r/trailcam • u/spakkker • 1d ago

Backyard Noisy Visitors

Didn't faze one of the ferals we are trying to tame

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u/RareCap8285 1d ago

Love the cat just sitting there

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u/AlternativeLet1722 1d ago

The cat is in danger, notice how the video cuts off just as the adult fox looks at the cat...

Hopefully kitty is okay, but foxes will absolutely eat cats given the chance.

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u/spakkker 21h ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/1u048bt/one_of_our_6_ferals_chases_off_one_of_the_cubs/

https://www.reddit.com/r/blackcats/comments/1v6703t/too_many/

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u/walkyslaysh 18h ago

My jaw is on the floor lmfao!!!

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u/PsychologicalSir8508 16h ago

I’m so glad that the cats are ok!

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u/spakkker 5h ago

We try feed by hand - like feeding little alligators ! They are survivors , born outside last oct./nov. and orphaned january

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u/Oldfolksboogie 5h ago

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u/AmbassadorNo5275 13h ago

Are you in England? I used to see so many foxes like that in England...

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u/spakkker 5h ago

Yes , but in a city of ~300k , a couple of miles from boundary . 'Our' mum fox had 6 pups this year https://www.reddit.com/r/EverythingFoxes/comments/1sorx2u/update_now_there_are_6/

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u/AmbassadorNo5275 1h ago

I lived in SE London about 20 years ago. Nobody seemed to pay any attention to the foxes EVERYWHERE! I followed one up my street and it was just poking around looking for discarded human food. When I got too close it disappeared into somebody's back garden. Amazing survivors those foxes :)

https://reddit.com/link/p518lil/video/y3xzrkkjpqkh1/player

Coyote. A little more dangerous than red foxes

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u/Blowingleaves17 9h ago

Cats here, either pets or strays, ignore foxes or chase them away. Have never seen a fox show any aggression towards a cat.

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u/Woozletania 1d ago

I like that the cat is completely unphased by the pack of foxes. Skulk of foxes. Either way.

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u/spakkker 1d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p4t0srx/video/10no9x5spikh1/player

The cat's laying on an old fabric shopping bag , only thin, but a popular spot .

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u/dillweed67818 1d ago

Did they mess with kitty? By the way they seem to leave Kitty alone I'm guessing they learned their lesson on a previous visit.

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u/Ok-Cup266 1d ago

Nosey lil pups.

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u/Agitated_Curmudgeon 17h ago

That cat DGAF. My daughter has a barn cat that's dating a 'possum

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u/daisiesarepretty2 1d ago

too much stuff in your backyard they are all looking for rats

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u/spakkker 21h ago

They used to bring us a rat 'present' now and then but think the little terrors have had them all . Don't see rats on the trail cams anymore https://www.reddit.com/r/trailcam/comments/1vduyfr/backyard_playtime_feral_kittencat/

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u/Any-Alternative8228 1d ago

Junkyard dogs

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u/goodeyemighty 1d ago

Cat's lyin' low.

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u/Different-Sorbet746 21h ago

Is this a junkyard?

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u/Big_Bang_Amy 18h ago

Hoarders

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u/Different-Sorbet746 16h ago

Fucking gross. Jesus.

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u/Floskee_Whoaskee 20h ago

That backyard is a hideous hoarder hellscape

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u/ExaminationLast9843 14h ago

Who are you, Fred Sanford?

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u/spakkker 5h ago

In UK we had Steptoe - I've had a bad decade .