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Wow, I meant to tell you guys, I came across a mother fox and a baby fox while I was riding one of the dirt road trails that I normally ride around here. And I was asked to bring a lunch with me because I wanted to sit down by the pond and have a couple sandwiches and a joint and just sit down and take it easy. Well I fed one of my sandwiches to the fox and the baby fox. I laid it on the rock and backed the quad up and the fox took the sandwich and ran off into the woods with it. I was hoping they were going to sit there and eat it and I could watch them and maybe take a few pictures. Not a chance. The mother fox took the sandwich, ran into the woods with it and the baby followed it. But they were cute man. I've got a bad habit of feeding foxes around here. It's been bred into my family for generations that foxes by nature are not mean and they're not. At least the ones around here. Out by Cape Spear you can park in the parking lot out there at night and if you shut off your headlights and you're really quiet they'll come right down around the cars, park in the lot and investigate the cars because people have been feeding them for many, many decades. My grandfather started it with us when we were very, very young. What he would do is he'd go to the store and my family owns the store up here so he would go and get all the ends of the bologna's and the turkey breast and the salami's and stuff like that. All the ends, you know the ones you can't really cut up and sell people and we would take a bag of ends out to Cape Spear and we'd feed the foxes. It was something we did regularly. So when I got older my brother-in-law and my sister we took my nieces and their kids out to feed the foxes and it blew their minds. We were a little more careful than my grandfather was because he was like, oh yeah they're all friendly and he had names for them all and we were calling them by names and stuff. It was like a family thing. Now with my nieces we told them don't ever come doing this by yourself unless you're older or whatever because they could bite you. But I don't remember ever hearing a story of anybody getting bitten by a fox up here. And there was one they used to call it, my grandfather used to call it the mother fox. It only had three legs because it apparently had gotten caught in a rabbit snare and it only had three legs but it was still giving birth to the litters of babies. And it's those babies or their babies or something that are out there now to this day and you can still drive out there and feed them. I don't do it by hand anymore because I don't trust to not get the hand bitten off you but we'll lay things outside the car and they'll come and they'll eat it. We had foxes that were on the hood of the car. Me and my ex-girlfriend, geez 20 years ago now, went out.