A Windsor resident is asking for the general public’s assist to seize two injured foxes roaming within the east finish of town.
“They will not survive,” mentioned Christine Harvie, a close-by resident. “They have no fur to keep them warm.”
She said the pair are suffering from mange, a severe skin disease that causes scabs, lesions and hair loss.
Harvie is working side-by-side with local tracker Mary Morneau, who set up a five-foot by seven-foot trap with cameras and sensors on Harvie’s driveway.
The driveway is also scented with a liquid concoction of water, chicken, fresh food and barbecue sauce.
Once the animals enter the cage and eat from the main feeding station, the trap door shuts.
But Harvie said one trap isn’t enough.
Christine Harvie seen in Windsor, Ont. on Nov. 13, 2024. (Stefanie Masotti/ Ontario Chronicle Windsor)
She is asking anyone living on Banwell Road, Chateau Avenue or anywhere around the Blue Heron Pond to allow Morneau to set up a similar trap, free of charge.
“You have to make sure that you can monitor it 24/7,” mentioned Harvie.
“Food, water, scenting and being able to watch it on the camera, even in the evening.”
In the event you don’t need to skill to assist entice the animals, Harvie is asking to maintain a watch out and report any sighting on the Riverside Bulletin Board’s Fb web page.
“We need to know where the foxes are, daily locations, patterns, where they’re coming,” she defined.
“We don’t want people feeding them right now. We want them hungry, so they go to the locations of the traps.”
The Windsor-Essex County Humane Society arrange a brief entice at Blue Heron Pond however have since taken it down.
WECHS dwell entice. (Supply: Christine Harvie)
“We found that we were catching everything but the fox,” mentioned Lynette Bain, WECHS govt director.
Harvie and her husband, Dale, aren’t any strangers to rescuing animals in want. For 13 years they’ve rescued a number of animals together with a goose, geese and turtles.
Christine Harvie’s husband Dale. (Supply: Christine Harvie)
However this rescue is extra significant.
“One of the foxes came by my house, sat at the front steps, looked at our home and sat on a rock,” she mentioned.
“I felt like it was a gift to honor my late husband. He was an animal welfare officer.”
Wings Rehabilitation Centre mentioned they’re on standby and able to deal with the foxes as soon as they’re caught.
“We need the community pull together,” mentioned Harvie. “Let’s get these foxes caught.”
