Fox Wood Wildlife Rescue

Open House and Basket Auction fundraiser Sunday June 6th, 2010 from Noon- 4 PM. Come and see our beautiful foxes, coyotes, rescue dogs and more! Music by Roger Hill and friends, great food by Fredi.
Donations of baskets or silent auction items gratefully accepted. This is the only event we have all year. Please come out and have fun and support our work!
Where: 11156 Old Glenwood Road, EAst Concord, NY 14055
Phone: 716-592-1861
e-mail: foxladye@yahoo.com

Check out this video of this years fox pups enjoying our adult female, Boo!

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13 pups so far! This is them snuggled up in their little fox house, and just woke up and going to go into their BIG pen to excercise and play all day!

Open House Sunday June 6th Noon- 4 PM!

Come see out beautiful coyotes, foxes, dogs and other animals. Stroll through our gardens and feed the Koi in our ponds. Visit our Open House Sunday June 6th  between noon and 4 PM and support our work to help injured and orphaned wildlife and abandoned dogs.  Chinese and Silent Auctions, donations welcome! Its a beautiful drive to East Concord, NY!! For more info e-mail foxladye@yahoo.com. For directions, use Google or Yahoo Maps to :  11156 Old Glenwood Road, East Concord, NY 14055

Cougar Hit By Car in Sardinia, NY

Here we go again... another cougar hoax, but this one is spreading like wildfire thanks to technology.  Local people in southern Erie County are getting cell phone texts with a photo of a deceased cougar on the back of a pickup truck (allegedly a Conservation Law Enforcement Officer's truck) . Depending on the sender, the text may or may not contain details designed to make the hoax more believable, such as the weight ( 196 lbs) or the DEC tag in its ear. Reportedly hit by a car at the corner of route 39 and Savage Road in the town of Sardinia- a place where cougars frequent (where is my "sarcasm" font when I need it?)

So where is the media on this? When the young couple hit a black bear on the 400 expressway in East Aurora, the media was all over that for days, and black bears are fairly common in the area. Yet a cougar in a place where they are not indigenous gets no coverage?  Hmmm... that might be a red flag there.  Reporters like to be able to have facts to base their stories on - there must be no facts, only fiction here. With all the snow on the ground, there must be extensive cougar tracks in the area, right? Surely it didn't fall out of the sky into the road.

OK, so then maybe the DEC confiscated it in their on-going effort to deny releasing cougars in the area (sarcasm font again) . They are accused of releasing cougars, they are accused of releasing coyotes too. The fact is, they haven't released either. State and Federal laws  prohibit the release of non-indigenous animals into an area without extensive research, public meetings, etc.  and then, there is the question - WHY??  What would be the end result? To control the coyotes (hahahaha!) no. Cougars won't control coyotes. Control the deer? I thought there weren't enough deer because the coyotes were eating them all (sarcasm font again) 

 
 Lets look at the photo that is circulating.  Notice the hunting dog boxes in the bed of the truck, not customary or standard in the DEC trucks. Notice the red spot behind the cougar's left elbow- looks like a gunshot wound to the vitals, perhaps done while shooting the cougar out of a tree after it was treed by the dogs- in a state where it is legal to do so (not legal in New York).  Look at the bloodied inside right front paw, possibly done by the dogs after the cougar fell dead out of the tree, or perhaps the lethal heart/lung shot sprayed blood on the chest and down the inside of the front leg.  How could being hit by a car broadside cause an injury on the inside of a leg?  If a large cat was hit by a car going the posted 35 mph along this road, the cat most likely would have survived, especially since it obviously wasn't hit in the head. But lets just say the driver was speeding and wacked him good- probably would have totaled the car, and the cat would have been pretty mangled to have been killed.  This cat just has a little red spot on its side behind the front leg and a bloodied inside leg.   Look at the snowmobiles in the background. This photo evidence looks like it was taken in a field out west. Check out other cougar hoaxes on http://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/44564.html   or http://www.snopes.com/photos/hunting/mountainlion.asp

There is always the outside chance that someone had a pet cougar that escaped. There is opportunity to buy all kinds of exotic animals at Mt Hope auctions in spring and fall. Possibly, but a cougar of this size, looks to be an adult male, would hardly make it to this size without being noticed at some point in someones home. However, noting the other clues given by the photo, i.e. the nature of the injuries this is likely not the case. 

Someone is having a great deal of fun by creating this hoax and they sure do have a lot of people believing it- good job, whoever you are- people really are gullible some times! Why not do one with Bigfoot next?

Snowy Day

Annual Newsletter Christmas 2009

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Gray Fox!

 Many people never get the chance to see the elusive Gray fox. This is mostly because they are more nocturnal and deep woods than the more commonly seen Red fox.  Grays tend to be more secretive, hanging out more in the areas where raccoons are than in the open fields.  Unlike Red foxes, Grays can climb trees.  In fact ,grays share a lot of characteristics in common with raccoons. They are very susceptible to Distemper, so much so that simply using the wrong Distemper vaccine can cause a gray fox to come down with the disease. Even with great care, Distemper is not a disease they are likely to survive. Like raccoons, a rabid Gray fox can be quite aggressive and rabid gray foxes are often misidentified as Red foxes. This is probably because of the rust coloration around their ears and neck. It is my belief that when the Health Department lists the rabid animals throughout our state that they should not be lumping Red and Gray foxes into one "fox" category- Reds and Grays are two completely different animals. Photo of "Baby Fox" courtesy of photographer Robert Watroba

Fox Wood Wildlife Rescue Open House August 30, 2009

You are invited to the First Ever Fox Wood Open House

 When: Sunday August 30^th, 2009

Time: From 10 am – 5 Pm

Where: 11156 Old Glenwood Road, East Concord, NY

Parking is limited to the street (sorry!)

Come and see our beautiful  property, coyotes, foxes, rescue dogs and more! Food and drink, Chinese Auction, vote for your favorite animal, and sponsorship opportunities.

We are grateful to accept donated Chinese auction baskets and items as well as donations of baked goods- or whatever you might be able to contribute to help make this fundraising event a success. 

For more information, contact Elise at 716-592-1861 or foxladye@yahoo.com

Check us out on the web: www. http://foxwoodrehab.typepad.com/my_weblog/

 

For the comfort of our animals, please leave your own pets home on that day

The Pups are Here!

So far, there are ten orphaned fox pups here.  All of these pups now have a family, including a wonderful old fox that mothers them and makes sure they grow up fearing humans. Our pups often grow to be larger than the other wild pups the same age.  We attribute that to excellent diet, room to play and grow and Heather, our old female that mothers them.  What a difference it all makes.