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When life gets too crazy busy, stop and smell the daffodils, just like Pickles the fox, as photographed by Matt Binstead, who works at the British Wildlife Centre (probably the greatest job there is!): Link - via Krulwich Wonders
This beautiful fox in Yellowstone Park is not about to let a few feet of snow keep him from a tasty dinner. He listens to the mice scurrying about beneath the surface and then he makes his move.
Via Eclecticity
The Shard building is an 80-story tower in London that is still under construction. Workers on the Shard building project found a fox on the 72nd floor! The animal, named Romeo, survived on food scraps left by construction workers. He was captured and taken to Riverside Animal Centre in Wallington.
Ted Burden, the centre’s founder, said: “We explained to him that if foxes were meant to be 72 storeys off the ground, they would have evolved wings.
“We think he got the message and, as we released him back on to the streets of Bermondsey shortly after midnight on Sunday, he glanced at the Shard and then trotted off in the other direction.”
Romeo likely won’t get another chance to live in a penthouse. Link -via The Daily What
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“Firefox has encountered an unexpected problem with windows.” is the obvious comment at YouTube. -via The Daily What
How cute is this? Scout the fennec fox plays with his carrots before he eats them. -via I Am Bored
A hunter in Belarus saw the tables turn when he shot a fox and attempted to finish it off with the butt of his gun. The fox put up a ferocious struggle and somehow managed to pull the trigger with its paw, shooting the hunter in the leg. In the melee that ensued the fox managed to make good its escape leaving the hunter to explain how he became a fox’s prey.
Link – Via Canada, eh?
Three fox cubs got their heads stuck in a drain grate in Plainfield, Connecticut last Friday. Neighborhood residents could hear their mother calling for them from out of sight. After firefighters were unable to cut the grate, Animal Control Officer Karen Stone tried lubricating the pup’s heads with Vaseline, then corn oil, but had no luck. What finally did the trick was a dose of Dawn dishwashing detergent. The pups were freed from the grate and driven back to the area of their den, soapy but unharmed. Link -via Arbroath
Here’s a nifty little gadget sure to get you some attention, should you dare to try it on.
Tom Houk of Steamboat Springs, Colorado built a putting green in his yard, and got into the habit of leaving his golf balls where they landed until he returned. A few months ago, he woke to find all his golf balls gone! Houk produced more balls, but the next day, they would be gone, too. This continued until Houk finally spotted the thief.
A hairless fox was standing there with one of his golf balls in his mouth.
“We just couldn’t believe it and we thought he just snatched one,” Houk said.
The fox had more than one golf ball in mind.
“He doesn’t just take one ball,” Sally Houk said. “He came back and forth and back and forth until he took all of them.”
Tom Houk thinks the fox has taken nearly 100 of his golf balls.
What does a fox do with a hundred golf balls? Jerry Neal of the Colorado Division of Wildlife thinks he probably plays with them. No word on what size clubs the fox uses. Link -via Arbroath
A Chinese man found out the hard way why his Pomeranian dog was impossible to train: it’s actually a fox!
… he found the dog hard to tame, it would often bite him and had several unusual traits, he told the Wuhan Evening Post.
"It can’t bark but instead makes little ‘em em’ noises, and its tail has been growing longer and longer," he said.
"The most annoying thing is that starting this summer, the dog became very smelly. Even when we gave it a daily shampoo bath, the smell was still strong."
Zhang took his ‘dog’ to a local zoo for answers, and it turned out the dog is actually an Arctic fox, a protected rare species.
Link – via Scribal Terror
