>>Well raccoons LOVE to eat turtles of any kind. It's part of their natural diet. Not unusual. Turtles (other than snappers) really don't have any way to fight back and coons are smart critters. Turtles are not a part of a foxes natural diet, a fox would have to be pretty desperate/starved I think to want to eat a turtle.


When we first moved here we still had a "paper boy" who was actually a man who did the collection for the paper at the door. It's not done that way now, we mail the check with the bill... but he told me once there are coons here that he's seen them as he drove around in the middle of the night. I still have a problem believing that, I've never seen any evidence at all that they do live around here.
The fox though, I didn't think turtles and tortoises were on their menu but if it's desperate enough to hunt a house cat in broad daylight in front of a lot of humans, that worries me.
Of course on the other hand this could just be a fluke, there are feral cats in the neighborhood, maybe the fox ventured into human territory by accident because it was on the chase?
Since this happened, nothing else has with a fox.

The major storms with heavy rains we had yesterday did bring out the spadefoot toads though!
They were out calling all night long last night- I love hearing that!
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