We have some friends who have a really well-built chicken coop. Sometimes we help them with the birds when they are out of town and bring back eggs.

A while back they had a stump in front of the house with a family of foxes living in it and they pointed a game camera at it.

Night after night they got footage of the fox mama bringing back other people's chickens to feed to her kits.

The moral is, I think, that the well-built chicken coop is a good investment.

There's something about these basic self-locking/self-unlocking mechanisms that's so satisfying. It's like they exercise my brain in a way it's not used to exercising, like that really good stretch you do sometimes that really hits that spot. Reminds me of knots: I geek out about knots sometimes, and it's just so profoundly weird to think "in knots", I feel like an alien when I'm doing knots, or like my brain is doing cirque-de-soleil-type contortions. I guess this says something about how mundane my usual mental activity is.

Would a fox be able to lift the wood without the hinge lock? Say if it was just tied directly without the hinge to block lifting it.

I would like to compliment the video for being useful to purpose, simple, no annoying TikTok voice over, no voice over at all as it's not necessary, no unnecessary text. It's just a simple here's the thing, here's it working, here's why it works, and here's some detail on how it was built.