I visited Virginia twice this year to be with family for a medical emergency. First visit I was distantly aware the foxes we knew from childhood placenames had become more present. Bringing my pup this fall it was astonishing. The foxes are EVERYWHERE, and they’re appropriately cautious about contact but otherwise happy to be about town if you’re not a hint of a threat.
People say they’re overpopulated, but mostly because they feel inconvenienced by habitat that was there before them and has adapted to them almost invisibly. You MIGHT hear them from a porch if you know what to listen for. You’ll only see them if they don’t feel threatened too. Whenever I asked, people who were concerned about their presence were very surprised to hear I’d seen them pass through. They didn’t mind me and my visiting city pup sliding through along with them though.
People say they’re overpopulated, but mostly because they feel inconvenienced by habitat that was there before them and has adapted to them almost invisibly. You MIGHT hear them from a porch if you know what to listen for. You’ll only see them if they don’t feel threatened too. Whenever I asked, people who were concerned about their presence were very surprised to hear I’d seen them pass through. They didn’t mind me and my visiting city pup sliding through along with them though.