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> For several nights my husband has been seeing two animals. One larger

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> other, the larger being about a third larger than the smaller. I got to

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> tonight on the fence. It had a long, bushy tail, beautiful detail and

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> I didn't see the color as it was too dark and the flashlight didn't do it.
>
> When it finally ran off it made a sound like a gravelly roar, not a

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> found something which sounds very much like what I heard:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest...ds/FoxChirp.wav
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> "Bourne Identity" <siriusly@siriusradioisbest.com> wrote in message
> news:6315a1dcqt32aqdtqsqai7r70cbmu5omji@4ax.com...
> than the
> see it
> smooth.
> screech. I
> possibly a gray fox???
>
> http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/uroccine.htm
>
> "The gray fox is essentially an inhabitant of wooded areas, particularly
> mixed hardwood forests. It is common throughout the wooded sections east of
> the shortgrass plains and in the pinyon-juniper community above the low
> lying deserts."
>
>
>

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>In article <gKwoe.2519$RV5.2486@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
> "suzilem" <slemcke@deflectprocessedmeat.texas.net> wrote:
>
>
>I found a fresh road killed gray fox just this last Christmas on one of
>the Suburban roads in New Braunfels... Flatlands. Searches for food
>will drive them out of normal habitats.
>
>There are foxes around here. About as common as bobcats.
>
>There are also occasionally cougars.
>
>And plenty of coyotes. :-P

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> Thanks everyone. It definitely looks like the gray fox. Now, there are two of
> them. If one of them is half the size could that possibly be offspring, or are
> the males that much larger? I will do some research myself, and I absolutely
> love that a fox would choose my property to live, but if they reproduce and have
> 6 pups, what then?
>
> The rabbit is nowhere to be found, so it either smelled the fox or one of the
> foxes turned a rabbit into fox.
>
> Victoria

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> In article <gKwoe.2519$RV5.2486@newssvr30.news.prodigy.com>,
> "suzilem" <slemcke@deflectprocessedmeat.texas.net> wrote:
>
>
> I found a fresh road killed gray fox just this last Christmas on one of
> the Suburban roads in New Braunfels... Flatlands. Searches for food
> will drive them out of normal habitats.
>
> There are foxes around here. About as common as bobcats.
>
> There are also occasionally cougars.
>
> And plenty of coyotes. :-P

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>
>I live in Great Hills/Arboretum area and we have quite a few gray foxes
>around here.
>

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> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 14:59:52 GMT, "charliekilo" <miles_kramer@hotmail.com>
> opined:
>
>
>
> Yes, after several late nights out back with flashlights we spotted two
> pups and
> a mom. They live in a den somewhere under our shed. At least that's one
> of
> their entrances. I'm not going to do anything about them. The pups will
> leave
> and they are said to be solitary for the most part. I'm concerned about
> the
> cardinal nest with three chicks in it. She made her nest in the rosa
> rugosa
> this year. A bit too low for my liking, but I'll watch it. I think these
> fox
> have really cleaned up the rodent population we had back there. At one
> time I
> saw at least eleven of them on the bird feeder way out at the end of the
> property.
>
> V

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> "Bourne Identity" <siriusly@siriusradioisbest.com> wrote in message
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>
> My folks live in the Pine Forest in Bastrop county, just east of the city of
> Bastrop near Hwy 71..Early one morning I walked out the door and saw one of
> these guys running up the road..Was very cool...
> John
>
>

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> For several nights my husband has been seeing two animals. One larger
> than the
> other, the larger being about a third larger than the smaller. I got to
> see it
> tonight on the fence. It had a long, bushy tail, beautiful detail and
> smooth.
> I didn't see the color as it was too dark and the flashlight didn't do it.
>
> When it finally ran off it made a sound like a gravelly roar, not a
> screech. I
> found something which sounds very much like what I heard:
>
> http://www.geocities.com/RainForest...ds/FoxChirp.wav
>
> I looked at the Texas Parks and Wildlife website, but all they list is one
> kind
> of fox, and it is not supposed to live this far east in Texas. However,
> it is
> listed as living in open prairie, short and tall grass. Recently, on
> SH-79 they
> have literally removed hundreds of acres to build a new Walmart, an HEB
> going
> in, and tons of those shit bag houses that all look exactly alike, all
> three
> feet from the other.
>
> I did see a rabbit the other day for a few days and now it is not here any
> more. Coincidence? I also have not seen near as many lizards as I
> normally
> see. I can count how many I've seen this year, as opposed to every other
> year
> seeing many dozens daily.
>
> So, do we have any Master Naturalists out there?
>
> Victoria

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>
>My folks live in the Pine Forest in Bastrop county, just east of the city of
>Bastrop near Hwy 71..Early one morning I walked out the door and saw one of
>these guys running up the road..Was very cool...
>John
>

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>There are foxs in the woods around the houses on Red Bud (just up from 79)
>and the field between 79 and the diamond (towards the south).
>
>- Barney
>"Bourne Identity" <siriusly@siriusradioisbest.com> wrote in message
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> There are foxs in the woods around the houses on Red Bud (just up from 79)
> and the field between 79 and the diamond (towards the south).
>
> - Barney