Today I continue my quest in creating and posting one block a day of the fabulous That Town And Country Quilt by the lovely Susan-Claire Mayfield. This is day three hundred and thirty-seven of that project.

This quilt block is a corner block, meaning that it's oriented to one corner as the "bottom" of the block. This one is in the bottom right corner. There is a patch of dark green grass (fabric) in the bottom right, and standing on it is a pretty good sized fox. The fox is made up of a darker orange fabric and white fabric for its underbelly and tip of the tail. There is an almost black fabric for the foxglove paws. Details on the face, such as the ears and the eye have been drawn in with pen. This fox is in mid-step as it prowls for its prey. — Click To Enlarge

Most of us are familiar with how pretty foxes are.

We had a couple that had gorgeous coats this year. I attribute it to all the eggs it ate.

Asa would put cracked eggs out in a bucket, and the fox would come and pick one up and take it home again and again. We use electric fences to protect our hens and rarely have a problem.

Foxes behave more like cats than dogs. They are primarily nocturnal, and with their slanted pupils, they can see very well in dim light. They use their whiskers to navigate, and like cats, they stalk and pounce on their prey.

A male fox is called a dog, and a female is a vixen. Fox families are called a skulk or a leash of foxes.

The litter size is 1-11 pups, and they will live in an underground den for 7 months raising the pups. At first, only the dog will hunt. Later the Vixen will also pursue.

They prefer to be solitary when they are not raising young. You will probably know if you have a fox den very close to you because foxes are smelly! They are also very playful; they have been known to steal golf balls from golf courses to play with them.

Foxes have 40 different sounds they make to communicate. The most common one to hear is a scream-yip sound, usually at night.

One night while lying in bed waiting for sleep, I heard that sound for the first time and said to my husband, “What is that sound that sounds like a baby pterodactyl?”

He laughed at me and said, “How do you know what a baby pterodactyl sounds like?”

I told him I was a little-known authority on the matter and asked again if he knew what that sound was.

He then told me it was a fox. I got out of bed and looked out my window, and there under the safety light next door, was indeed a fox.