Foxes and Rabbits

[Axeman]

I wish life were like Disney....where the foxes and bunnies could get along...


I love seeing both the foxes and the bunnies....for the past few years we've had a fox den out in front of our house...last year we were fortunate enough to have 2 fox dens on our property and not that far from each other either....maybe 600 m or so apart....but there were absolutely no rabbits about...none at all....I had a feeling that our resident foxes had decided to move on in the spring when we started seeing bunnies again...first a couple...and now there are hundreds of tiny little bunnies all over....and....at first I was delighted....but I'm noticing that they're eating EVERYTHING they shouldn't be....they're on my deck eating potted plants....I planted roses for my wife in a planter and well they picked the one bush I could find that was labelled as moderate scent (everything else this year was light)....they ate the buds...they ate the leaves....sigh....at least the foxes didn't eat the plants.

[Dr. John]

Well it's great that you got to see both.  Hope that the foxes come back again to save your plants.

[Ally]

This morning, at 6:15ish,  a fox ran by my door, so it's not that I don't have foxes here,  they are just early risers

[Axeman]

earlier this afternoon I saw a wee wee little bunny skip past me.....it was so cute.....but they're eating the rose garden I put in for my wife a few weeks ago after 18 years of nagging......UGGGGGHHHHH

[Ally]

Good for her!! I have a Graham Thomas now, obsessed with the blooms.

[Axeman]

Oh boy....you posted that to taunt me didn't you lol

[Ally]

Oh boy....you posted that to taunt me didn't you lol

You bet!

[Axeman]

I'm wondering....if avian flu had anything to do with the disappearance of our fox dens....I had seen the adult pair of one of the dens much earlier in the spring and in the area of the den...I checked at some point in the spring and had seen some activity at the den....but no sightings since the spring....I left the area alone for a while to give space / privacy but after no sightings since early April I went back and saw signs that the den had not been in use for a while.