Seems we have another cat...at least, I think it's a cat. This thing is larger than many foxes, but it's big, fluffy and orange and white like an orange creamsicle. DH told me weeks ago that he saw what looked like a huge orange and white cat near the coops when the chickens were alarming. I never saw it.
This morning at daybreak, I heard my Delaware rooster, Isaac, making an odd alarm call with the strangest tone, but all others were stone silent. I got out of bed and parted the blinds just in time to see a window screen we prop in front of the large picture window of the main coop falling and a humongous cat-like thing shooting out from underneath it. The window has a hardware cloth screen inside so no way anything short of a bear could get in, but the window is directly in front of the main roost and less than 2 ft from the ground. We put the screen there in case it rains, maybe it will deflect some water from getting inside the coop and we can leave the window full open in summer. Not sure if the cat was trying to get to the chickens or just trying to see in or what, but that thing was big enough to easily take down a full grown chicken if it was so inclined. Wish I'd gotten a look at it standing still. I wondered if maybe it could be an oddly colored fox because of the size, but I got the impression it was super fluffy like a Persian type cat, not sleek, and didn't see a tail.
