LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

To Sentinel Readers:

I enjoyed reading the fox tales in the last Sentinel and wanted to share one of my own.

One very cold morning just before Christmas I was driving my daughter to school when we came upon a young fox, curled up like a sleeping cat in the middle of Red Rock Drive. It was unconscious and we later learned it had been clipped by a car and was suffering from head trauma. We felt we couldn’t leave it in the road, and a very good friend and neighbor helped bring the fox to my house.

Thankfully I was referred to Kris Wagner at the Ellicott Wildlife Center, and she picked up the fox later that day. Kris is a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, and we are so lucky to have her living right here in Larkspur. She treated the swelling on the brain and gave the dehydrated fox an IV. Over the next few days, Kris gave that fox constant care.

We weren’t very hopeful it would survive, but we cheered when we learned the fox had sat up and eaten her first mouse! After four weeks of rehabilitation the young fox was ready to be released in our front yard. What a stirring sight to see that fox, once so badly injured, run off into the woods looking beautifully healthy. I believe a video of the release can still be seen at the Ellicott Wildlife Center’s Facebook page.

–Anna Hoffman