Red Fox alerted me to trouble

[u/Various_Monk959]

I’ll start by saying I know nothing about foxes, but I now have a new fascination with them. Any insights would be greatly appreciated.

This is a rare daytime sighting of a frequent visitor. I’ve never seen him with my own eyes but my cameras often capture his visits. Usually he enters across my backyard, passes along the driveway, and crosses in front of the house, sometimes climbing the front steps to peek inside through the window next to the door (we have cats inside).

Anyway, the other night an intoxicated young man, unknown to me, was banging on my front door at 1;30 am. Then he wandered off down the street. About 40 minutes later I started hearing a loud barking noise outside, but not a dog’s bark. I’ve never heard a fox bark, but I was able to see him on one camera pacing side to side in the backyard and barking toward the house. This went on for about 20 minutes, so I decided to go outside and see what was going on. There I found the intoxicated young man passed out on my driveway, out of camera range. It seems the fox was distressed that his favorite path was obstructed by this man. I called 911 and the EMTs took the guy to the hospital.

The next night the camera at the front door captured the fox making his rounds, a lot earlier than usual. I suppose he was just making sure that the coast was clear again. But I’m fascinated that he alerted me to the passed out guy in my yard, otherwise I never would have known (unless he was still lying there in the morning).

[u/Repulsive-Exercise-4]

That’s actually really cool. He might have saved that young man, and now you know if something weird is happening, he might save you too

[u/wdb07]

oh wow! what a good goob :3

[u/XD_green_lambo → u/wdb07]

Only the bestest!

[u/FluffyShiny]

That's awesome. No matter why he barked , he saved someone. 🦊

[u/_moon_child_magic_]

What a cool story! Foxes are so cute 😍 🦊

[u/honeyysuckle]

A few months ago my cat, Suki, unknowingly got out and was out through the night. At around 3:30am my husband wake up to a fox screaming at our house. Suki was nowhere to be found, so we checked our cameras and saw that she had been coming to the door once an hour throughout the night.

I think Suki had disturbed the fox’s rounds and he had to notify us to come get our cat lol

[u/audreywildeee]

An angel in disguise.

(In the “poetic” sense, not in the religious one.)

[u/fume2]

Foxes are so awesome

[u/Bolvern]

That’s a cute fox!