{"id":9610,"date":"2014-07-25T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T13:14:42","slug":"summer-of-the-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/summer-of-the-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of the fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">S<\/span>ummer 2014 is shaping up to be the summer of the fox around here. It started with Tristan adopting the fox as his favourite animal recently. One of his hyphenated surnames sort of looks like the French word for fox, which led to the translation of our family name as &#8220;Thunder Fox&#8221;, which is a pretty good gamer name. There were foxes in PEI that den in the sand dunes, although despite his best efforts we didn&#8217;t see one.<\/p>\n<p>Foxes have been in the media this week, too. There was the real fox found sleeping in an OC Transpo bus: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>This fox was found sleeping on the seat of an OC Transpo bus in Ottawa this morning. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/mYoJagF1Kk\">pic.twitter.com\/mYoJagF1Kk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stu Mills (@StuMillsCBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StuMillsCBC\/statuses\/491950510157492224\">July 23, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Funny, I follow Stu Mills on Twitter and listen to CBC Ottawa every morning, but I heard this story when we were out of town in southern Ontario. That&#8217;s one little #BusFox who has legs &#8211; Stu&#8217;s original tweet has been re-tweeted more than 2,000 times!<\/p>\n<p>And I totally got sucked in by this <a href=\"http:\/\/thelapine.ca\/one-little-fox-fights-back-keeps-sneaking-into-tar-sands-plant-and-pooping-in-lunch-room\/\">story about a little environmentalist fox<\/a> who kept breaking into a cafeteria for employees of the tar sands operation in Alberta and pooping on the kitchen fixtures for at least long enough to share it on Facebook &#8211; until I realized it was from a satire site similar to the Onion. Oh well. it was still a good story.<\/p>\n<p>The best foxes by far, in my humble opinion, are the two baby foxes that have been adopted by <a href=\"http:\/\/raysreptiles.com\/\">Little Ray&#8217;s Reptile Zoo<\/a>. When we got back from PEI and heard that Little Ray&#8217;s had two baby foxes, we hustled out there with the boys. I swear, every time we go to Little Ray&#8217;s I wonder why we don&#8217;t go more often. Once a year is just not enough! I never leave without learning something, and the boys always enjoy the critters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/14554662460\" title=\"Little Ray&#x27;s Reptile Zoo by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5565\/14554662460_131ea6f7ed_c.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"546\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Little Ray&#x27;s Reptile Zoo\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ha, can you see the expression on Beloved&#8217;s face in the bottom picture? He does not appreciate the snakes so much.<\/p>\n<p>We enjoyed the reptile show (heh, some of us liked the snake parts more than others), but we LOVED this special guest at the feeding show:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/14672311805\" title=\"what did the fox say by Danielle Donders, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2906\/14672311805_76efae420d_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"what did the fox say\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An 11 week old baby red fox. Isn&#8217;t he gorgeous? And the kids got to pet him, too. Such a lovely creature. If you&#8217;re looking for something to do with the kids this summer, Little Ray&#8217;s is one of the best places in town for a family adventure, whether you&#8217;re a fox fan or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer 2014 is shaping up to be the summer of the fox around here. It started with Tristan adopting the fox as his favourite animal recently. One of his hyphenated surnames sort of looks like the French word for fox, which led to the translation of our family name as &#8220;Thunder Fox&#8221;, which is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/summer-of-the-fox\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Summer of the fox&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-family-fun"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9610"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9614,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9610\/revisions\/9614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}