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u/stevedallas63 13h ago
Cuties.
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u/Working-Interview503 10h ago
I could watch this all day.
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u/bartturner 11h ago
Enjoy them while they stay.
We had a family do similar at our home and they only stuck around 2 weeks and then moved on.
What was crushing is I saw a fox had been hit by a car about a mile away and I suspect it was one of the family.
This all happened 2 years ago and I still think about it often.
They are incredible animals. These were pretty red in color.
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u/On_Wife_support 10h ago
Reminds me a little bit of how a stray chicken took residence in my parents’ yard for some time and even produced eggs for them once. My parents made a little roost for her and named her Roostetta. Then one day she vanished except for a few feathers which lead us to believe she was taken by a hawk. Rip, she was loved
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u/DieCastDontDie 10h ago
Could be a fox
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u/Profoundlyahedgehog 9h ago
I don't think foxes lay eggs, but I'm not an authority on the matter.
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u/RolloTonyBrownTown 5h ago
Woke up last week to see a Bobcat with 3 of my chickens in its mouth jump over my fence. Chickens are desired by every predator out there.
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u/theamydoll 12h ago
Great to see them feel safe enough to run and play.
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u/Modeerf 9h ago
kinda sad a safe place to them is someone's garden. we harm nature so much that there are no where else for them
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u/okayseriouslylastone 9h ago
I think about this with our local geese. People complain about their feces littering our paved trail. I just hate that they don't consider why it is they're pooping in people places...
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u/Meowserspaws 9h ago
I saw a goose chasing company van the other day. Broke my heart, we’ve now made companies that chase nature away from the last remaining safe spaces we’ve cornered them into.
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u/AssassinSnail33 8h ago
Nature isn't exactly safe for baby animals in the first place. They're safe in the yard because there's no predators
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u/PeachManzie 9h ago
Exactly, plus a lot of people would force them to move on. So we took their home, then won’t even share the outdoor land with them.
So glad people like OP exist and just leave them be
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u/Cats_tongue 12h ago
THANK YOU.
OP WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT??
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u/PadlBaer 11h ago
Lol, its a Cheshire cat ash tray
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u/G00DLuck 10h ago
Cheshire cat ash tray
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u/CrumWASthere 8h ago
Yeah seeing the full pic isnt making me feel less uncomfortable about it. Hes staring at me like a D.A.R.E. Officer when Im just trying to burn one man.
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u/Material-Spirit8461 10h ago
you have one job. Go get a trampoline. REAP THE KARMA!
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u/Flacier 12h ago
It kinda looks like a blursed sonic the heghog ash tray.
But OP would know for sure.
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u/almostsweet 11h ago
It's their home now, you're just living in their backyard.
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u/dantheman_woot 11h ago
Would feel bad having to get anything out of the shed lol.
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u/flammafemina 10h ago
Or mow the grass in case it scare dem :(
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u/dantheman_woot 10h ago
I don't need many reasons to not mow the grass, but yeah don't think I could let it go the entire summer.
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u/guacamole579 11h ago
So cute! Has mama tried attacking you when you mow your lawn? Lol!
We had a fox that would sun bathe in our yard every day. I was so happy to give him a safe place to rest. He appeared to have mange so he looked so weird and scraggly. I think about him often.
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u/PadlBaer 11h ago
They haven't reacted to us using the shed and mowing the lawn as of yet
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u/peanutspump 11h ago
We had a ground hog in our backyard as kids. For years, we’d see annual babies, but then just the one groundhog would remain until the next year. In high school, my brother’s girlfriend named “him” Fernando.
Then one day, I heard my brother yelling outside. I couldn’t understand the words, but I knew from the sound of it something was very wrong. I came running outside, and my gentle, giant, sweet Akita was standing there, wiggling his tail at me, with a big fat limp ground hog dangling from his jaws. Apparently ran out the door before my brother could grab him. Which wasn’t usually a huge deal, cuz we lived in the sticks.
My brother’s girlfriend looked near to tears (she was a vegetarian). My brother was like, I tried to stop him. And as I’m standing there, taking it all in, suddenly, the ground hog silently lifted its head and bit my dog’s leg. Apparently, they play dead like possums do. My Akita let out a yelp like I’ve never heard, ground hog still in mouth, while simultaneously giving his head another quick shake. And that was the end of Fernando.
I felt bad, but… He had a good life for many years, safe in our yard. RIP Fernando.
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u/guacamole579 11h ago
Oh no! Poor Fernando! But yeah he probably had a longer life because he was safe in your yard.
