garden fox today 🦊 captured in the early hours of morning

First sighting! The threadbare tummy has me assuming this is the mama fox. (the fencing in the garden in the back is where the construction is going on.)

I think Mama fox might be an asian fox spirit of some sort? would explain the glowing ^_^ eyes….

Hello potentially supernatural friend here is an offering of a dried sausage dog chew

p sure this one is one of the babbies. it’s a bit smaller and its fur looks less coarse (also, a little more wary?)

if they are a babby, they quickly worked out that I just want to give them foods, bc they take snacks from my hand just like mama fox does

the dried chicken strips seem to be an especially big hit with the supposed youngling!

Some construction workers in a garden next to mine mentioned there was a friendly fox who came in and chilled with them early in the morning while on the lookout for snacks, so I immediately decided I wanted to befriend said fox.

Turns out that not only is she indeed super friendly and perfectly aware that humans have snacks, but she has cubs in another garden next to mine, and one of them is brave enough to have learned about humans and their snacks as well!

(I’ve dubbed the mom fox tracer, bc she’s a friend wearing orange, and the brave cub winston, bc I initially got him to come over by putting globs of peanut butter down. I know there’s at least three cubs (and as many as six, according to a neighbor), so hopefully I can make even more garden pals before they get booted out to find territory of their own in autumn!

handsomedogs:

My husband and I are pup sitting these cuties while their foster parents are on vacation. I just had to share their adorable faces!

I do think it’s kind of a shame that trying to make friends with some of the foxes is not really an option with Feist the Guard Kitty on the case.

That’s how worried a lot of them are by humans. Stroll down the hall right past us, given half a chance 😅

Feist just chased another fox out of here. This one came in the back door, and headed straight down the hall to the front room…where I saw her asleep in the window earlier. Not for long 😾

I was telling Foxy to leave, and pretty much got ignored. Then Feist charged, and Foxy couldn’t get back down the hall fast enough.

Almost wish I had managed to get video, but the whole episode took maybe a minute. Now Feist is sitting outside, guarding the patio and telling me about it.

Something tells me that might be one fox who won’t be so tempted the next time to go exploring through open doors 🙄 Maybe also wishing they’d stopped to snack on the dry cat food before checking out the rest of the place.

Source: lynati

Is that unusual? That’s how most of the branches here look like (Washington)

botanyshitposts:

it is for me!! i’m in iowa, so all our lichens are made to withstand the winters and stuff, which means you usually get lower diversity, smaller size, and more crustose (the weird patches of brown/green/blue discoloration you might see on branches or concrete, but if you look closer you’ll see that it’s an organism!!) or foliose (kind of fluffy, but not having a huge wild ass time; usually on trees) lichens. we have NO fruticose lichens here (those are the full on partying lichens that are like, dangling and stuff). usually the pallets are more brown/grey/blue/green, with one or two orange ones, and you’ll notice that the lichens leave space between each other where i come from; there’s just less of them unless you get into a forested area where they’re less disturbed.

here’s a visual guide to the main three lichen types, since its kinda hard to describe:

so we have a lot of the first two, but almost NONE of the last one.

lichens are crazy because once you start learning about them, you will see them EVERYWHERE. its impossible to avoid them, the crustose species especially.

hormel:

kagekubi:

not for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The bird’s name is Dog Water

Source: puppersofnewyork

homestuckorbust:

professorsparklepants:

imtooticky:

My coworkers complain when we can’t assign homework over Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. As if somehow this interferes with their ability to teach their classes.

My coworkers complain that our Muslim students get to leave class to pray Salat at noon. Like, we have maybe one Muslim student every two or three years – thus far, all extraordinarily respectful and lovely kids! – and they slip quietly out of class to pray.

My coworkers find all this infuriating. “Imagine,” they cry, “If a Christian kid asked to do that.”

I calmly explain, every single time, that a Christian kid would never HAVE to do that, because every single Christian holy day is a day off school. Good Friday. Easter Sunday. Christmas day. Our entire country interrupts its financial and educational systems – schedules its WEEKS – around the Christian prayer customs and seasons.

God forbid we temporarily unclip the rope barrier and leave an opening for someone whose religious traditions vary from our own.

Heck, the only holy day we DON’T get off is Ash Wednesday, and that only involves a church service if you’re Catholic.

DING DING DING

Source: lostjewishworld

thatonemushroom:

thatonemushroom:

What if dividing humans into two or more (usually two) categories that are inherent enemies is a bad idea?

I’m just saying it sounds like it could cause a lot of needless conflict.