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Sadly not the Shutdown Fox, but it probably looks something like this. Via Shutterstock.

Update: Shutdown fox, is this you?

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While the shutdown may spell nothing but trouble for us humans, woodland creatures are having a ball infiltrating the now unregulated national parks and memorials. This includes the White House grounds and kitchen garden, where a fox has now taken up residence, apparently.

According to Obama Foodorama—a blog about White House food initiatives—Michelle Obama’s kitchen garden, located on the South Lawn, has been seriously suffering since the shutdown furloughed most of the National Park Service gardeners who tend to the garden. As a result, “the vegetables filling the 1,500 square-foot plot are now rotting away on the vines and in the boxed beds,” weeds have taken over the garden, and “the vegetables that have already fallen off the vines are now mouldering on the ground.” The garden has been overtaken by squirrels, as well as the “newly arrived fox now making a home at the White House.”

But the skeleton crew still working to maintain the garden has all but given up on capturing the fox:

Thanks to the shutdown, groundskeepers have given up on their efforts to catch the elusive creature, who showed up to live inside the White House gates more than two weeks ago. It has been spotted many times at dawn and dusk, according to the White House source.

Long live Fantastic Mr. Shutdown Fox.

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