This what I saw at 5 am

[silly4buttons]

I'm surprised it didn't just climb the fence. Chain link makes a nice ladder for them.

I'm in the town next door and had a fox kill 6 a couple of weeks ago. At 10 am. There's also a coyote trotting through early afternoon and 2 hawks hanging around. Wish they'd eat some of the red squirrels and rabbits.

I keep finding rabbit fur. I didn’t think of fox climbing the fence grrr I am sorry for your loss. The hawks have been flying over the pen and they tried to grab my next door neighbor small dogs luckily he was outside at the time and was looked out the window and ran out to help I didn’t think that they hunt in pairs

 

[silly4buttons]

You need to keep a loaded shotgun handy!

I wish I could but it’s a no no here but I am about getting a pellet gun

 

[silly4buttons]

I don't think we have fishers here...but I had no idea what it was until finally saw it with the spotlight standing on a big log 60' from back of house early one morning. The light didn't faze it one bit and it called several more times before loping away. It frequented my land all that summer.....and I have heard them since, now that I know what it is.
Raccoons, or just about any mammal, mating or fighting can raise the hair too.

The screaming is so creepy it goes right threw you. I had my earbuds in watching a movie on Netflix first I thought it was coming from the movie lol he was in my driveway screaming at my cats

 

[Tesumph]

Oof.. red flags, watch out for rabies. Maybe that’s normal behavior for that fox (hard to tell from description) but if it’s acting that bold in daylight.. just watch out, that’s the start of behavioral rabies signs. If it starts acting erratic, isn’t scared away easily, runs toward threats instead of away, or makes weird choking sounds, RUN. Don’t even mess with that thang, and call animal control ASAP. Probably not rabies but you never know. Screaming at cats isn’t exactly normal.

Or it could be hormonally crazy. The screams you hear in the middle of the night are actually mating calls. Could be a desperate male or a female with a den.

 

[Tesumph]

Before someone contradicts me with their “well the fox on my property is this bold” story, I know, they’re getting more desperate and have kits to feed this time of year. I’m just saying to play it safe and know what to watch out for.

 

[silly4buttons]

Before someone contradicts me with their “well the fox on my property is this bold” story, I know, they’re getting more desperate and have kits to feed this time of year. I’m just saying to play it safe and know what to watch out for.

The screaming is at night where I live they keep building and building and they are pushing the wildlife out in to neighborhoods it’s so said I have live here for 13 years and this is the first time I ever saw anything like this and to top it all my street is a Main Street the highway is a mile from me so constantly 18 wheeler

 

[Below frigid]

I wish I could but it’s a no no here but I am about getting a pellet gun

We lost a hen a few days back. Still not positive what got her. I found feathers a few days after she went missing. Whatever got here grabbed her just outside the fence and dragged her into the bushes and ate her there. That where I followed the feather trail to and find sort of a pile scattered about. It happened just after sunrise. Not positive but most likely fox or coyote, no bones just feathers. Thinking if a bobcat got her there would be more left than just feathers unless they carried her off. A lot of sitting and waiting to take them out with a gun. Trapping is our best bet. I have two live traps, unfortunately they are too small for fox or coyote.