Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for June 11, 2023

In the past couple weeks I have seen a gray fox roaming the neighborhood – three sightings in two weeks or so. The last one was just a couple hundred yards from our house. So, now our dogs may be confronted by deer, elk, mountain lions, javelinas, bears, coyotes and foxes.

I hear their screeching out in the yard a lot of nights, but especially during their mating season (January – March).

which — translated to human speech — is, “you big dummy.”

I once lived just down the road from a goat. The screaming from that goat pen was nightmarish in nature. It sounded like a child.

https://youtu.be/J6NuhlibHsM

(Fox vocalizations.)

If you watch a lot of British mysteries, night scenes are often accompanied by a horrible shriek. Foxes. Or someone getting murdered.

Okaaaaay, is there a reason Jimmy is channeling his inner Marlin Perkins?

Sentients…. please give a hand for the nearly famous Finnegan Fox! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFqLEwAvaHI&pp=ygUMZmlubmVnYW4gZm94

Red fox, grey fox, not too much to worry about with them.

The Swamp Fox gave the British army nightmares, though.

Yeah, but – WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY!?

We only have the red fox here in the UK. It’s cry is a short yelp, like someone’s stepped on its foot; a very popular sound effect in mystery movies, as @pschearer says!

the result of a merger between Mark Trail and Arlo and Janis

Our red fox here simply barks like a dog—but at longer intervals, a slower tempo . .

We have some gray foxes which frequent the back yard. Last year, the female had 5 kits and raised them behind my storage shed. It was a lot of fun to watch them explore and climb the trees, etc. She’s back, but near as I can tell has not denned behind the storage shed, though I did see security video of her trotting off with a mouse in her jaws.

The cat in the last frame is priceless. That’s exactly what happens when there are animal sounds.

You can tell the Redd Foxx by the foul language.

Wish I had a fox around to eat the vermin.

:D

One unusual trait of the gray fox is its tree climbing ability. It is the only fox capable of climbing a tree and has been known to climb as high as 70 feet in a tree.

Michael J. Fox had a birthday this week

There was a den under a neighbor’s deck and Mr. Redd Fox would come and sit in our backyard as a guard. When I tapped on the window with a dime, Mr. Fox ran AWAY from the den (I was supposed to follow-him). Sly, like a fox.

Yum Yum, my Siamese avatar, once chased a fox off our deck. The fox looked perplexed as it ran away from this 5 lb. hissing, screeching little creature!

I have a fox in my house, I usually sleep next to her

I was camping in a remote section of the California coast several years ago and woke to what sounded like a woman being dismembered with a dull knife and it was near by. I got up to investigate, but couldn’t find anything. Later found out it was a mountain lion.

Never seen a fox in my neighborhood, but I used to see deer at night before the neighbor’s apple tree blew down in a freak wind storm 4 years ago.

Oh hum………………

Some of the night scenes in early Midsomer Murder had fox noises in the background, eerie!

Thank you JJ for “foxing the fox”. Cool change of pace ……………BTW Is Ludie protecting the Days or vice versa? He seems glued to Arlo’s back! too funny!

What Does The Fox Say?

Love the foxes and coyotes. Great vermin control.

Oh that poor doomed mouse in panel four, but it does make me laugh! Very warner brothers.

All that for THAT punchline?!

A gray fox visited us last fall to snack on persimmons fallen from one of our backyard trees. Six foot wooden fences apparently didn’t matter to it at all. It chose to dine just a few feet from our patio door – with the light on outside, and lights off inside, it was unaware of us watching in delight.

You’ll never forget your first time waking up to the nocturnal screeching of a fox.

I happened to look out the kitchen window last week, and saw a fox peaking under the deck railing at the corner of the house at the Old Sarge, grilling by the back door. He (she?) didn’t stay long, and haven’t seen him or her since. Somehow it makes our backyard a little more exotic.

Funny story. I had known based on tracks in the snow during winter that I had foxes on my property, but had never seen one. My inground pool during summer is a great trap for moles. Quite often they will stumble down onto the solar cover but won’t be able to get back up. They wander around on it until I scoop them out or until they die. One summer was particularly bad for moles getting onto my cover but when I got home the body was there with the head bit off. Left me scratching my head. And then one day I saw the culprit. Beautiful red fox walking away from my pool fence. He turned and looked right at me freezing for about 5 seconds. It’s the only time I ever saw one and I know they’re still back there.

A few years back had a red fox living in my driveway culvert. The ditch it’s in never has had water in it so she was dry and safe. I say she because she had her litter of kits in it.

“Ah, the foxes are making sweet love in the garden. Or someone is murdering their child.”

We have red foxes where I live but they are only seen at night/very early morning. Always a treat to see one.

I’m glad Luddy is safe and sound in bed, behind Arlo. All confirms that Luddy is Arlo’s cat, or I should say, Arlo is Luddy’s human.

We had a family of foxes in the woods behind our house, and they did sound like a woman screaming!

Very few foxes in my area. Both the coyotes and mountain lions prey on them.

Back in ‘69 we were at the Grand Canyon. The ranger talked about how years earlier, they killed off almost all those bad pussycats (aka Mountain Lions) that were killing the Bambi’s. The population exploded and you could see through from one side of the forests all the way across. The deer had completely stripped all the leaves and small branches as far up as they could reach. Then they were finding deer that had starved to death.

I have never a seen a fox – or if I did I didn’t notice it and husband was smart enough to not mention it or point it out. (I am terrified of animals down to goldfish & smaller if there is smaller.) We live in a rather developed part of Long Island and I have always done so.

So these posts made me curious and I looked up if we have any here on the Island. Apparently we do. I am guessing they are in areas where it is not as settled by people or parkland areas.

Here’s what all kinds of animals say. Better than those old Speak and Say things that almost sounded weird. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE

A fox bark in the night is pretty eerie, but NOTHING compared to a pack of coyotes! That’s a sound that will raise the hair on your neck!