As happened last year, a family of foxes have made a home under the boardwalk on our local beach. As last year, they have provided endless fascination for the tourists, despite the fencing and plastic shielding that has been erected around them to stop idiots from feeding and taking invasive selfies with them.
But, also as last year, two of the kits have just been reported dead near the den. Last year, one kit died at the hands (or, rather, fangs) of a local dog - The Beaches is Dog Walking Central, and not everyone keeps their animals on a leash. The deaths this year have not yet been pinned on a dog in so many words, and the circumstance are even more suspicious and mysterious: a camera set up to monitor the fox family was also vandalized and, even more worrying, so was the house of one of the volunteers who has been helping to look after the foxes.
Are the fox deaths the work of some misguided animal liberation type, then? I think the foxes need to be deterred in the future. This is not a good place to bring up kits.
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