One first drives off the fox, before taking the chickens home and blaming them for straying.
More Igbo Proverbs:
Dog eats excreta, but goat gets rotten teeth.Igbo
A snake that swallows his friend will have a tail sticking out of his mouth.
Igbo
A snake that swallows its neighbor will have a tail sticking out of its mouth.
Igbo
When the leopard has a broken paw, the antellope comes to collect an old debt.
Igbo
A travelled child knows better than the old man who sits at home.
Igbo
The dog said that it is better to walk behind those who have had a lot to eat, because if something doesn't come out of them one way, it is bound to come out of them another way.
Igbo