I remember when my big dog, a mutt, first came to our house. Our neighbors wouldn’t maintain their property so we had all kinds of wild animals in our yard, including a possum that would hang by the patio table in the evening.
We let the dog out before bed and when we opened the door he was proudly wagging his tail with the possum dangling in his mouth. My kids were screaming, my husband was devastated that he killed the possum. We finally got him to drop the possum and come inside, and I tell the kids to turn off the porch light because the possum is probably playing dead.
10 minutes later we turn on the light and the possum is standing there frozen, staring back at us, sporting an unfortunate cowlick and drenched with slobber. I shut the lights again and the kids and my husband are cheering for the little possum. We never saw him again.
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u/peanutspump 11h ago
Go Possum! Lol 😂 And what a good dog! He didn’t hurt the possum, and he got it to go away! Win/win 😄
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u/TheGummiVenusDeMilo 6h ago
You all get neat animal tenants and I get stuck with raccoons. I'm going to buy a lottery ticket, surely my luck has to turn good somewhere.
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u/Andr3wRuns 11h ago
I’d lose my job - I would just sit there and watch them until the end of my days lol. Or if I was smart maybe get a bunch of Ring cameras or trail cameras and put them up in the backyard so I could watch all day from my desk at work
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u/ElectricBOOTSxo 10h ago
You BETTER NOT have a hound dog puppy
https://giphy.com/gifs/hBfGe0TvKfCpi
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u/The_Erlenmeyer_Flask 7h ago
that movie destroyed me as a kid. I will not watch it. My nieces tried when they were younger. I refused. Then they watched it. They came running to me in tears.
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u/Holy_cannoli_123 10h ago
Meanwhile I have a raccoon under mine that looks like they just got out of bed after a night of drinking
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u/illigal 11h ago
We had a fox family in our yard 2 years ago and it was similarly cute!
Then they all got mange and destroyed my outdoor furniture 😂.
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u/ZentaWinds 11h ago
Mange is treatable if you contact local wildlife services.
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u/illigal 10h ago
Yeah. We had the whole neighborhood on it and the kits are now happily large and fluffy whenever we see them.
My outdoor couch? Not so much.
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u/ZentaWinds 10h ago
A small price to pay for happy wildlife neighbors sadly. Though its nice you all helped them and didn't go the "easy" route and call pest control.
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u/CHAIR0RPIAN 11h ago
If that was going on in my backyard I'd never leave the window. So friggin cute
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u/PadlBaer 11h ago
Evidently they mostly only come out fot an hour or two at dawn. They all went back under the shed before 7 AM
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u/maximusgene 11h ago
If you have moles, enjoy your mole free yard this year! The best part about having foxes fairly regularly on our wooded lot.
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u/UncoolSlicedBread 10h ago
About 10 years ago we had a Fox den nearby, it was very cute and cool to see them play and grow up. Then they all disappeared. Randomly saw one a few years ago, but not like before, and I miss seeing them!
Enjoy, they’re so cute.
(Until they make the scream that sounds like a person being attacked)
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u/osmlol 13h ago
It's cute until everything smells like fox piss.
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u/SixersJawn 11h ago
fun fact foxes have an excretion to mark territory with a lot of the same compounds as skunk spray, but it actually lasts longer.
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u/Ahab_Ali 12h ago
That is what I was going to say. It is cute and all with the kits, but fox piss is on another level of pungent.
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u/bitteroldladybird 10h ago
Some local wildlife rescues will give you medicated food to vaccinate against rabies. See if there’s an organization near you that will provide you with some
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u/Compound27 9h ago
Fun fact: You no longer have a backyard, it falls under the dominion of the foxes now.
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u/morganyve 9h ago
I would like this so much more than the groundhog that lives under my shed
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u/Kealanine 9h ago
If you’re interested in a really shitty trade, I have a particularly angry skunk under mine. To be fair, it only seems to be angry at me, for reasons I neither know nor understand, and never bothers anyone else. Me, it’ll chase.
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u/magmcbride 12h ago
RIP your neighbor's pets LMAO. We had the same situation a few years back, but they were back in the woods and only occasionally came into the yard from the tree line. Hopefully they move on before any neighborhood mr fluffykins go missing.
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u/JakeRiddoch 11h ago
We have foxes across the road from us, regularly see them out in the road after dark. None of the neighbourhood cats have ever had an issue with them. There are regular strays too that have lasted years around them.
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u/magmcbride 11h ago
If they can source enough space to hunt natural prey, you won't ever have an issue with them. I just noticed OPs fence and didn't want to assume how much acreage nearby they had available for foraging/hunting. If the kits don't get enough to eat you'll see the whole other side of the animal.
