Sorry but we haven't had much contact recently.
Recent frustrating "chat" with Missie along the line
Missie "Look isn't she clever!
"
F "I can't see, show me"
M "Look at Beauty,
Look
Look "
F "Show me, what is she doing?
"
M "Hunting, she's getting much better, look she's really stalking well, Oooh she missed it
"
F "I never did see her
"
M "Sorry,
"
F " How's Mum?"
M "She's just Mum, she is busy with the little one(s)"
F "Where's Tufty"
M "Oh he's gone away for now, I'm with Beauty & she's learning to hunt and forage
"
Went on to say she thinks she and Beauty will set up home with Tufty, & Beauty will help Missie rear her cubs. Fenec will stay with Mum & help her. Fenec is really pretty & dainty but very reserved, rarely comes down, and when she does it is with Mum & Fenec sits on the side of the pond and watches Mum feeding.
The difference in characters, particularly of the females is amazing, Beauty is very like Missie, quite bouncy and extrovert whilst Mum and Fenec are both much more serious & it was Fenec that Mum was teaching when she was showing her Barry when he was ill. Reynard was more like Missie and Big was much more docile, although it is Reynard who has the characteristic "head up eating pose" of Kinkie & always sits down. The last time we saw Big he was slightly larger than Mum & a really handsome chap. They have both gone off now & we miss them
but that is the natural pattern, they need t find their own territory & partners
The DVD recorder was away for repair and they were coming late so we didn't see them for a couple of weeks but last time we saw them Beauty was limping. She came down OK, ate, went back up the bank & came down with a limp, 2 or 3 days later she is still limping.
but it doesn't seem to bother her and it is slowly getting better.
I did ask Mum but she didn't know anything about it, we didn't know who it was at first but she did say if it was a problem they would have gone back home. Now we see Missie and Beauty together and so we aren't worried as she isn't alone.
The boys have gone off but Blackie still comes back & hangs around Mum part of the time.
HH's are all well, and have produced a lot of young, they all seem quite large, some are almost as big as the adults & even the smallest look as though they are going to be viable. They come down with the foxes and all just step round each other
Kinnnie miaowed & slowly left. He came in to us purring like mad, really happy to have been so close to one of them. 
when there are so many milling around it's difficult to always tell who's who. 
