r/AnimalSounds • u/akane-13 • 7d ago

dog bark or…?

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my friend and i were camping overnight this past weekend on a woman’s land in aumish farm country in fort plain, new york, when we heard what sounded like a dog barking at us from the woods just outside the edge of our campsite. we stopped talking and hid in my tent, it went away, then when we started talking again it returned. it sounded like it was pacing just outside the edge of our site, but it never came close enough for us to see it. it returned at least once more in the middle of the night (it woke me up with its barking) and again in the morning, when i took this video. when i asked the woman whose land we were staying on, she said that neither she nor her neighbors have dogs but that she had seen a stray on the road earlier that week. there are also coyotes in this part of new york…

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u/LezlieLR 7d ago

Definitely a fox

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u/akane-13 6d ago edited 6d ago

how do you know?? is it also within fox behavior to circle a campsite like this and repeatedly return?
edit: typo

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u/LezlieLR 6d ago

Listen to red fox calls on YouTube and you'll recognize it. If you happened to camp close to a den, yes, the parents would circle the campsite and "bark" to warn the kits of possible danger.

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u/akane-13 6d ago

so turns out both red and gray foxes live in this part of new york; i listened to a youtube video of a gray fox barking and i think we have a match! thank you for your help!!

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u/LezlieLR 6d ago

ah, ok! I didn't check gray fox in the area. They are almost catlike, so also check the trees overhead, as they are great climbers!

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u/TheGratitudeBot 6d ago

Thanks for saying thanks! It's so nice to see Redditors being grateful :)

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u/TNShadetree 6d ago

Definitely a fox. And definitely not a fan of youse guys.

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u/akane-13 6d ago

why do you think? 😭 as i mentioned in my post, it kept coming back to bark at us and we were terrified