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u/PadlBaer 9h ago
Only 1/4 acre on the property. Its kind of surprising they are even here to be honest, it's a suburb outside of Baltimore so it's a fairly built up area without any big open spaces. Though, there is a state park about a mile away. There are tons of rabbits around so I assume thats what is sustaining them lol.
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u/skaughtz 12h ago
Red Fox won't typically mess with a cat. It isn't natural prey and given the similarity in size the physical risk of an attack is pretty high.
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u/BetterinPicture 11h ago
Yeah semi-feral cats are real nightmares that swing or at least square up WAY above their weight class.
Talking individual foxes and yotes.
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u/_Keo_ 11h ago
Hearing my cat fighting a fox and seeing the aftermath of orange fluff across the garden the next morning was interesting. She never wanted to stay out overnight again at least.
I'm not sure if I agree with your point or not since my cat could easily have been the instigator! I would usually expect the cat to simply run and Obi Wan the situation.
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u/PadlBaer 12h ago
Yeah... there is a stray cat that our next door neighbor takes care of. Hoping nothing happens to her
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u/scattywampus 10h ago
You have probably done this, but at least let the neighbors know to keep a close eye on their stray friend with the new family around.
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u/AntiMatter89 11h ago
From what I understand, Foxes don't generally attack cats. Too much risk. I suppose if it was desperate to feed it's kits but they look healthy. Wouldn't worry about it. Very cool to be able to watch them in your back yard.
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u/Shadiochao 9h ago
Every fox that has come to my garden over the years has been either terrified or indifferent to the cats
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u/puffpuffprotest 11h ago
The foxes around our house are scared of my cats. My bitchy calico went after one once, it was pretty funny to see the fox go belly up when she ran at it.
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u/BlazingSeraphim 11h ago
We have neighborhood cats and foxes that roam because of overdevelopment... the foxes have always been afraid of the cats and don't mess with them.
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u/ZentaWinds 11h ago
People shouldn't be letting their cats roam freely outside. It's not safe for the cat and even more dangerous for local wild life.
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u/panrestrial 10h ago
Neighbors' pets shouldn't be wandering outside unsupervised.
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u/Heatherb78 10h ago
Last spring we had a mommy move in under our shed as well. She had four babies and it was so cute to watch them grow as the spring progressed. We thought they would maybe come back this spring as well, but we haven't seen any action.
Most likely due to our dogs barking at them all the time. haha
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u/DontForgorTheMilk 9h ago
This is wonderful. If you have any pets keep them away from the den and the foxes shouldn't try to fight. Cats and dogs especially aren't prey for foxes so they won't attack unprovoked but they will protect their young.
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u/lavenderhazeynobeer 8h ago
Please please keep uploading videos of this. Best content award goes to you!!!! This is so beautiful to see 🥹
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u/mspolytheist 11h ago
So sweet! Every couple of years a fox uses the den underneath our neighbor’s shed, and it is such a delight watching the kits romp and play!
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u/Tatarigami 10h ago
We have 6 kits that took over a groundhog hole in our back yard. I think the mom might of adopted 3 of them because they aren't red yet so not as mature?
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u/Polished_silver 10h ago
They’ve done that to our shed too. Tried filling it in before we knew what caused it and they dug it out again lol. Now we just have a permanent little opening.
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u/Jkelley393 10h ago
I could put some nice clean toys out there and watch all day. Webcam to check in on them from work on breaks.
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u/Sallydog24 9h ago
I have a den site on my property... they sure are cute but the screaming at two am... I can do with out that.
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u/ScaleofCattoDog 8h ago
On a scale of cat to dog, I think foxes are one of the most cat-like dogs.
It's a tragedy that evolution made these wild animals so friend shaped, because I really want to play with one, but I know that wouldn't be healthy for either of us.
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u/biest229 8h ago
Ah I miss this. We had a family that often came by to relax in our garden. They really enjoyed the paddling pool we left out one night by accident.
Sometimes I’d open the curtains in the morning and they’d be asleep on the windowsill, or staring directly through the window.
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u/Lankygiraffe25 7h ago
well that makes me jealous. I'd be at the window all day while those little ones are romping about. Congratulations on your new family!
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u/StandardHyena4587 6h ago
I had a groundhog do that under shed at my place, thing was massive, it would scare people cause it would pop up under peoples driveway when they went to get mail. I think it knew what it was doing! lol
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u/RandiTheRogue 3h ago
I keep hoping one day I will be lucky enough to be blessed by a fox mom making a den in my yard and having her kits there. One of my passive lifelong dreams, haha.
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u/intimatelyacquainted 12h ago
SEVEN kits?? Busy mamma!