12/09/2025
Don’t mind the AI - just trying to be lighthearted about a stressful situation woth the arctic foxes.
This last week snow fell off the roof of the house and onto the fox enclosure. It bent the frame just enough that the foxes had an opportunistic escape. Lucky for us the snow showed us where they have been running… but they are up in the hills. We set live traps but they are little geniuses and are getting the food out without setting off the traps.
If you see White foxes running around Louisiana they think they are cats and like to be pet, you can pick them up by the scruff. Until the fugitives are captured I suppose we have free range arctic foxes.
I have learned a couple of lessons…
1) don’t put an enclosure next to a roof with only a slight slant as it will fall off when things start to melt and it will damage your enclosure.
2)foxes can get through tiny spaces.
3) blizzard behaved better before there was an older woman fox around and never left the perimeter of the house until she was a bad influence. Yes i am blaming the woman!
4) Fox are ridiculously intelligent and they dont care about my traps!
5) as much as you try and domesticate a fox they are wild animals and I cannot force this issue.
6) I have to be grateful for the time I got to be up close and personal but may need to accept that absent keeping them locked inside the house that they may succumb to their natural instincts to roam and hunt and I have to be ok with that.
Don’t worry… I will continue to try and catch them and they are still coming around to take the food from the traps and to walk in front of the cameras.
If you do happen to see them… let me know. Hoping they don’t wander off the farm between now and when I get my hands on them.
And for the animal people, we reached out to animal control, local PD and the conservation department just in case. The situation is as managed as can be.
