MossRoad
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- Power Trac PT425 2001 Model Year
If the fox is there, it'll find a natural diet. Putting out food will most likely attract other critters. I'd just enjoy it while it's there.
When we put our above ground pool in, I added an extra foot of sand to make it shallower for the kids. Many years later, we got a new pool wall, so I took the extra sand away as the kids were grown, and made a nice store pile with it in the way back of our yard about 4' high. The next time I mowed the lawn, the pile was only 2' high and 3 times the diameter. What the heck? I looked at it and there were little tiny tracks all over the entire pile. Later that evening, sitting on our pool deck, 4 baby foxes came out of the woods and were wrestling all over that sand pile while their mom laid nearby, resting I'm sure. Very cute to see. They were gone the next year. See foxes come and go quite a bit.
I've heard that coyotes don't tolerate foxes so well, so if you have foxes, coyote numbers might be down, and vice versa.
When we put our above ground pool in, I added an extra foot of sand to make it shallower for the kids. Many years later, we got a new pool wall, so I took the extra sand away as the kids were grown, and made a nice store pile with it in the way back of our yard about 4' high. The next time I mowed the lawn, the pile was only 2' high and 3 times the diameter. What the heck? I looked at it and there were little tiny tracks all over the entire pile. Later that evening, sitting on our pool deck, 4 baby foxes came out of the woods and were wrestling all over that sand pile while their mom laid nearby, resting I'm sure. Very cute to see. They were gone the next year. See foxes come and go quite a bit.
I've heard that coyotes don't tolerate foxes so well, so if you have foxes, coyote numbers might be down, and vice versa.
