h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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I don’t know where all the squirrels have gone but I have tonight resolved a mystery.
We have acalled Splodge, she quite lucky, she has her own chalet type cat house attached to the front of our house.
I built it last year for her, after my girlfriend did not won’t Splodge to spend another winter outdoors.
Splodge is half feral and does not like to come into the house, she partial to the odd under the chin when we are enjoying a late evening drink on the patio.
My girlfriend asked that splodges house should be off the floor, big enough to house her bedding (which we change weekly) and have a roof extension so that she(the) can eat her food in the dry should it be raining.
No sooner said than done, built, stained and very much used.
Problem was that Splodges food bowls were going missing, as she could not eat all her food in one go, she would return to it later to finish it off, so we left the bowl out over night.
4 missing bowls later, the girlfriendwas getting concerned thinking that either someone was having a joke or something more sinister might happen. So she had asked if a fence to the front of the house could be erected and CCTV installed if the bowls continued to go missing.
Plans were in the making, when at 1.50am this morning the culprit showed his hand.
I was up in the office as usual (as I’m unable to sleep much due to my back), when I heard the noise of the bowl being dropped on the road to the front of the house.
Glaring back up at the office window was a large male dog fox, he proceeded to pick up the half full bowl and waltz off with it down the road.
Mystery solved, we now know who’s taken them but where he has taken them to is anyone’s guess

Is a dog fox part dog and part fox?

Nope, just means its a daddy fox and not a mummy fox

Cat's eye:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonivanstraaten/344161323/

Fox's eye:

http://www.google.com/imgres?q=fox%27s+eye&hl=en&as_st=y&biw=1277&bih=644&tbm=isch&tbnid=vhET68_swiihPM:&imgrefurl=http://radientthings.wordpress.com/tag/poems/&docid=ImyOHssce0wdIM&imgurl=http://radientthings.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/0_142.jpg&w=233&h=350&ei=yd7eT4C4FKb22AXEj52oCA&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=587&vpy=88&dur=17963&hovh=275&hovw=183&tx=109&ty=149&sig=116648528818276711554&page=1&tbnh=145&tbnw=97&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:80

Dog's eye:

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Well its like spring watch around here, got up as usual ,being very domesticated , I usually empty the dishwasher, put some clothes washing into the machine, see to the dry stuff and generally tidy around before going up to the office until the early hours of the morning.
Amongst all this I let the out for its midnight pee.
Whilst doing this I came across quite a large hedgehog on the drive by the garage. I haven’t seen a hedgehog in ages and we were only on about how long it seemed since we saw our last one.
Well , as against him roaming the expanse of paving for food , I very carefully put it in the back garden where it can feast on so many slugs that it could burst , not that I want it to do of cause.
wasn’t happy that I had removed his new play thing, but he can play with his squeaking tomorrow when hopefully the hedgehog will be wrapped up somewhere nice and safe

Do hedgehogs really eat slugs?

Slugs can be quite nice, but you've got to prepare them correctly... a little olive oil, fresh slugs, and some garlic... Not as nice as eating locus though...

...compare their eyes... ...despite their doglike appearance and native American sobriquette,'little dog', like the hyena, foxes actually have more in common with cats than with dogs, a sobriquette like, 'little hyena', would actually be closer to the truth... ...mind you, foxes can be very personable if one treats them right, in their very highly independent way...

I grew up in an area where there are native species of foxes.

Ditto.

Getting eye ball to eyeball with one can be quite a trick.

They usually go through a preliminary phase of exchanging presents... like the ones the cat might provide.

Dont know what evolutionary route our foxes have taken but eating out of bowls,they will be wanting a menu next .

I can just imagine what would be on a fox's menu. Birds' eggs? Small rodents? Some farmer's chickens?

The foxes menu, just about anything you and I can eat eat.

They are very omnivorous and occasionally become a problem raiding vineyards for grapes.

They prefer meat, and if the supply is good, mammalian meat over avian, avian over reptilian.

Omnivorous hey, nothing like a varied diet and the odd passingall eaten medium rare, followed by a visit down to the local vineyard , so as to swill it all down with a mature Pinot.

Oh, we increased the growing family of stone ornaments yesterday, joining the Owl, fat, we now have a hedgehog.
The girlfriend took a shine to it whilst at the garden centre, pleasant little chap, I don’t know what would make a hedgehog but this one seems quite amused by something

Deer are said to be fond of anything that farmers can grow.

Never eaten Deer, does it taste like ‘en

Venison, more like mutton, but gamier, stronger flavored.