Amazingly I live in Fl, one acre homesite but not rural and I have had fox, hawks and an owl come after my Lacey. I have a fenced backyard Chloe and Lacey love to run but I am right there with them. Lacey is dark, small and short legged, I think she looks like a field mouse from up above.

Oh my! I hadn't thought about foxes although we have some. They usually stay in the brush line. It's coyote's that I'm afraid of. They'll eat cats and poodles I know - anything small. I just don't let her out without a leash period. Too many stray pit bull's around here and I've had coyote's right in the yard. I just couldn't bear it!

I knew there had been sightings of foxes around here, but I have never seen any. Then the other day a friend who lives between one to two miles from me said they had a fox and she gave birth to two pups since he first saw her! Great!

When Muffin was a baby, there was a possum that kept coming into her fenced yard. I did something I never thought I could do and that was to kill it one of those times because when it came to Muffin I was very, very protective - just being a mother!

We live just outside the city limits in a housing addition, but you can hear coyotes all around us at night. They are much thicker than they ever were years ago. A couple of years ago a neighbor a few houses down from us who also had little yorkies had one of them getting sick and throwing up. It was cold weather. She has a fenced yard, but in this instance she ran out the front door with him for some reason and set him down on the grass. She was freezing and ran in to get a sweater and when she came back out her little one was long gone! Lurking coyote, no doubt. I felt so sorry for her because she was older, but that was something I would never have done with Muffin. I know I was overprotective with her, but I loved her so much! Bad weather and bad animals and creepy, crawling snakes are the reason I kept pads in the garage for Muffin to use at night. We would go out sometimes at night, but not very often. Maybe this will save someone else from losing one.

I'm so glad she is OK! How scared you must have been! I couldn't imagine. In Alaska I had to watch out for Eagles and that was hard. I don't know what I would have done.

I never let mine outside odd lead except in our covered fenced in courtyard because I have heard of too many yorkies being carried away by owls and hawks. We also have coyote and I saved my cat from one right after we moved here. I hav never seen a fox but I will be careful of them too.