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The poor cat was chased up a tree by a fox for the 3rd time!!! That was in the early evening (maybe around 6:30pm?) last Friday. Then at about 9pm, we saw baby foxes playing on our lawn when we went to close the back door. They didn't seem to be bothered when we shone the flashlight on them. One of them came all the way to the patio. That was when we first knew that the fox family was back! Again they are living under the shed.

The neighbor now keeps both cats inside the house. They should be safe now.

The baby foxes are still very small, about 10" - 12" long not counting the tail. There are 7 of them. They came out to play in the evening, chasing and wrestling each other only several yards away from the house. A great fun to watch.

The foxes last year were red foxes. The mama fox had a magnificent big tail. The fox mama this year doesn't look very red. I at first thought they were gray foxes, but the pups all have dark legs, dark ears, and white tips on the tail. The online photos of gray fox pups didn't show such physical characteristics. Only red foxes have these. Does anybody know how to better identify them?