Foxy Lady | September 13, 2015
Hi folks! Been a while, hasn’t it — the local foxes have not chosen our garden as their territory just lately, so we’ve not had any pretty pictures to share. But we do have some from a friend of the blog, Ms Vixen, who lives a couple of towns away; their local foxes have raised […]
Foxy Lady | June 11, 2012
In a litter of six, you’d expect there to be a runt. Last year, with only two cubs ever visible, they were fairly even in size; the year before, with four, there was definitely one who was a little bit smaller than the others. But Runty McRuntersdottir, the littlest female in this year’s litter, is […]
Foxy Lady | May 29, 2012
Let me introduce you to Aunty Fox. Aunty is the slightly smaller and, one might assume, younger female who has been helping Mrs Fox with the cubs. Before we started seeing the cubs in the garden, Mrs Fox and Aunty Fox had often been seen curled up together in the sunshine. The gallery below shows […]
Foxy Lady | July 31, 2011
The Dog Zombie has posted an interesting roundup of research comparing domesticated foxes with their wild cousins. It’s worth a look if you’re interested in what makes the domesticated foxes different.
Foxy Lady | July 10, 2011
One evening back in early May we were eating dinner and occasionally glancing out to the Family Fox, working their way through the delicacies I’d provided for them on the back lawn. Something wasn’t quite right, though. A head-count suggested… one, two cubs; one, two, three adult foxes? What was going on? While it hasn’t […]
Foxy Lady | May 23, 2011
The cubs in our garden appear to be playing with a discarded Red Bull can. If they start growing wings, I’ll be worried… 😉
Foxy Lady | May 10, 2011
I know, I know; rather behind at the moment. It’s the same problem as last year; at this time of year, we’re generating photos and video faster than I can sort through them! On May 1st, we saw some rather unusual behaviour. Mr and Mrs Fox are both still present in the lives of their […]
Foxy Lady | March 18, 2011
Conservative MP Greg Hands is at it again, in his ongoing attempt to have foxes reclassified as vermin so that councils would be able to organise culls. Hands originally asked much the same question in 2006 (and indeed he received much the same answer). At present, there is nothing stopping individual landowners dealing with “problem […]
Foxy Lady | February 12, 2011
Our correspondent Elizabeth Lovegrove reports from Oxford that they had an overnight visitor, the night before last. They came down in the morning and found a young fox comfortably curled up on their sofa (and their two cats having run away from it, looking decidedly underwhelmed). It backed off to hide under a table when […]
Foxy Lady | January 26, 2011
The Bad Witch has been fox-spotting in her garden — at this rate I’ll be subcontracting the writing of this blog to her 😉 (Although I think she is being a little optimistic about one of the foxes being noticeably pregnant; it’s a bit early for that, yet. We’ll probably find that said fox has […]