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A Quiet Life In Suburbia Turned Upside Down In Less Than 12 Hours…

It was dark… very, very dark… Danny and Cooper left for a walk… as they strolled down the driveway, they saw two spooky looking eyes staring at them.  Within seconds, the eyes were overshadowed by the screaming they heard coming from the creature in front of them.  Petrified, the two froze for a moment, then turned and sprinted back up the driveway.  6 legs, moving as fast as they could!  My tough looking husband and really tough looking bulldog, finally made it into our home.  Breathing heavily and emotionally scarred the two of them could barely use their vocal chords.  I asked what was wrong.  Danny replied, “A fox!  You Didn’t Hear that???”  “No,” I said.  He continued to tell me how scary it was, and how it basically attacked them with the awful scream.  I could tell he felt violated.

This morning… Danny had taken Talia to breakfast with dad morning at her school, leaving Julia and I home with the dogs.  As I was getting ready for work, both dogs began  barking in an aggressive manner.  I looked out the window to see what all the fuss was about.  There it was… right in front of me, showing no fear… a fox!  It was staring right at me and not moving an inch.  Our eyes locked, thus beginning the stare down.  Thanks to the “Stare Master” My Little Pony episode I watched with the girls, Moments into the stare down, both dogs were still barking but running from the front window to the back door slider.  The dogs were such a big distraction that I had no choice but to put up my white flag.  The fox won this time… I turned to see what the dogs were barking at in our backyard and noticed yet another fox.  My house was surrounded and I was being kept hostage.  Fortunately, they dispersed soon after, Danny came home and I was able to leave for work.  As I drove down my street, in front of my very own eyes was another fox!  The fox was not only in the middle of the street, it was carrying an animal in its mouth.  Disgusted, I quickly drove off.  Thinking it was time to call our Animal Control officer regarding the “fox issue” we were having, I pulled up in front of our local library.

While at the stop sign in front of the library, a large sign caught my eye… The large black lettering was hard to ignore… JUNE 7^th, 7PM COYOTE AWARENESS MEETING AT THE LIBRARY!  Great, never mind the fox, now I have to deal with Coyotes.  Maybe they could have a FOX AWARENESS MEETING as well.  Unfortunately, I saw the sign a bit too late as June 7^th has passed.  Driving along, I neared our towns Police Station and Dunkin Donuts.  In front of the Dunkin Donuts (directly across from the Police Station and on a main road), I saw a large table and two men standing behind it.  They were on the sidewalk and had signs and posters hanging from the table.  Being a bit nosy, I slowed down… Yes, I was one of “those” people today.  You know, the ones that slow down because they are nosy stopping traffic everywhere for no good reason.  Anyhow, what I saw was overwhelming.  The posters were of our very own President Obama.  His face had been altered on them though.  They had moustaches on them, similar to the German leader I don’t like mentioning the name of.  The men were verbal about world peace and stopping the war… I have no more words.
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