Wildlife Group Search For Fox Unsuccessful

Wildlife group search for injured fox unsuccessful
Tuesday, November 2, 1999
By Celeste & Jeff Burger [Palm Valley]
St. Augustine Record

It seems there's never a dull moment down here in the Valley.
Yesterday as I walked out my front door I noticed a distant figure
lurking at the edge of the woods in our yard. As I approached the figure it
turned out to be a woman clad in long (elbow length) heavy duty gloves and
bush gear. Upon identification the woman turned out to be Karen Inman of St.
Johns Wildlife Care, Inc. The purpose of her visit was to locate and rescue
an injured and scared silver grey fox last seen darting into our woods from
the parking lot area of the Lil Champ store across the street.
Yet the tale she told me that led up to this point of the rescue left
me a bit perplexed. It seems a lady driving down Roscoe Boulevard in her BMW
noticed a fox impaled on a gentleman's front bumper of his truck going the
opposite direction. The woman turned around and sped after the spectacle,
following the vehicle until it pulled into the Lil Champ. Apparently the
driver was totally unaware he had hit the fox or that it was impaled on his
bumper.
At this point a small crowd was forming and in-between the time Karen
was reached on her wildlife emergency pager (in St. Augustine) and the time
she arrived at the scene, the scared injured fox hobbled off on three legs
crossing a swollen drainage ditch and was seen fleeing into the woods!
No sign of the fox. His escape from the area is about as incredible as
the story.