Fox

Hi Xandra,

Poor little thing. He looks very thin and hungry.

There is an article in our daily paper today about a lady who went to open up her hen coup one morning. Her 4 hens ran out, and there in the corner was a dead fox, killed by her hens! That's a turn a round.

Hi Xandra

really nice photo, poor little guy, its been hard for all wildlife, this cold weather has been bad for them all

We have a fox who regularly hangs around outside our Church.  It once sat serenely on the grass verge as 200 primary school children filed past it less than 5 feet away!  Later on that night, it bit my friend's bicycle pedal and then (presumably finding that pedals are not very tasty) bit his knee too.  At that point, I took pity on both the fox and the friend and opened up a couple of cans of hotdogs from our harvest gifts.  I figured that foxes are "less fortunate than ourselves", after all!

Your fox has beautiful colouring, and you must be really pleased with the photo.  He doesn't look overly thin for a fox, actually, and his fur is in quite good nick, so I think he'll be ok.  Maybe he just fancied a chat?

Susan H said:

Hi Xandra,

Poor little thing. He looks very thin and hungry.

There is an article in our daily paper today about a lady who went to open up her hen coup one morning. Her 4 hens ran out, and there in the corner was a dead fox, killed by her hens! That's a turn a round.

Very unikely the chickens killed the Fox my guess is he just went in there and curled up to die,sometimes they will kill 20 or more so 4 would not stand a chance.Nice story though.

We had a fox which came and sunned itself under the trees at the end of our small 30' long garden.  It treated us with complete disdain and allowed us to get right up to it, whereupon it would open an eye, look at us, sniff in derision and go back to sleep again.

It also had a bizarre habit.  If it came across a right shoe, slipper, boot or whatever, it would carry it to the local school and leave it outside the door.  Never a left shoe, always and only the right!  On a nice evening, when everyone had been outside all day and there were thus a few discarded items of footwear around, you'd see a procession of neighbours trudging to the school to get their shoes back!

Alas I haven't seen it for a couple of years now, so I guess that it has one to sit on that great big Glacier Mint in the sky.

Hi iBozz,

Your story reminded me of our resident foxes from a year ago, sadly now no longer resident and departed to points unknown.  We had a family of 5- maw, paw and the bairns- who would come into the garden and feast on the apples laid out for the blackbirds, plus the vegetables I'd chucked on the compost heap.  This was in broad daylight, and due to unfortunate timing came days after a letter from the council instructing me to stop feeding the birds.  (I posted about this a while back)  They would come every day (the foxes, not the council.  They only came once) for a gambol (do foxes gambol?) in the garden, paw (or maw) skulking behind the hut, then allowing the bairns to overtake them.

The kids loved seeing them, and knew not to approach them, as they remained wild animals, and we all miss not having them around.  Fairly noisy at night, mind, which probably didn't endear them to the neighbours- especially the cat- loving harriden next door who lodged the council complaint in the first place.

My squirrel and woodmouse (well, not mine, but they live in my garden rent- free) are nice enough, but not in the same league. 

thankyou for all your reply,s I got the impression he was trying to come to us, but never seeing a fox that close I dident take chances.  i will take some food next time. 

Unknown said:

Has anyone ever had a fox come this close,  I was at formby point liverpool.   we had 4 terrier dogs child in buggy 8 year old and this fella wasent scared.   but i was , he was desparate for food I think ?

do foxes howl like wolf,  my 2 daughters heard howling sounds mad i know,   but we dont no what else could have been in the woods.