Lots of information about red foxes with this article.

Crowded by Coyotes, Foxes Move to City
By Tim Evans, The Indianapolis Star
June 16, 2006

BROWNSBURG, Ind. -- Leisa Wagner has shared the backyard of her home with rabbits, squirrels and raccoons for years. Now a new breed has joined the menagerie of wildlife in Wagner's neighborhood: red foxes.

"We see them mainly from about April to early June. They are a lot of fun to watch, especially when the babies come out," she said. "You know when they are out there because the birds start making a lot of noise."

Wagner's home, in an older neighborhood on Brownsburg's southeastside, wouldn't seem like the kind of place foxes would set up home and raise their young. But a growing number of foxes are moving into towns across Indiana, said Wayne Bivans, chief of wildlife for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. The abundance of mature trees and a drainage ditch that resembles a small creek in Wagner's neighborhood provide cover for them.

The shift is the result of the foxes being driven from rural habitats -- not by the encroachment of humans or new development, but by an expanding population of coyotes, he said.

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That's happening in Texas too. I'm starting to see more and more fox in the greenbelt areas of Austin, while coyotes are eating the pets of those that live on the outskirts.

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"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

Oddly enough, I live way north of Boston and the coyotes are getting thick up here too. Not around my little piece of real estate because some cranky old guy keeps shooting them (that would be me), but I have seen them even in the downtown city parks.

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*scowl* They're cute!

COYOTES ?????

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

Yes, "COYOTES ?????"...!

I'll send ya one !:eek2:

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

Plenty of room and pine trees in my back yard..

One snarling,mangy coyote on the way---hide your cat--they eat em.

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"Some men eventually stumble over the truth but they usually pick themselves up and walk on as if nothing ever happened."
-Winston Churchill

"But though there is no difference in this respect between the best demagogue and the worst, both of them having to present their cases equally in terms of melodrama, there is all the difference in the world between the statesman who is humbugging the people into allowing him to do the will of God, in whatever disguise it may come to him, and one who is humbugging them into furthering his personal ambition and the commercial interests of the plutocrats who own the newspapers and support him on reciprocal terms."
-George Bernard Shaw

You obviously don't know Skittles. :mm:

We’ve been seeing a few young black bear show up in the Northern suburbs of Atlanta every spring-early summer, for the last few years.. Indication of habitat lose, probably. The Atlanta sprawl has almost reached the North Ga Mountains.
Very sad.

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I suspect that if there were a coyote around, they would get to know Skittles really well....once.

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"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee

Cranky old guys ARE cute! Thanks for noticing!

As for the coyotes, they kind of pissed me off when they ate my two little dogs. That was war, right then and there.

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"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Gen. Robert E. Lee