Looking busy
Foxy the fox has almost certainly met her end. After daily visits for food, nothing for a few weeks. No sign of her, and no noises at night (that weird yowling, screeching noise they make when they’re scrapping, shagging, or whatever else they do that requires making all that racket.). It’s not just her, all of the foxes in the street have gone quiet – maybe someone came one night and did the lot in. She might however just be busy. Cats have gone missing for longer. My mate Ange’s housemate Jenny’s cat Elvis went missing for weeks on end, showed up in a nearby town I think. Elvis is a girl, that was the most confusing thing about it.
Work is relaxed to the point of being ridiculous. It’s feast or famine, apeshit or nothing, I-want-everything-yesterday or meh… whenever. Rarely in between. Busy is good. Busy makes five o’clock come quickly. Quiet means slumping over your desk at three, tidying your desk, messing it up again, discussing the latest hysterical email to go round the office, dotting i’s and crossing t’s, catching up with three-week-old emails about meetings that happened two weeks ago, and deliberating about snacks. Bugger me, it’s hard work.
Sorry to hear Foxy’s gone, but there’ll probably be another one along soon. Was thinking about the TV programme we watched on urban foxes, and the people who complain about them. There are far more urban foxes than rural foxes because humans are such wasteful, messy creatures who leave food lying about all over the place. You can’t blame the foxes. I haven’t see or heard a live fox around here for ages - they must all have moved into town.
Foxy could be sitting on a litter of pups. It’s nice, though, that you had the time with her that you did.
There was a program(me) on nthe radio about how the starling, crow and seagull population in Seattle has exploded with the human population. The crows are all banded to track the movement of the West Nile virus. (when the crows die, they get picked up and tested).
The last couple of years I have been seeing a turkey vulture downtown.
It looks like the scavangers are taking over.