Today, my brother came up to visit South Eastern Seminary in Wake Forrest. After visiting the Seminary, he stopped by my sister's work in Raleigh and we ended up having dinner. Our dinner conversation turned to the hysterical events of the morning in Lenoir county and what our nutty uncle Jesse did. Our uncle and 91 year old grandmother live together and are both nocturnal. Jesse had fallen asleep around 2am, but woke up around 4am and went outside. He has about 20-30 cats (yes that is correct!) that are out door cats and one inside cat named Lucky (that's another story). When he went outside he called the cats; instead of being greated by his plethora of cats, he was greated by a fox that appeared from under the car at the back door. Jesse went back into the house to get the pistol to scare the creature away; when he stuck the pistol throught the latice work on the back porch the fox stuck his nose to the end of the barrel. This immediately alarmed Jesse thinking the animal was rabid. Jesse pulled the trigger and shot the animal, however the animal was not instantaneously dead! After the first shot, the fox had slid down the stairs and landed at the bottom on the cement slab at their back door (their car was also parked in the vicinity). Jesse shot the animal two more times for a grand total of three shots before the animal was rendered dead. The big question raised by my siblings and I was, how in the world did a bullet not ricochet and hit him or the car? Also one of his cats (a blind one) had been laying near the front tire of the car, Jesse was concerned that the fox had done something to it, so at like 5am Jesse called 911 explaining to them that it was not an emergency call...... of which they told him to call the correct department during the day(?) or something of that nature. So the people came and got the fox and carted the cat off (which was put down) all the while the animal patrol people were telling my uncle to calm down!
Meanwhile my 91 year old grandmother supposedly knows nothing of the fox story....
