Jennifer and others.
Gray Foxes are all over Lubbock and we frequently see them in our Kings Park
area. They are mostly nocturnal.
I have to tell a fox story. Some have heard it in person.
Saturday mornings now a days, I like to sleep in til 7am. On Saturday December
16, 2017 our phone rang before 6am
and our Indian neighbor to the north excitedly asked us to look at their house
because there was a loud noise that she
described as "someone dancing on their roof"! I grabbed my halogen lantern and
went out in my house shoes and pajamas
and began to shine it on the roof, but quickly discovered that the loud noise
was coming from the east side of their house in
front of the yard fence. It was a fox who had caught its right rear leg between
pickets down about a foot. I "ran" to my garage
to get my heavy "welding" gloves and hurried back to the fox. As we shined the
light on its face, it quit struggling and it was
the most beautiful look in its eyes as if it knew I was there to help it. When
I put my hands around its body, it struggled no
more and I carefully lifted the body up and released the leg which did not
appear to be broken. When I let go, it disappeared in
such a flash that we could not even see it limp.
I could not go back to bed after that excitement!
Dr. George W. Jury
3807 75th Place
Lubbock, TX 79423