Foxes Arrive at New Home

A mother red fox was reunited with her six offspring Monday in the safety of a zoo miles from their former home near a new stretch of the Costa Mesa Freeway.

The mother fox and the last of her 12-week-old pups arrived at the Los Angeles Zoo a day after they and five other pups were captured by a team of wardens from the California Department of Fish and Game.

The pups’ father and a yearling were left to roam the embankment where the fox family had lived, Fish and Game spokesman Larry Sitton said. The embankment overlooks a one-mile freeway extension that is scheduled to open today.

“They should be able to survive on their own,” Sitton said. “They’ve roamed and hunted around the freeway for years. It was the mother and the cubs that everyone was so concerned about.”