:FI:Baderslegs wrote:Got a better pic? What kind of furry lil beastie be that?
No can't seem to find a better/bigger picture Willie.
It was a fox making the blood curling noise that stained my underpants.
a fox? good lord. i'm sure you're right but here in Tenn. our foxes will never make such a sound---or at least i never heard tell of it. instead they do a sort of short, sharp bark---sort of like a dog, but then you can tell the difference instantly. i have heard our foxes do some howling...but its sort of like a coyoto... though shriller and not as loud.
those Scotish foxes must be of a bit different type than over here, which is not surprising, i guess.
my grand dad once told of panthers here in Tenn. and that there were some left even when he was a kid, but eventually were hunted to extinction because they could not leave the livestock, chickens and small calves and hogs and such, alone. i never really believed him on that, he told so many wild and outlandish tales... (his childhood would have been in the late 1800's and very early 1900's)
then years later, one day in high school, i was going through some old newspaper accounts of 1902 and right there on the front page was a picture of a panther...dead and slung between two poles. killed by a local farmer for attacking one of his young cows.
the article below the picture went on to explain that "most" of the panthers around the state had been killed by then, and that was most likely the last of the breed. so grand dad was right after all and was telling no tall tale on that one. as i've grown older, i've also found shreds of truth in most of his tall tales... seems he wasn't "always" just pulling us kids' legs on a whole lot of things. lol.
Beo
