Foxes are an animal that lives on the edges of both our backyards and our consciousness, inhabiting the twilight regions just out of our sight and within our imagination as tricksters and guides. There’s something almost magical about them, or at least there was to me, growing up as a kid obsessed with them. Of course, the lion’s share of foxy fairy tales and mythology tends to focus mostly on the Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), the familiar reddish-orange creature with a bushy, white-tipped tail. Here in Mohave County, we don’t really have any of those (though Arizona does lay claim to some Red Foxes, mostly in the northeastern part of the state). What we do have are two species. One is the Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis), a tiny, nocturnal, sandy-colored desert fox with proportionally HUGE ears. The

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