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Old 05-07-2012, 09:50 AM
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Default Fox sightings

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Originally Posted by Ragman View Post
Last night just before sundown we saw a red fox vixen and two kits in the rocks by the pond behind our house. They were really cute with Mom keeping watch while the youngsters ran and played.

We are at least 1 1/2 miles from the edge of the development and I was surprised they were in this far. Anyone else seen any?

Maybe all the construction to the south ran them out.
I have been in The Villages for almost nine years and have seen foxes a half dozen times. The last time was a month ago about 8AM. I was talking to my daughter on the phone and spotted one trotting across the Hacienda golf course behind my house. When I informed my daughter of the sighting she told me that there would be a lot more foxes around if I hadn't shot so many 40 years ago. (1500 mile north of here!)