What her grandmother never taught her
Posted By Foxy Lady on January 19, 2011
Ears is back! She hadn’t been hanging around by the patio doors in at least a couple of weeks (although she’d been coming by the food area overnight)… possibly because it hadn’t been as cold recently around Fox Towers, possibly because she’d been off getting acquainted with the local males, who knows.
Anyway.
Yesterday evening she was sitting outside the door looking hopeful, and being the soft touch that we have already established that I am, I looked around for something to put out for her to eat.
What came to hand was a couple of rather elderly eggs and some cheap cat treats. (Never let it be said that the foxes round here don’t dine well.)
So I put these gourmet viands out on the patio and retreated to watch.
She came up to one of the eggs and nudged it with her nose.
OH MY GOD IT WOBBLED WHAT IS THIS IT’S SO SCARY
… and she backed off and fled into the bushes.
Admittedly she — or one of the other local foxes — came back for each of the eggs, but still! You can tell these are urban foxes who aren’t used to raiding chicken pens or birds’ nests….
(I would have repeated the experiment by putting one or more eggs in front of Foxcam, but they wouldn’t have wobbled so well on grass…)
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