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Saw 2 last night as I was walking my dog...they walked right out behind us, my dog started to growl and lunge a bit and they briskly walked across the street looking at her like they wanted no part. They walked into someones front yard and just kept going.
Call animal control, those things can be rabid and are a danger to neighborhood kids and animals in particular.
Because if I bothered it, it could get aggressive, and it could be rabid. One never knows. "Resting" and beginning to get sick are probably are not easy to differentiate.
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Originally Posted by C_Lan
I was questioning why they told you to stay far away. It was resting, not exhibiting aggressive behavior.
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One of the agents in my office came in with a photo of a fox. It was in her yard with baby foxes! It seems strange to have all these fox sightings. I don't remember seeing that many in the area as we are now.
I live in Stone Creek and my husband walks the greenway with our 2 little Shih Tzus twice a day. We receieved a notice from our HOA yesterday informing us of the fox attacks. Foxes are generally timid animals. I'd bet that this fox is rabid, based on it's behavior.
I have been told that foxes (and coyotes) have become a huge problem over in Preston as well this summer. I also recently heard (but don't know if it is true) that a couple of smaller dogs were attacked and injured or killed in that area by foxes recently.
No surprise about an increase in fox activity in Preston. Consider the number of acres of habitat that just got completely razed for the new Target. The displaced wildlife are trying to find somewhere to go. I'm sure they'll get killed off eventually and we'll forget all about them while walking the paved cart path through the picturesque woodland to Target.
That's probably the best thing to do. But it's so sad that when you do, they are eventually killed. By law.
I don't know if rabies are a BIG problem yet. I know rabies was spreading down from the north and up from the south, and it was destined to eventually be a big problem here. I don't know if we're "there" yet.
Maybe we are. It looks like raccoons are a bigger problem according to this map: http://www.bah.state.mn.us/diseases/rabies/images/rabies-map.gif (broken link)
Considering that we have laws that every dog and cat must be vaccinated against rabies and it is still a chronic problem I think we've been 'there' for a very long time. Very interesting disease!
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