A Chicken Slaughter, A Lesson in Force Protection
A Pentagon Journalist Learns a Hard Truth About Defense When a Fox Gets Into His Chicken Coop
The fox had been casing the joint for several minutes.
Afterward, a neighbor would report that she had seen the grayish-red beast lurking on the street as she went off to the gym at around 7:30 p.m. That would turn out to be the first sighting of the perpetrator of a daring urban raid.
The fox then moved two doors down, to the house where a white Labrador retriever normally patrols the yard. Sadly, disastrously, Buddy was on vacation, his premises unguarded. Two other neighboring dogs remained silent, unwilling to get involved …
