Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Mangey Fox
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Welcome to my backyard. This blog is about the wildlife that lives and travels through our yard in suburban Northern Virginia. The yard borders a park and has a small, man-made pond. Foxes have used the space under our deck as a den for their babies. Raccoons like to raid our compost bins, and green frogs produce tadpoles in our pond each spring. We also have deer, chipmunks, squirrels, birds, a shrew, a toad, a snake, a turtle, and even a bat.
2 comments:
Difficult to be sure from the photo, but it does look like there may be some mange on his rump. Unless he visits very frequently there's not anything you can do.
He's not totally mangey but the fact that he was scratching seemed like he probably is mangey, although it could be worse. I'm not sure how thin their coats get normally in warmer weather. I'll have to see if he starts coming around more looking for a handout.
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