What kind of fox is this?

[buffalobo]

Fox are cool. never had much of an interest in hunting or killing them. now if I get a big game room some day and a bunch of mounts, it would be cool to mount one in the air in punce mode on a mouse or something.

We watch for them on the weekends in the winter, just after dawn, 8-12 inches of snow. Hunting mice under the snow, they jump up and nose dive into the snow, wiggle around for a few seconds and pop up with a mouse.

[losttrail]

Not impossible there but a Gray Fox would be out of it's expected habitat on the Northeastern prairie. Check out the Swift Fox as it is the common fox of the Pawnee. Very cool critters, not many people get to see them.


Here's the most common fox in Colorado, a Red Fox I watched foraging along the road side along the Peak-to-Peak above Raymond during the flood last month.

We have these all over here. One vixen has laid claim to the culvert running under our driveway and every spring we get to watch the kits grow. Fun.

And yes, we feed them.

[Irving]

Saw the common orange fox last night, and again first thing this morning at my house.

[davsel]

Two years ago, we had a neighborhood red fox with a leather fetish. We often found boots, gloves, footballs, and small scraps of leather in the back of the property where she and the kits hung out.

One day, I came home from work and saw them playing in the back yard. I watched for a while and then saw the momma pick up a shoe from the tall grass. I looked back at my shoes lined up in the mud room, and sure enough, it was one of mine. I ran out yelling and waving, and she dropped it as the family scattered. We then stopped leaving the sliding door cracked open for the cat.

Cute critters, but sly little bastards.

They often "bark" at our cat when the cat is on the front porch after dark. One of the strangest sounds I've heard from an animal.

FYI, a descent sized live trap (coon size) and some cat food (or leather glove) will bring them in. Foxes and chickens don't mix, so someone had to go.

[a98kdoc]

[QUOTE=Irving;1369557]I'm not interested in hunting one, I just saw one today and was wondering if someone knew what it was. Looked like this:


Also known as a Kit Fox but if it is a Kit fox who puts them together?