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Our Murdous Neighborbood Fox


As you may have read in the my earlier post (Luka's Misadventure),we have a murderous fox in the neighborhood. He's lurks about day and night. So far he's killed the pet rabbit next door, a cat the night Luka (one of my cats) went missing and two seagulls 2 nights running. Tonight, I caught Luka chasing the fox. The photo is of the fox looking down at him after being chased onto the fence while I was yelling out the window for the cat to get the hell in the house. I only took the picture because Wayne was on his way out of the house to get Luka in.
The creepy thing about the fox is that he's not afraid of people. He was in the yard next door the other day looking for food and when he saw me, he glanced at me and kept roaming around the yard and the day of Ethan's party, he sat on our fence and watched us for a few minutes before we chased him away. I'm not quite sure what to do about it. I've tried keeping my cats in, but they cry all day and stalk me until I open the door. I'm afraid for them, but my husband swears to me they only hunt at night and my cats are in before dark. I just don't want it to end badly.
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Stephen Fulgham said…
Hey Erren,

Thank you for this blog. I couldn't find how else to contact you so I hope you see this post. My wife and I are planning to move(leaning towards Spain) fro NY in a year(girls will be 2 and 4). Have had a hard time getting any advice and in early stages of research.

Any advice you could offer woudl be appreciated. Where did you move to?

Thank you in advance

Stephen, Marie, Emma and Ava
7:15 PM
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