You have met Francesca the Fearful, now let me introduce you to her male counterpart (I have assigned their sexes based on my observations and could easily be wrong) Ferdinand the Fearless.
As you will see
he is not your typical image of a fox with an elegant bushy tail – which is why he has earned the unfortunate nickname of Bog Brush or BB for short.
His whole attitude is completely different to that of our other foxy visitor.
When Ferdinand comes on the scene he seems to have a swagger which seems to say: “I’m in charge here and if I want to eat then I’ll eat and I don’t care who goes hungry.”
Confident as he appears he does not eat all the food put out and will often return two or three times a night to grab an extra bite.
When he does turn up he will go straight to the table, often putting his front paws on it, and tuck in, not really bothering to check what is on the menu, wolfing down as much as he can.
Surprisingly, when any of our nightly customers turn up at the same time they tend to ignore each other, Both foxes definitely ignore Horace, or any of his prickly friends, maybe they have had a taste of those prickles in the past and are not willing to repeat the experience. Horace still takes no chances and often tries to make himself appear invisible./
As you can see from the video clip, nothing much seems to bother our Ferdinand. I just wonder if the state of his tail is down to an encounter with a larger nocturnal wanderer when Ferdinand had stood his ground.
If you have any idea what might have damaged Ferdinand’s let me know.
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