There was a fox in my backyard earlier this week.
I’ve seen lots of sheep. The closest live about 20 miles North of here and I see them when I bring my daughter to camp. And then I’ve been to Ireland and Scotland.
And since we are talking about sheep - one of my favorite YouTube videos:
I saw a lot of foxes when I lived in Anne Arundle County, especially at night.
As far as sheep, I used to bottle feed the lambs on my uncle’s farm when I was a kid, more fun than milking the cow or feeding the baby chicks.
I haven’t seen any for quite a while though.
Here in southern Merrylande, I’ve see foxes both walking about and, alas, smooshed on the side of the road. But for all the farms down here, I don’t think I’ve ever seen any sheep in this county - maybe at the county fair? Plenty of horses (Amish transportation) and cows and goats, and even donkeys. There’s an alpaca farm nearby. But I don’t think raising sheep is a big deal around here.
I have seen sheep elsewhere - especially 2 years ago when I was in the UK.
I’ve seen foxes in the wild and sheep in zoos and farms so yes.
Southern New Hampshire here
Fox
Coyotes or Coy Dogs
The occasional Moose
No wild sheep here, certainly farms with them near.
An Alpaca place near by also
And with a quick bit of googling, I found this- it’s in the county just to the north-east of us.
From the OP:
Foxes are ubiquitous in London. We have a skulk* of them living in the small park opposite our house. When the cubs are old enough to leave their den they follow us (me and the dog) around on our night walks. Bit of a nuisance they are though, the mating cries are downright nightmare-inducing, and they’re always in our bins looking for food and leaving a giant mess. We used to have a delivery of eggs, milk, fruit and veg, but we had to stop that after losing it regularly to the foxes. I’ve still got CCTV footage of a fox stealing half a dozen eggs, one at a time. It worked its way into the box and gently picked out one egg and trotted off with it to return five minutes later for another until they were all gone. Presumably it was taking them back to its cubs.
Sheep, not so much. There are a few urban farms around central London, mainly to educate the inner city kids as to where their food comes from and what it looks like before it’s cut up, shrinked-wrapped and put on a supermarket shelf, or covered in eleven different herbs and spices. In a lot of the English countryside though, there’s plenty.
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I think we have red foxes (foxen? 
) In this part of the world, but I’ve never seen one in the wild. Having lived in the desert, I’ve seen plenty of coyotes – both free, and squashed. We have coyotes up here. My wife and I each saw one (well, presumably two different ones) run across the back yard a few years ago.
Yeah, I see foxes in my Maryland neighborhood once or twice a year, usually in the late evening in summer (often trotting down the sidewalk). Sheep I see in petting zoos, typically…
Sheep? Not so much.
Fox all the time.
Deer about once a week.
And-
Moose (A frequent visitor in our yard, they like the grass over the septic system) Here’s Fredrick
Coyote, once in a while.
Black Bear. It’s been a while, but they have torn the door off my shed twice. It Sucks. We keep our trash in the shed. I now crush moth balls on the steps to the shed and around the door. Seems to have stopped the intrusion.
No Mountain Lions, which is fine with me.
My neighbor swore that he saw a wolf, and I doubted him, but then I wondered… I did see what I thought was the biggest damn coyote I have ever seen about a year ago.
Seen both.
Here’s a pic of a fox I got several years ago on a game camera.
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We also have coyote/red wolf hybrids called Coywolves.
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Here in the Bay Area we have both native gray foxes and introduced red foxes. I’ve seen them both - once I saw a gray just as I was driving into my workplace, trotting up the driveway ahead of me. Later, at that same workplace (the local zoo) I helped trap and relocate a gray fox that had climbed into an animal exhibit and dined on exotic meats. We lost two wallabies. Many trees were trimmed, and netting added. Gray foxes are quite arboreal.
And, yes, plenty of sheep. What a weird thing to have never seen.
I grew up in New Zealand, where there are no foxes, but we are inundated with sheep.
I now live in Australia, where we have both, though I have only rarely seen either here. I think I’ve seen a fox twice in the last 16 years, and sheep are usually confined to places far away from my rural travelling, it’s more of a cattle and horse region around these parts.
I never got a close look at a fox in Maryland, my only unconfirmed glimpse was way out in the country at summer camp in the 60s. They are largely nocturnal, late evening and early morning is the best chance to see them, but I did spot one running across a lit parking lot in the depths of night in New York once. I’m hearing from people that fox are becoming urbanized animals now more likely to be seen in populated areas, but no confirmation of that, they aren’t that big and can stay hidden very easily.
If you do see fox in the daytime there’s a good chance they are rabid so contact animal control. Don’t expect them to do anything though, I saw a mangy fox in my backyard in broad daylight, called animal control, they said call the police, the police said call animal control. It was seen around the neighborhood a few more times over the next few days, then no more reports, hopefully dead instead of spreading mange.
It might depend on where in the UK she’s from, there’s a lot fewer sheep in the South of England (it’s all cows) and growing up there I remember being pleased to see them. Now I live in Yorkshire the woolly buggers are everywhere.
Reading a few more posts I should add that I grew up in the 60s and there could be more sheep down South now.
In Wyoming and Washington:
Sheep (bighorn and garden variety)
Foxes
Bear (black and grizzly)
Cougar
Deer
Raccoons
Elk
Buffalo (Bison?)
In Arizona:
Coyotes
Coral snake
Javalinas
Coatimundi
Bobcat
Gila monsters
Rattlesnakes, Scorpions & Tarantulas (the Southwest version of Lions and Tigers and Bears) :eek:
I’ve seen foxes a few times. I’ve seen domestic sheep any number of times. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a wild sheep except in a zoo. I don’t believe there are any wild sheep that are native to the eastern United States.
I’ve seen probably hundreds of thousands of sheep, and a grand total of 6 foxes - 3 bat-eared foxes, two Cape foxes and one red fox. Also, many jackals.
I live in an English country town, so see plenty of sheep.
However I’ve only ever seen one fox - and that was in Central London. :eek:
Foxes are common near me, usually red ones, although grays are also indigenous. One visited my “bird” feeder[sup]*[/sup] last night. Red foxes seem to have little fear of humans, even though the local farmers will shoot them on sight, believing them to be a threat to their chickens.
There is a small sheep ranch nearby. Also llamas, pigs, chickens, cattle, emus, bees, you name it. Not too surprising for a rural countryside.
