Six baby foxes apparently abandoned by their mother in far northwest suburban Cary this week and suffering from the cold appear to be doing better.
A woman found the baby foxes, also known as "kits," in a window well at her home on Wednesday night, when the temperature in the area reached 31 degrees. Workers at the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Barrington rescued the kits.
The facility's executive director Dawn Keller tells WBBM Newsradio they were suffering from hypothermia when they were found, but they're now warm, fed and clean. But there's a lingering question about the whereabouts of the babies' mother.
Keller says foxes don't normally abandon their kits long enough for them to suffer hypothermia. Workers at Flint Creek have now put up a camera at the home where the kits were found to see whether their mother returns.