Urban Fox
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
After a few drinks in town on Sunday evening, Jonny and I were standing outside a take away waiting for our burgers when I spotted a fox about 15 metres away, just standing on the pavement.
I was a bit taken aback by it’s presence, but my instincts took over and I decided that I should chase it! Much to Jonny’s amusement I tore off across the road after it, chasing it into a car park only for the crafty thing to hide behind some cars and then double back to were I had first seen it.
I tried to take a few pics as evidence, but only managed a few blurry ones. The fox dived through a fence when I got closer.
Imagine my surprise when he appeared just 2 metres from me as I was stood in the doorway of my house having a cigarette just 10 minutes ago!
It seemed undeterred by my presence and carried on sniffing around for scraps of food – I reached for my camera phone only to realise that it was in my room on charge. I was tempted to run back upstairs for it, but didn’t want the little bugger deciding to come in for a look around.
Unfortunately on my return he was nowhere to be seen!
I find it quite odd that the fox is in such an urban area, and I’m more surprised that it seemed so accepting of human presence. These things are definitely vermin, scavenging like rats for whatever scraps they can find lying around, discarded on the ground.
I look forward to the day that my riding skills are good enough for me to join one of the hunts on horseback, rather than just as an observer.
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