*the vixen comes out in the gloom, no moon this night, very wet. All the better, the creatures she'll hunt will be out of their holes and dens and hutches. She pauses to sniff and theres the stinky smell of the humans, how can they stand that stench? It lingers so long...no matter. With a look back at the sleeping kits she pads, with tounge out, towards the place where she got a chicken before. The humans make diffenent noises their, and they aren't very smart. Not like the dog on the other side, he got the point (and swore at her in a vauge dialect that all canids share).
Chicken for dinner? Or Vole? Or Rat?
Hmm...Rat...
She gets into the barn in a way only she knows about and the boys snort. Tess peers at her. "You better get your tail out of here!"
Tess isn't amused by vixen's, but the vixen dashes off and shows up in the dark with a wiggling screaming rat and the rat dies with a shake of the vixen's head.
Yeah, something like that anyway. Actually, we have two barns, or a barn and an arena. The boys' stalls are in the little barn along with the rabbit cages, while Tess has hers in the arena with the sheep in a pen on the far side from her. I don't think the fox has been in the little barn, which is too bad in a way because it has plenty of mouse activity.
We haven't seen a rat around for several years, thank goodness. The fox does, as you suggest, have tunnels that would get her from outside right into the arena (dirt floors) even when all the doors are shut. She might find mice in there, because there's a lot of hay stored on one side. There have occasionally been woodchucks or possums in there too. She's more than welcome to hunt in there as long as she doesn't burrow into the hay. I'll remind Tess of that. ;p
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Except for the smell of course.
Loom away sir!
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this night, very wet. All the better, the
creatures she'll hunt will be out of their
holes and dens and hutches. She pauses to
sniff and theres the stinky smell of the
humans, how can they stand that stench? It
lingers so long...no matter. With a look
back at the sleeping kits she pads, with
tounge out, towards the place where she
got a chicken before. The humans make
diffenent noises their, and they aren't
very smart. Not like the dog on the other
side, he got the point (and swore at her
in a vauge dialect that all canids share).
Chicken for dinner? Or Vole? Or Rat?
Hmm...Rat...
She gets into the barn in a way only she
knows about and the boys snort. Tess
peers at her. "You better get your tail
out of here!"
Tess isn't amused by vixen's, but the
vixen dashes off and shows up in the dark
with a wiggling screaming rat and the
rat dies with a shake of the vixen's
head.
Tess, not exactly impressed is ( ... )
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We haven't seen a rat around for several years, thank goodness. The fox does, as you suggest, have tunnels that would get her from outside right into the arena (dirt floors) even when all the doors are shut. She might find mice in there, because there's a lot of hay stored on one side. There have occasionally been woodchucks or possums in there too. She's more than welcome to hunt in there as long as she doesn't burrow into the hay. I'll remind Tess of that. ;p
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