Texas Backyard Wildlife | Pale Fox supervising Chris to make sure he gets to and from the water bowl without straying @TexasBackyardWildlife | Uploaded July 2024 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
Dan and I went away on vacation for a week in late June this year and our friend Chris moved in to look after the critters for us while we were gone. Chris is a good guy, obviously. The critters like him and so do we.

One morning when Chris went to put fresh water in the bowl by the big live oak, Pale Fox followed him all the way down the trail, and then he turned around and followed him all the way back to the house, trotting along behind and supervising from a respectful distance.

Pale Fox is a friendly creature, but we've never seen behavior like this before. We think he's in love.

When we got home, Pale Fox was waiting for us on a stump by the firepit. We greeted him and told him we'd missed him while we were away. He raised an eyebrow and said "Yeah, nice to see you guys, too. Where's the tall dude?".