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Was outside just setting under the gazeebo and kicking back just as the sun was coming up and it started to get light.........Watching my Koi hogging down the food I just put in for them and emjoying a cup of hot black coffee n the morning chill..It was in the upper 40's..........wow what change. I never leave the house to go outa nd about ther place without carrying a shotgun or my 22 mag revolver or the 22 rifle. While setting there I noticed a movement laong the fence line, towards the road. I realized it was a pretty decent sized fox, so eased up the rifle and shot it..........To my surprise there were two very small kits with it..............she must have had them on a forage or hunting trip. I have a feeling she is the one that was getting in my chicken pens by digging under the netting, and probably the one that ate my last couple of ducks during the summer.......................anyway she is not gonna be a problem any more. I tried like heck to catch those kits but those little jokers could haul butt in a heart beat.
I have shot quite a few fox in this area over the years, and most if not all of them were always pretty scragly looking and not at all well nourished and healthy llooking. This one was totally different...she was well fed, and had a beautiful thick coat of fur.............as good of shape as most house dogs.
Most of the time though its always coyotes I wind up shooting. One year I dumped 13 of them during the summer months and that was without going out and hunting for them, just seeing them on chance and getting them. Coyotes are or should I say were pretty plentiful, as you always heard them howling etc. and you cold always find one or two along the fence lines in the fields during early evening or morning..........but this year I have only seen 1 coyote, but severel fox and one bobcat. A couple of years ago I baricaded a young bob cat in my feed room in the barn, and tried to snare it with a snare pole through a window that had a piece of cattle panel over it. . That was a chore, I finally got it snared and subdued, and into a cage called the game warden up and told him I had a bobcat and could he take it and release it somewhere far away from here, and his reply was its just as easy to eliminate it....there is no season on them, but he would pick it up and do a release for me on some state game lands if thats what I wanted......so that bob cat went for a ride.
I have shot quite a few fox in this area over the years, and most if not all of them were always pretty scragly looking and not at all well nourished and healthy llooking. This one was totally different...she was well fed, and had a beautiful thick coat of fur.............as good of shape as most house dogs.
Most of the time though its always coyotes I wind up shooting. One year I dumped 13 of them during the summer months and that was without going out and hunting for them, just seeing them on chance and getting them. Coyotes are or should I say were pretty plentiful, as you always heard them howling etc. and you cold always find one or two along the fence lines in the fields during early evening or morning..........but this year I have only seen 1 coyote, but severel fox and one bobcat. A couple of years ago I baricaded a young bob cat in my feed room in the barn, and tried to snare it with a snare pole through a window that had a piece of cattle panel over it. . That was a chore, I finally got it snared and subdued, and into a cage called the game warden up and told him I had a bobcat and could he take it and release it somewhere far away from here, and his reply was its just as easy to eliminate it....there is no season on them, but he would pick it up and do a release for me on some state game lands if thats what I wanted......so that bob cat went for a ride.
