Having been completely AWOL for weeks, Limpy paid us a visit just on the day Dave wanted to do work on his raised beds.
A much calmer day thank goodness after last week's mayhem. Which was good as I'd had a restless night with freaky dreams. Didn't quite catch up with business as usual stuff, but certainly no hectic moments. I even got out to Zumba at lunchtime. Boss is still sick unfortunately, confirmed now as COVID. Another stupid insensitive email from unit leader who obviously has no idea what we do.
Dave in the garden most of the day, raking over the gravel to start the raised beds. These will go down the middle, where the path is now. Two new gravel paths will go down either side.
3 good things
1. Back to Zumba after the previous weeks' mayhem - nice to have a calm day.
2. The sunshine continues, a nice gentle cycle ride back from Zumba.
3. Mint Magnums are the bee's knees!
Oh dear Limpy hasn’t wintered very well has he….he looks a bit pathetic sitting there…I think he’s asking you for something!
Good to think ahead about growing your own….I’m thinking we need to think ahead about such things….we need to feed ourselves & less of the air miles! I shall watch with interest!
Superb photo, so easy with you now isn't he? If you can, have a google for mange treatment. Some places do it for free, others for a tenner as mange can be lethal. We did it in Leeds, for a fox and also our squirrels who, we presumed, caught it off the fox. Just hid the meds in peanut butter for the squirrels and meat for the foxes, worked a treat! :-)
Thanks all and for your concern about Limpy. Limpy is actually a she. She has a bad leg hence her name. It's been like that for over a year and she seems to do OK with it. We knew her mother who would visit the garden and was the loveliest most well behaved fox ever, no digging up anything, no pooing or weeing. She had at least 2 cubs - this one and Fernanda who's always a bit gormless. Limpy is much brighter and with it. They must be a good 3 years old now.
We rarely feed them, throwing out old scraps occasionally. It's not a good idea to feed them regularly or frequently but people do and it can lead to problems - either foxes becoming reliant on the handouts or over familiar with humans.
@boxplayer It's so nice to see a sensible person with foxes. They are beautiful, for sure and it's good to help in the right way.
My neighbour heavily feeds a fox, started with lockdown boredom, except now it's 6 regular foxes instead of 1 and counting. When Lucy did her leg in (which lead to the x-ray overdose) and had trouble getting away from danger, I asked said neighbour if I could take the food from her every night and put it further away as the foxes were in our garden and trying to get into our house via the catflap. I tried to explain that there's so many foxes now and the foxes don't understand which house is ok to go to and which not to go to. She took offence and hasn't spoken to me since! The saddest thing of all is the foxes also ate from the belly up two of our lovely hedgehogs that have visited for a few years last summer :-(
Good to think ahead about growing your own….I’m thinking we need to think ahead about such things….we need to feed ourselves & less of the air miles! I shall watch with interest!
Nice one!
Ian
Thanks all and for your concern about Limpy. Limpy is actually a she. She has a bad leg hence her name. It's been like that for over a year and she seems to do OK with it. We knew her mother who would visit the garden and was the loveliest most well behaved fox ever, no digging up anything, no pooing or weeing. She had at least 2 cubs - this one and Fernanda who's always a bit gormless. Limpy is much brighter and with it. They must be a good 3 years old now.
We rarely feed them, throwing out old scraps occasionally. It's not a good idea to feed them regularly or frequently but people do and it can lead to problems - either foxes becoming reliant on the handouts or over familiar with humans.
My neighbour heavily feeds a fox, started with lockdown boredom, except now it's 6 regular foxes instead of 1 and counting. When Lucy did her leg in (which lead to the x-ray overdose) and had trouble getting away from danger, I asked said neighbour if I could take the food from her every night and put it further away as the foxes were in our garden and trying to get into our house via the catflap. I tried to explain that there's so many foxes now and the foxes don't understand which house is ok to go to and which not to go to. She took offence and hasn't spoken to me since! The saddest thing of all is the foxes also ate from the belly up two of our lovely hedgehogs that have visited for a few years last summer :-(