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[Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>]

Foxes eat rabbits, and help protect my plants, right?  So foxes aren't 
completely off-topic.  But does anyone know how likely they are to eat (or 
kill) house cats?  We seem to have a rather bold fox in the neighborhood.  I 
just saw him trot by, and I let in a rather nervous-looking cat.  The cat is 
critical for controlling birds and chipmunks around my currants, (and she 
eats young rabbits) but she's also a pet, and I'm wondering how risky it is 
out there.

On the plus side, I suppose if we have a fox this year, we probably don't 
have coyotes this year. . . 

Weird looking fox, for what it's worth.  I think it's a red fox (the species, 
that is), but his back is mostly brown.  Sort of a mottled fox.  I have seen 
a gray fox in the area, but I think those are larger than this one.

Ginda
Eastern MA, zone 6