Although there is a popular song that purports to know the answer to the question posed in the title of this blog, from personal experience the other night I know what the fox really says.
I saw the fox walk through my yard the other day--and it looked a lot like the one in the image. Not pretty and fluffy, but ragged and worn. That concerned my, but not alarmingly so until the other night when it returned to my neighborhood and made a terrible racket--at 3AM.
It woke Makayla--who had to bark to let everyone in the house know that something was afoot in the yard.
Sadly, it was just an insult added to the injury.
The fox had already awakened me.
I laid there--contemplating my next action. Should I
get up and yell at the fox?
try to sleep, despite the noise?
ignore it and eventually it will go away?
So many questions in my mind at 3 AM.
What does the fox say?
"I'm gonna bark in your yard and wake your dog who is gonna bark at me and wake you up just so you know I'm here!"
At least that's what the fox in my yard says at 3 AM.
-- Bob Doan, Elkridge, MD