why doesn’t he just move out with them? he does make it sound suspicious

Actually, even though she’s clearly a villian, I could halfway understand the reaction of wanting all the foxes dead. She doesn’t know that Shadow didn’t mean to bite her son, all she saw was some ‘animal’ biting her son and making him bleed. That can set any mother off and she was pretty off kilter to begin with.

And I may be wrong about this but I do believe they automatically try to seek out and kill ‘possibly rabid’ animals the moment you report the injury, regardless of if it was an accident or not.

@ thisfox–Fox are not protected here in the US. In some locales, they are rather prolific. They may be hunted with a furbearers license in my state–usualy done in the Winter when the pelts are of best quality. (Coyotes, however, may be taken on a small game license.) Predator populations rise with increase in prey populations. A healthy fox in action is a joy to watch but I don’t get to view them very often.

I think protected status depends on the species and region.

I’m pretty sure the woman wants the animals in 100 pieces…