.
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4:01 PM 5/14/2020
The foxes will eat together so long as each has a separate bowl.
The foxes give the Big Grey Meanie wide berth.
Here the fox watches as the cat sniffs out the box.
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1:18 PM 5/7/2020
Big Grey Meanie captures bird.
Fox tries to look fierce. Take a close look at the right edge of the frame to see a pair of eyes -- probably a cat -- trying to stare down the fox.
Fox takes a cautious look at the *box.
*The box is there as an experiment to see if the Big Grey Meanie (cat) will go into an open ended container for food. Sometimes he does, and sometimes he doesn't.
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10:45 AM 4/30/2020
Fox sees a poltergeist. Actually it was just a photo aberration.
Two foxes debating about who eats first.
Fox inspects a mysterious box that showed up behind the water bowl. There was food in it. It wasn't a trap, but the fox was too suspicious to go in.
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2:48 PM 4/23/2020
Lil Gray guards the food dish while the fox watches from the sideline.
A couple of hours later --
Another fox arrives. But one still has to wait. Hungry critters don't like to share.
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3:12 PM 4/16/2020
It has been a while since two foxes appeared in the same frame. But here they are.
Just in time to help us celebrate Good Friday.
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10:20 AM 4/10/2020
Sneaking up on his prey.
Yelling in triumph!
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1:19 PM 4/2/2020
Fog lights on bright.
Grabbing a bone.
Two views of the fox with the distinctive tail twist.
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2:38 PM 3/26/2020
Same fox, same spot, different days.
Something in that direction sure had his attention. Maybe we need a second camera to capture the other side.
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1:27 PM 3/19/2020
That mean gray cat circles a timid fox.
The fox backed down.
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2:56 PM 3/12/2020
The bandit.
Notice the lines leading to his eyes.
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3:51 PM 3/5/2020
Look at the length of that tail!
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This one shows off his bushy tail.
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"I'm ready for my close up."
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"Do you like my smile?"
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1:09 PM 2/27/2020
Front and side shots of Old Crooked Tail.
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2:33 PM 2/20/2020
It's a zoo out there.
Here the cat, Lil Gray, watches a fox eat the food.
Nice closeup of Mr. Fox.
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4:30 PM 2/13/2020
The same fox a couple of hours between visits.
Snow day. The food tray and water bowl are buried under the snow. No critters showed up. Can you blame them for not wanting to walk through the snow barefooted?
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2:29 PM 2/6/2020
They live amongst us, but they roam at night, stay out of sight, and remain on alert at all times. The are indeed wild animals.
That wariness is a genetic trait, and it's unlikely they'll ever change. There's a book out there titled, "How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)" which is quite good. It took several generations of breeding the calmest foxes at a Russian fox farm to produce animals that had a loving-dog attitude. So it's unlikely that the urban foxes in the photos that appear here will ever become tame no matter how much food is fed them by humans.
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2:44 PM 1/30/2020