Strange Occurrence

cremedemonthe

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We have had a strange occurrence at night over this last week. Late at night when we are in our beds we hear a vixen scream outside, as they always do, nothing new there or strange you might think,it always sets our dogs off in a mad rush to launch themselves through the dog flap into the garden for a 5 minute huffing and puffing session.
The strange thing is, Mum told me the other night she went to the window to shoo it off as it was making enough noise to wake the dead as well as our dogs and the vixen had a little dog following it around and acting exactly like the fox, she said it looked like a Springer Spaniel!
I thought she'd been at the bottle and took it with a pinch of salt, then last night the vixen started screaming again & mum came to tell me the dog was outside with it exactly like the night before. I have seen it too and the Springer is actually a jack russell ( her eyesight was never any good!)
It mooches around behind and sometimes infront of the vixen, only a few feet apart, they are quite at ease with each other and are acting like a pair.
After they had wandered off round the corner of the next road a man in shorts (1.30 am by now!) walked round after them, whether has was the owner of the Russell we don't know but now we have a fox being followed by a jack russell being followed by a human!
We can't help wondering what species will be next and join the queue!
If we look out tonight and see something else I will report back.
Whatever next, a deer or badger following the human!!
Oz
 
My moneys on a giraffe...or a baby hippo. What a lovely thing to see tho..I know there was a farmer in the south who rescued a litter of fox cubs and one was pictured 'at home' with a jack russell who took her under her paw..so its actually more common..perhaps man was chap from foxes by night program or what ever it was called..stalking these two-maybe the Jack russell befriended the vixen when it got lost..animals do help each other out in sometimes the most unusual circumstances...would love to see pics!:-)
 
Right, taking bets on it now,we have 3 suggestions, anymore although the chances of seeing either a possum, giraffe or a baby hippo round here are quite remote so my money ought to safe!

Well if my memory serves me right..don't count your octopuppies just yet as someone posted a rather large lobster raiding their bin in Caterham(on sea!) a little while back...might have been you!:D
 
lol, yes that was me but it wasn't my bin I might add!
:)

hehe yes , I have it now! the lobster had brought the bin round to your garden to have dinner with the JRT & its foxie friend! They were probably hiding in the bin when they heard you coming;-)
 
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