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So this morning I woke up and there is a fox curled up under one of my trees in the back yard. I opened the back sliding doors to see if I could get a reaction and to see if it was passed. The cutie pie, looked back at me for a few seconds and put its head back down. So now I know it's alive . My husband took a cautious walk around the opposite side of the yard, and the little guy just looked up at him but stayed put. It's not acting injured per se or that is has rabies, but the fact that it doesn't run away worries me. But it could simply be used to people if it's been hanging around the neighborhood this year.
My husband and I decided that we would keep an eye on it, as it could have just been passing thru and taking a rest. (We get a lot of wild life around here)
But it's been 3 hours since I saw it and it's still there. What worries me is that at one point I went to peak at it and at first I thought it was gone, until I realized it was walking around a bit around the back of the tree partially out of view. At that point a huge black bird swooped down and then flew off. It must have been a raven, they can get pretty big around here. When the bird flew off the fox went back to his resting spot, curled up and laid down again. When I saw it walking around the tree it did not look injured, it's walking seemed fine, maybe a little slow but it only had to take a few steps, and it looks healthy enough. I worry that it chose my back yard as a safe place to pass away. We have a wild life charity in my area that we will call, I'm just not sure how much time I should give.
What do you think?
My husband and I decided that we would keep an eye on it, as it could have just been passing thru and taking a rest. (We get a lot of wild life around here)
But it's been 3 hours since I saw it and it's still there. What worries me is that at one point I went to peak at it and at first I thought it was gone, until I realized it was walking around a bit around the back of the tree partially out of view. At that point a huge black bird swooped down and then flew off. It must have been a raven, they can get pretty big around here. When the bird flew off the fox went back to his resting spot, curled up and laid down again. When I saw it walking around the tree it did not look injured, it's walking seemed fine, maybe a little slow but it only had to take a few steps, and it looks healthy enough. I worry that it chose my back yard as a safe place to pass away. We have a wild life charity in my area that we will call, I'm just not sure how much time I should give.
What do you think?