If it's a varmit... I may shoot it but probably not. Foxes and things like that I just watch them and see the crazy things they do. He was a beautiful full coated fox and would indeed have made a nice mount if that's your thing. I don't even mount deer so don't worry about such things. If I can't eat it I usually don't shoot it. I suppose you could eat a fox if you had a mind to, but I have enough cereal in the cupboard to tide me through tough times. This bugger must have been in a deep sleep to allow me to sneak through 150 yards of corn going across the grain and never hear me. Seems like he'd go in his den and do his sleeping rather than out in the rain. Who knows, he may have needed the bath.