Thursday 5 April 2012

Yesssss!

Now, I wasn't sure if the vixen was expecting or not. I think the general consensus of opinion was that she did look rather bulgy. But since then, her teats haven't looked particularly obvious. the way they did last year, though she and the dog fox have been begging for food several times a day, which is a significant behaviour change, as usually they vixen only appears once, in the evening, and we hardly see the dog at all.

Last night, I was just turning the kitchen light out at around 11pm when the garden security light came on and there was the vixen, nose pressed to the glass to see if there was anybody up. She then sat down on the deck and that's when I saw that her teats were indeed full of milk. So she HAS had cubs and hopefully, in a few weeks' time, she will bring them into the garden like she did last year. She is such a good mum.


Here's a photo I took yesterday, of her eating stale chocolate cake. I didn't think she looked as if she was feeding cubs. Perhaps her undercarriage is a bit saggier than it was last year!

3 comments:

Jackie Sayle said...

Will look forward to keeping up with the cub/s progress. Does Mrs. Reynard have mange? Her coat doesn't look too good and her brush is thin.

Not a sight nor sound of 'our' foxes this year.

hydra said...

She looked just like this last year and I thought she had mange, but hew coat grew back again once the cubs were weaned. If it doesn't, I shall send for more 'fox drops' and add them to her food.

Teresa Ashby said...

How lovely - can't wait to see photos when the cubs come visiting x