Eactivist said: > >I've noticed with foxes, though, that sometimes you can jump up and down > >and wave your arms, and they'll just watch you. But if you try to talk to > >them, they'll run. I figured talking would reassure them because > >predators try to sneak up on their prey, but I was wrong. > > Interesting. Very few foxes around here.
There may be more than you realize. I'd lived more than 20 years in my home town in Minnesota and seen foxes there twice, but I'd assumed they were just passing through. One winter when I went back on vacation, and I was a little more interested in that, there was an inch of snow on the ground, which let me go everywhere and see every track, pounce, and butt print. And the foxes were everywhere, along railroad tracks, on the community college grounds, the YMCA grounds, a cemetary, behind a strip mall, behind a library, basically every place that I thought to look. They must have literally been coming into my back yard every night, and I didn't have a clue. But that's the way they are. Where I am now, I count myself lucky if I see them once in ten trips to the woods, but I find their signs everywhere-- tracks, scat on the sidewalks, scent marks on light poles, etc. > Sometimes, yes, I can jump around > and wave and the deer won't move, usually when they are laying down pooped. > Other times if I move, they move. Depends I think how much the see the territory > as "their" territory and not just a passing through territory. But I am not > sure about that. > > I may say under my breath about a spotted fawn, "Aren't you cute," but it > never occurred to me to talk to them. Hehehehe. > > Marnie aka Doe Okay, I can nix that one before even trying it. ;-) Good > luck with your future shots and good luck to me too. Deer are weird. But if they don't just run when they see me, they don't seem to mind me talking to them.
