7/4/2023 0 Comments Fox and i by catherine ravenRaven hunts, lounges, and plays hide-and-seek with Fox. That is, until the fox, whom she calls Fox, shows up, and starts to change her life.Īs with any friendship, Fox and Raven’s is cultivated by sharing in each other’s interests. Socially awkward and on her own since the age of fifteen, she has become content with living a life of solitude. Indeed, besides the people she meets during the field tours she leads in Yellow Stone National Park and the students in her online classes she teaches to sustain herself, she does not seem to have any meaningful relationships. Raven, a biologist and former Park Ranger, builds herself a cabin as far outside of society as one can reasonable get, presumably to escape people. This unique situation serves as a catalyst for Catherine Raven’s memoir Fox and I: An Uncommon Friendship in which she tells the story of her short lived but impactful friendship with a wild fox that visits her home in the largely uninhabited Montana wild. What do you do? Do you scare it off, or call animal control? Now what if that fox were come back to your yard every day, at the exact same time? A fox with fur the color of fire, swiftly paces around in your backyard, looking for food or maybe just a place to sit.
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