• Fester@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      I live in a small city but fairly close to the edge of wooded hills. All sorts of critters venture down around my house. One day, a fox was running around, maybe 50 yards away. It looks at me, runs away a bit, stops and looks back, does it again. I’m on my front porch, near my door. It turns to face me and we lock eyes. Staring contest. We’re having a moment. Suddenly it barks, a gritty high pitched chirp. Felt like an ice cube slid up my butthole.

      • wia@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        Dude. rabbits!

        Did not know the horror until family visited and their dog caught one and was playing with it. So terrifying!

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        2 months ago

        Rabbits sounds like screaming babies! Nearly had a heart attack when one got stuck in the spokes of a decorative antique bicycle in the garden and the neighbour’s cat was swatting at it. My mom was out there crying, trying to pull it out.

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      2 months ago

      I describe fox noises as sounding like a combination of shock and pain, like someone getting unexpectedly stabbed in the back with a fondue fork at what was up until then a nice party.

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      2 months ago

      They regularly use them as a sound effect in murder mysteries.

      Midsummer Murders, in particular, used the fox cry so often that I had to look up what the hell it was