# 2 foxes asleep in our backyard today

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 9, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-foxes-asleep-in-our-backyard-today/709375 "2015-01-09T04:40:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-foxes-asleep-in-our-backyard-today/709375/1 "2015-01-09T04:40:45Z")

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[http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/jimbuff314/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-01/139D2D9E-8139-4CCC-B719-C2AD4367F114\_zpstjveqjx1.jpg.html?o=2](http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/jimbuff314/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2015-01/139D2D9E-8139-4CCC-B719-C2AD4367F114_zpstjveqjx1.jpg.html?o=2)

Center right of photo, under photinias. Save and expand to see orange-red furballs better. Tried to get them to pose but they weren’t having it.

A couple of months ago we saw one of them in our yard and went out and gave it a bit of aerobic exercise (I don’t know - we were a little giddy perhaps.) We live about a block and a half from the Arkansas River, in the direction the camera is pointing. Still, we _are_ in the middle of a town of 400,000. Just sayin’.

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-foxes-asleep-in-our-backyard-today/709375/2 "2015-01-09T04:42:55Z")

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I love red foxes 🙂

May I ask what’s up with the leaves piled up around the tree trunk?

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**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/2-foxes-asleep-in-our-backyard-today/709375/3 "2015-01-09T05:56:33Z")

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Oh, I do that every year. I don’t like to waste stuff so I like to pretend it’s a mulch pile.