Dead Fox in the MIddle of the Road
This morning as I made my early rounds, I saw a dead cat on the road outside our house.
“How sad,” I thought, “someone’s sweet kitty didn’t make it across the road.” It is odd, though, you don’t see a lot of cats here outside. Most people keep their cats inside, or within a limited area outdoors.
When AdventureMan got up, he said the same thing. We hoped someone hadn’t just dumped a cat out there; we know there are cases where people just can’t care for their animals anymore, but there are places that will take domestic pets in and try to re-home them. Just to dump them is so unfair to an animal who is used to being fed and (hopefully) loved.
AdventureMan got a couple heavy duty garbage bags and we double bagged them. He put on some non-latex rubber gloves and we headed to the road. When he picked up the dead cat, we got a real surprise. It wasn’t a cat at all, but a skinny little fox! Also very dead, and not very healthy looking.
We both scrubbed down, and hope that we didn’t get any kind of rabies virus or anything else on us, but meanwhile, I am wondering – where on earth would a fox make a burrow in our suburban neighborhood? I am sure he was heading down to the bayou for a drink; it hasn’t rained for a couple days now and he must have known there was water in the bayou (although not great water to drink with all the contaminants flowing into it from lawns and gardens and car washing, etc. ) but where does a fox family live??
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You guys never cease to surprise me, If it was in Kuwait or India people would have run over dead fox the entire day till cat became ‘chapati’ and dried naturally … no? 😆
GreY – sometimes. I guess you just do what you gotta do. I know you don’t like stray cats, and you have your reasons. Our Qatari Cat was a street cat; we still have to be careful if he is sick or frightened; he has those old instincts and he is fast and strong. But to leave a dead body in the street to become muck . . . we can’t do it.
That’s what I meant, there are so many things we have to learn, I see dead cats all the time in Kuwait and they just dry up after thousands of cars run over them, It’s hard to find people like you 🙂
About stray cats, I’m still furious, just today they have pissed all over my door, and my building gets washed once in a week, so we have to bare the stink for someone else’s charity (but I have sprayed chilli powder so they don’t do it again, Sorry if this sounds insane)
Also I am upset with people who graze dogs allowing them to pee on my car tire, that’s damn irresponsible of some people.
GreY, I totally agree. People with dogs need to be careful where they pee, and they need to pick up their poop. Most of our cities have laws requiring this. While I love France, holy smokes, if you are walking in Paris, you constantly need to watch where you are walking, it is the worst city in the world for dog poop!
I suspect we pick up dead animals off the road for selfish reasons. I can’t bear to see them there, dead and vulnerable and uncared for.
Cats hate citrus. Get some lemon spray, essence of lemon, and put it on your door mat, spray it on your door. It smells great and the cats will stay away!