Kotik fights against Foxes

After the death of Stassi Kotik does not stay here much. She was his "mother" and he loved her, probably. He joked with her sometimes. As you see on the photos, he occupied her place etc.

We think, he has a great territory. He is very busy to control it every day. Now he turns home only once in 2-4 days. And there are his kittens everywhere.







We did not see him one day, 2 days ago. But suddenly he came in very bad conditions. My husband called me and when I took him, I've seen his leg full of holes. Very big holes. Many. His leg seemed a sieve. First I thought about the worms. I've seen documentaries about the flys etc. But than we understood, those were holes from the teeth. It was a dog, we said. But it could not be, I thought than: there are not so little dogs here.

Than we understood: probably he had a quarrel with foxes. There is a family of foxes near us. If you follow my blog, you will maybe remember, I wrote about the slaughters of our hens they did in our henhouse different times a year or 2 ago. Let me see, here the first story and here the capture of the killer . I had other stories too because we captured the mother and 3 little foxes. And they killed our hens I do not remember how many times. From all that family remained only the father, we think. He created a new family than, but they do not come in our henhouse more (till today).

Kotik is probably not very wished neighbour. To control his territory, he passes near the house of the foxes. We saw once, he run from there to us so that we understood somebody followed him.
Now is the period when the foxes have little "kids" too. And a male cat surely disturbs them. So, this time Kotik had not fortune.





Interesting is that they all know, they have to come to us for help.
We have a medicine for the wounds of the animals and we spread it on his leg. He slept on his place but than he felt bad and began to cry with expression: you see I feel bad, do something! I feel bad.
I took a tab and was afraid to give it to him. It is necessary to put it in the throat. How have I do it?
But he opened the mouth and allowed me to put the tab in the throut. And the second day too. After that he felt good enough.
I wanted to spay the medicine on his leg today but he don't want. His leg is in bad conditions but he don't want I cure him more....

The next days will show, if he will survive.

The life is too sad, I think.