Rabid foxes

Ah, crap! Now we have to worry about rabid foxes in the neighborhood. One of these attacks happened not a half mile from our house. I've never seen a fox out around here, but I'm sure we have them. What else would be holding down the raccoon and possum populations?

A gray fox that ran afoul of a shipyard worker's steel-toed boot after it tried to attack him in Gloucester Point Thursday was the latest in a string of fox attacks in Gloucester this week.

Carl Shipley, the county's chief animal control officer, confirmed Thursday's incident. Health officials are awaiting rabies test results on that animal. Two fox attacks also occurred this week in the Robins Neck section of the county, Shipley said. One of those foxes was confirmed rabid Friday, and the other could not be tested because its body was not recovered.

I guess we'll have to keep the dogs inside even more, not that they mind too much given the current heat and humidity. Well, at least they've been inoculated. Not like when Winnie got a cat bite a few years ago.