We have
a breeding pair of little foxes who live in the area, I think under an evergreen tree two doors down the street. I see them every couple of days, they’re opportunists but they also seem to like our backyard (Sort of a jungle, at present). Not as big as a big housecat, and with hella long legs, they move fast and these have not fully shed their winter coats (Good thing for them!!)
We have heard them in the night. Their bark sounds like a woman finding a big spider in her underwear drawer.
I’d rather they not come to any harm. We had one many years back when Cooney was among the living, and he and Cooney would go to war over property rights- that or he wanted to mate with cooney, who was himself a tom.
If I had chickens or rabbits, I would shoot a fox or a coyote in a minute, but so long as I don’t have any livestock to protect, I think of them as just other predators in the chain. And I leave them alone. Think of it as professional courtesy.

They are beautiful creatures. Wish I had one in the area. would help with the rabbit population.
We had a pair den in our hedgerow in PA. They would bark at our old lab and try to lead him away from their den site. Sid was so deaf he couldn’t hear them. They seemed more cat like than canines.
We used to have a vixen in a bank by the stream at deer camp who’d have a litter every spring. Never saw the male. Beautiful creatures.
FYI, in English the fox den is called a sly. For some reason it’s easy to remember.
cool. Thanks!
We have a red fox on out property. I watched him chasing squirrels one day. Ten of them on the lawn and he coulnd’t catch even one. I felt sorry for him.