Wangan
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Joined: 12/4/2009 From: Northern Maine Status: offline
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I love wildlife,especially those beautiful foxes.I remember when I drove tanker truck and knew there was a fox family where my dump off place was.I saw a kit going into the ditch on the other end of a culvert.I walked over expecting it to know I was there,but when I got to the culvert and looked into it the kit was just sitting there looking around with absolutely no knowledge of me sneaking up on it.I just couldnt resist and hollered into the culvert,"Hey what are you doing!".Im sure my loud voice coming out of the culvert sounded as if I was right next to it.He sprang straight up into the air and took off like a bullet back to where he came from,the den I presume.I know this may sound mean but I call it "awareness heightening" and no harm was done, and I got a good chuckle out of it.(sure wish I had a camera!) I bet it was a bit more wary to its surroundings after that and I may have helped it survive longer by being more observant.Any time I can sneak up that close to a wild animal is a feather in my cap,although a "rookie" kit is a bit easy.Id like to have a penny for every time I have had a hunter walk by me within 10 or 20 feet and they never knew I was there.(I hate blaze orange ) I dont jump hunters.A wild animal and an armed man is quite a different story.
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