Dash, Vixen and others in “The Long Tailed Visitor”

Did you win?

I think we won, didn't we fox?

No we didn't win.

We did win, we did! The Badgers must have killed fifty rats each! And Adder, and Sinuous, they were magnificent!

It doesn't matter how many times we attack Bully and his rats, we will never be able to kill enough of them.

Oh I'm sure we will.

Yes, of course we will. [licks right paw as it's been bitten by rats]

[shakes head] There's too many of them, and more all the time. Every hole in the forest has a rat's nest in it. Litters of healthy new young, born every few minutes. They grow to fighting size between one full moon and the next. More, more all the time.