By Tyler Wright
One resident recently came face to face with a spectacular animal: a whiter-than-usual fox that has been spotted roaming around Gembrook.
Local Lee LaWeaver, 57, said a pale fox, with slight tints of red, wandered onto her property on 31 March, with her cat screeching at her lounge room window in response.
“I was packing stuff away and starting to close the blinds in the house and I could hear my cat making an absolute ruckus down in the lounge room, and here he is behind the blinds and here’s the fox right up near the windows,” Ms LaWeaver said.
“At one point, he actually sat under the window and I was talking to him through the window, and he was turning his head sideways, looking at me like he was very curious about everything.”
It is not the first time Ms LaWeaver has been made aware of the animal after she captured it on a home security camera a few months ago.
“It was 6pm and it had just gone dark, and we had our blinds up and he trotted up the driveway and was trying to see if he could get out under our gate, and decided that he couldn’t and then trotted back down the driveway,” she said.
“I got home at about 10pm and here he is running up my road.
“He was definitely very pale, and I’d not seen a fox like him before.”
For Ms LaWeaver, the sighting of the fox was “not just a random thing”.
“It was a very special moment and I adored him coming around because I know people consider foxes to be a problem, but I love them. I think they’re gorgeous creatures.
“I’m very spiritually based, to me that’s a special sign.”
Foxes are declared as established pest animals in the state of Victoria under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 (CaLP Act).
