A Fantastic Pair

Wonderful photos Linda. You're so lucky to get such beautiful visitors ...

Lovely to catch up on this (and other threads), I can only imagine how our fox cubs are progressing. I see your are still growing in to their ears, but really starting to look more like adult foxes, and those legs, still a bit stubby, but it won't be long  until they're sleek slim running legs.

Returned home last night after a lovely family meal out to celebrate my dads birthday and retirement.....

I thought I had an imposter waiting for me!!!

My girl has somehow acquired a black beard in the last 24hrs lol

Maybe it's all the rage these days... !!!

Linda257 said:

Cheers Mike.

I guess being young they're just cautious.

Ours are (were) captured on the trailcams, so would often be alone, though no doubt one of the parents will be close by. So we often had footage covering many minutes of foraging and feeding, sometimes as long as 20 mins.

Digressing.

Talking of foxes, recently watched a film called "The Belstone Fox" all about a fox cub that was hand reared after becoming orphaned when a group of poachers hunting foxes using terriers, opened up the den killing the vixen and her cubs.

However, one cub survived, and a wise old countryman, Tod (played by Bill Travers who along with his actress wife Virginia McKenna, back then were very much against animal cruelty and between them set up the Born Free Foundation many years later) rescued the cub, took him to a hunt kennel which he had connections where the Huntsman, (the person that looks after the hounds and trains them), places the cub with a bitch who'd just whelped, not expecting the cub to survive.

One of the hounds befriends the fox cub, so a very special bond is built up.

It is a film made in the early 70's so it will embrace and evolve around the attitudes to fox hunting at the time.