In 2001, this mother fox and her family were our neighbors...

...momma lovingly raised her five children, two of whom are in this photo...

...and sometimes momma would stand on the roof of her home and we would just look at each other.  The Bible teaches us that we are to love our neighbors as ourselves.  If we truly love, we will do no harm.  See Our Neighbors the Foxes

(Fox - 11)  Momma had set up housekeeping in our wood pile, which is about forty feet from our home.  She and her family were indeed our neighbors, and no less deserving of our love and respect than any of our other neighbors, or how we want to be treated by our neighbors.  When we learn what it means to love God with all our heart, soul, and might (Deuteronomy 6:5), and to love our neighbors as ourselves (Leviticus 19:18), we realize that such love includes the whole of creation.  This fox knew that she was welcome to live in her new home, and that we wouldn't harm her children.  Together, we took a step closer to experiencing the "peaceable kingdom" that Isaiah spoke of in 11:6-9, where we will not hurt or destroy in all of God's holy mountain.

Photo from:  Our Neighbors the Foxes