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Violet's gone
The wayward fox has taken one of the rabbits. I saw this, the silhouetted form of the fox emerging from behind some trees with something rabbit-looking hanging from its mouth. Moments earlier we were watching the fox cross among the shrubs and shadows, and it stopped to rummage in some bushes... I went out to the area later on and there were definite signs of a struggle in the snow. So it goes.
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2011/11/snowy-valentine-my-1st-part-2-last-week.html
I do not want to appear callous, I just have to remind myself that this is the way of the world. There had been a rabbit in the fenced part of the yard earlier in the morning and the dog didn't see it right away. I watched it for a bit, standing stock still as The Huntress sniffed about, and then the chase was on. I wonder if this was the same little bunny :o(
*sigh* I even made some bad jokes later, that either the fox would appear dragging a deer next, or vice versa. And then came a trio of hawks, gliding above, and while thinking "Ride of the Valkyries" I imagined them hauling off one of the deer as well.
This entry was originally posted at http://moonhare.dreamwidth.org/41147.html.
http://davidpetersen.blogspot.com/2011/11/snowy-valentine-my-1st-part-2-last-week.html
I do not want to appear callous, I just have to remind myself that this is the way of the world. There had been a rabbit in the fenced part of the yard earlier in the morning and the dog didn't see it right away. I watched it for a bit, standing stock still as The Huntress sniffed about, and then the chase was on. I wonder if this was the same little bunny :o(
*sigh* I even made some bad jokes later, that either the fox would appear dragging a deer next, or vice versa. And then came a trio of hawks, gliding above, and while thinking "Ride of the Valkyries" I imagined them hauling off one of the deer as well.
This entry was originally posted at http://moonhare.dreamwidth.org/41147.html.
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Incidentally, tonight leaving for my night shift I saw a fox taking off from our garden. A big one. So now I suppose s/he's the one who's been leaving pawprints on snow all winter and shitting around the garden since the autumn... Some years ago there was a leveret in our garden who sadly lived just a couple of days before s/he was eaten and hindlegs left behind :( Not sure if neighbor's cat or a fox was guilty. But it could be the fox is checking out if hares have been leaving leverets around again. Or that s/he can smell my rabbits through the rabbit room ventilation - though luckily there's no way in there.
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