Foxes No Longer Keep Rabbits In Check
Personal memory by Nick Carpenter
2008 CE • Virginia Beach, VA, USA
When I was young, a family of foxes and their pups would come out and roam around our suburban neighborhood, once even coming into our yard. They kept the rabbit population in check. One year, I saw a beautiful grey-red fox that was hit by a car on the side of the road. We don't see them anymore, and now rabbits/other critters are all over the place and eat all the fauna.
Memory submitted at Maya Lin: A Study of Water, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, 2022
Image: Chesapeake Bay Program via Flickr, Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC 2.0)
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