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"Human Poisons Affect Wildlife"
Male Fox Searches for Female after Poisoning at Mt Auburn photographed January 22, 2012 see also Red fox male says good bye to his female partner at Mt Auburn Cemetery the 'red fox'(reynard) looks for mate @ 'mount auburn' .g,mclean "call of the wild" i am sad 'but'had to send this out. after testing at tufts (grafton) the two year old red fox vixen was definitely poisoned with an anticoagulant such as 'deacon'. i have just spent 2 hours reading upon the different poisons . how pleasant on a Sunday morning. shades of 'lucrezia borgia' . the beautifull male fox (reynard) has been searching the cemetery looking for his mate all week . they got together in the late fall and prepared for the winter and their young (kits) in the spring. i am sorry for the folks at 'mount auburn" who in the past have tried to solve this problem. i have been getting some great winter bird photos and will start sending them out . thank you for all the e-mails i have been getting and your concern for the fox family, there are a lot of nice people out there, george mclean |