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Murder in the night

After working all weekend, more than anything I wanted to get my portfolio up and then get a good night’s sleep. I “sort of” got my portfolio up (I’m still no jquery expert, so some tweaking needs to be done), and settled down to sleep.  After an hour of “Ring my bell” in my head (catchy dance tune, not a great sleeping song), I finally got my eyes closed.

I was jolted awake in the middle of the night by an animal being murdered outside the window.  It sounded like a fox, maybe a baby fox, being attacked.  It was desperate to get away, moaning and screaming.  This continued for about 10 minutes.  Should I do something?  What could I do? It would take me 3 minutes to get downstairs and outside. And then it got worse, and I could hear the moment it died.  You don’t actually often get to listen to an animal being slaughtered, and it made me unsettled to realize that I didn’t do anything.  Should I have?

Update:  Someone told me that this could have just been the female fox during the mating process…. scary!

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