"Mmmmm, I'd look fabulous in those Manolos!" Photo: ahisgett/Flickr
A female fox has been identified as the perpetrator of a year-long shoe-stealing scheme in the idyllic town of Föhren in the hills of western Germany. For months, residents had been noticing that their slippers, boots, and sneakers were mysteriously disappearing from their doorsteps and back porches.
The case was cracked when a forestry worker stumbled upon an astonishing scene in the woods: dozens of shoes lay strewn on the forest floor surrounding a fox's den. Even more were discovered inside!
Tiny little teeth marks on the shoelaces leads the Count to theorize that the vixen had been stealing the footwear for her cubs to play with. That, or she "simply likes collecting shoes," say the locals. And, really, who could fault a female for liking shoes?
In a scene sounding like something out of "Sound of Music," Count von Kesselstatt ordered the shoes to be rounded up and laid out on the palace grounds for the local townsfolk to look over and retrieve their missing shoes.
Has the shoe-stealing vixen corrected her ways since being discovered?
Not a chance. "More shoes have gone missing in the last few days," reports the Count.
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