Hunter and 🦊

This is a heartfelt (and darkly funny) comic strip with a twist ending. Here’s the full story, panel by panel:
A father takes his young daughter out hunting in the snowy woods. The target: red foxes. The little girl is clearly uncomfortable with the idea of shooting real animals.
While they’re walking, the girl is distracted by her phone. She’s looking at an ad or listing for cute red fox plush toys/pets priced $800–$1000. She shows it to her dad with big hopeful eyes.
The dad, remembering something painful (flashback panels show him and the same little girl, now older, at what is clearly the mother’s funeral, and later the daughter as a teenager crying while hugging him), realizes how much his daughter misses her mom and how lonely she’s been. He doesn’t want to make her sad anymore.
They continue tracking fox prints in the snow. Suddenly the dad spots something and excitedly points it out. The girl looks thrilled.
They peek over a ridge and see… an adorable real family of red foxes (parents and kits) playing happily in the snow.
The dad raises his shotgun, aims… and the girl panics, thinking he’s about to shoot them.
But the dad deliberately fires into the air (“BANG!!”), scaring the foxes so they run away safely. Birds scatter from the trees.
The girl looks confused (“?”), holding her phone.
Cut to later: The dad is showing his wife (who’s recovering in the hospital) a photo on his phone of him and their daughter happily hugging a giant red fox plush toy (or possibly a real rescued fox kit — the comic leaves it ambiguous). The caption says “Best Mum” with hearts. The wife is smiling in the hospital bed, and the dad is overjoyed.
The punchline/twist: The dad pretended to be a terrible shot and “missed” on purpose so he wouldn’t have to kill the foxes in front of his daughter. Instead, he used the moment to give her something that makes her happy and reminds the family of better times.
It’s a wholesome anti-hunting story wrapped in dark humor — the dad was willing to look incompetent (and scare away the foxes) rather than traumatize his daughter again. The loud shot was just to save face while letting the foxes live.2.3sFast