Nature red

This is the beautiful fox who came into my allotment recently. But one of her back legs was completely useless, and she was emaciated and clearly starving. She was so ill she could barely jump over a knee-high fence, and she cared so little about our presence that she just sat down to rest quite close to us, in the middle of my lettuce seedlings. I felt so sad for her. It wasn't quite a dying polar bear on Frozen Planet, but it's not often that you see so close up the apparent cruelty of nature. Of course, it's not really cruelty, is it. It's just how it is.