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EllieMay

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It is difficult to take pictures because it is dark when the foxes come. I have a street latern in front of the house but I`m not sure that this light will be bright enough to make pictures but I can try.

Understood. I wouldn’t want you to have to frighten them for me. THANKS
 

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It is difficult to take pictures because it is dark when the foxes come. I have a street latern in front of the house but I`m not sure that this light will be bright enough to make pictures but I can try.
Yes and if you disturb them? I wish my eyes were a camera...with night vision. My best pictures are the ones that got away because I didn't have the right camera or quick enough reflexes.
 

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I am feeding a fox ( family ) every evening 8 m away from my front door. Mrs. and Mr. Fox appeared some weeks ago, searching for not eaten cat food. Because I have chicken in my front yard, I started feeding the foxes that they don`t want to eat my chicken. So every evening I put out some cheap dog or cat food and sometimes 3 or 4 eggs and pig bones. From the window of my living room I watch when Mrs. or Mr. Fox appear to eat . It is funny watching them. I like foxes. They are not bad. When they find enough food they let my chicken live and I hope that maybe at the end of May or in June Mr. and Mrs. Fox bring their little foxes to show them where they get food.
At one point, in the last couple years or so, a mama fox had babies either under my house, under the garden shed, or in the wooded lot next door. I never actually saw the kits, but heard them. I saw and heard the mum fox calling to them to follow her.

That family of foxes drove my indoor-only Cat-mittee CRAZY. Fortunately, the foxes didn't stay long.

Foxes are known to carry rabies, especially in this part of Florida. Somebody I used to know (used to work with) was bitten by a rabid fox, a decade or so ago.
 

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Yep. I was telling a lady today at hobby lobby...put out some dog food and the oposums will let your plants live.
I never had problems with opossums eating plants. Years ago, there was an opossum that came onto our front porch to eat cat food we put out for Loki (back when Loki was a feral outside cat)... Until the baby-daddy of Loki's first litter of kittens intervened. He made the opossum BACK DOWN and leave the food untouched.
 

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There is just no way I can catch up. I’ve been gone for almost two weeks packing and moving. We moved into our new house last Friday. I just got internet installed today. Things are starting to get back to normal. We still have 1.5 storage units to unload by the end of the month.
Moving the tortoises was HORRIBLE. We closed on our old house on Friday and had to be completely out of our old house by 10:30am but not allowed in our new house until later that day, 2:00. The torts lived in totes starting Thursday morning and Eric started dismantling all the fencing that day. Thursday and Friday were full of lightning storms and flash flooding. We still had to do it. My poor husband loves me so much. The 4x8 sulcata house took five people to move it out of the back yard. We almost squished a teenager a few times. We are LOVING our new place though. Lots of hard work to get it all done, but we did it and are still working on it.
The kids are enjoying the pool. We had our first pool party today.

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Hahahahaha...but hoping you get your leg up and running soon.
Welcome back Ray, I bet Opo was sulking because you were away.
Glad you had a good break and hope the docs can sort out the leg socket for you sooner rather than later.
Thanks Lyn, the prothetis is pretty good. Hopefully they can adjust in office and not send out.
 

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There is just no way I can catch up. I’ve been gone for almost two weeks packing and moving. We moved into our new house last Friday. I just got internet installed today. Things are starting to get back to normal. We still have 1.5 storage units to unload by the end of the month.
Moving the tortoises was HORRIBLE. We closed on our old house on Friday and had to be completely out of our old house by 10:30am but not allowed in our new house until later that day, 2:00. The torts lived in totes starting Thursday morning and Eric started dismantling all the fencing that day. Thursday and Friday were full of lightning storms and flash flooding. We still had to do it. My poor husband loves me so much. The 4x8 sulcata house took five people to move it out of the back yard. We almost squished a teenager a few times. We are LOVING our new place though. Lots of hard work to get it all done, but we did it and are still working on it.
The kids are enjoying the pool. We had our first pool party today.

Moving the torts sounds stressful!! Yay hubby!!
The pool party looks fun!!
Congratulations on your new home!!
 

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I am feeding a fox ( family ) every evening 8 m away from my front door. Mrs. and Mr. Fox appeared some weeks ago, searching for not eaten cat food. Because I have chicken in my front yard, I started feeding the foxes that they don`t want to eat my chicken. So every evening I put out some cheap dog or cat food and sometimes 3 or 4 eggs and pig bones. From the window of my living room I watch when Mrs. or Mr. Fox appear to eat . It is funny watching them. I like foxes. They are not bad. When they find enough food they let my chicken live and I hope that maybe at the end of May or in June Mr. and Mrs. Fox bring their little foxes to show them where they get food.

That would be so cool! Foxes are cute. Wish I had them in my backyard. Wait, I don’t have a backyard.
 

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Jayden learned a valuable lesson about his fingers while feeding Toretto... DONT GET THEM TOO CLOSE... he got nicked... didn’t phase him but for a second... now he requires a stem on whatever he may be feeding:) I always tell him not to let Toretto eat all the way to his hand.. He won’t forget now [emoji33]

Ouch. Been there. :(
 

Kristoff

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There is just no way I can catch up. I’ve been gone for almost two weeks packing and moving. We moved into our new house last Friday. I just got internet installed today. Things are starting to get back to normal. We still have 1.5 storage units to unload by the end of the month.
Moving the tortoises was HORRIBLE. We closed on our old house on Friday and had to be completely out of our old house by 10:30am but not allowed in our new house until later that day, 2:00. The torts lived in totes starting Thursday morning and Eric started dismantling all the fencing that day. Thursday and Friday were full of lightning storms and flash flooding. We still had to do it. My poor husband loves me so much. The 4x8 sulcata house took five people to move it out of the back yard. We almost squished a teenager a few times. We are LOVING our new place though. Lots of hard work to get it all done, but we did it and are still working on it.
The kids are enjoying the pool. We had our first pool party today.

Even a pool party already! :)
Congratulations, Tricia! Glad the hardest part is over. The torts will be happy in the new place too, by the looks of it.
 

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