We saw a dead fox yesterday
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We were 2m away so really close to the spot and there was no fox. Went for a walk, stopped there as the children just had to throw stones in the stream. When we came back 2 1/2 hours later it was lying there dead and unmarked lying up against a tire under a pipe next to a foot bridge.
We think it was poisoned or ate poisoned rats because it was down near a stream and a certain rat poison induces thirst-not sure if it's still used actually. I stood not 2 meters from the spot looking at the dumped tire thinking about the morals of the person who dumped it there. So it definitely wasn't there when we went past the first time. If it was under the bridge the children throwing rocks into the stream would have scared it so it went up the gully and the effort killed it.
Tragic.
Modify, we phoned the SSPCA asap despite the fact it wasn't moving because we didn't take it's pulse.