Something I have forgotten to mention is the foxes that we have around here. They are like stray cats, almost, and live under houses in our neighborhood. We have seen them on walls, crossing a busy street, staring us down on our neighborhood sidewalk. We have seen more foxes in the past few weeks (or maybe the same fox) than in our whole lives. On one hand, it's very cool to see a fox. Foxes are very beautiful animals--cat-like and dog-like at the same time and extremely graceful and silent in their movements. The other night we stopped and the fox stopped and we had a stare down from about 6 feet away on the sidewalk. The fox definitely wasn't afraid of us.
On the other hand, it's sad to see a fox in the middle of an urban setting, because that means that we have encroached on their natural habitat. Foxes aren't supposed to be living under houses and perusing city streets and scaling walls and dodging traffic.
So I have mixed emotions about the urban foxes here, but I always hope that we'll see one while we're out in the evenings.
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