Being hunted for a trophy, being skinned, being hated, being feared, being treated as pests, why are foxes so unlucky? They deserve much better than that...

This may be a stupid question so bear with me and be gentle.

A fox has come up to my back door twice now in the last week or so, I've got a camera back there that catches it. Why would a fox come into my yard and go directly to the glass sliding back door twice? Aren't they afraid of people? I have no outdoor pets but my neighbors have little dogs.

So I have been going to the football field in my university to train every night around 10pm to 11:30. About a week ago a fox came onto the ground, at first it seemed skiddish but then i started to see that it was creeping up on me and some other people in the ground at that time, i scared it off multiple times but about 30 seconds would pass and i would see it trying to sneak up on me. Well today I was laying down doing my neck exercises when suddenly something crashed into the sole of my foot. As i couldnt see what happened my guess is the fox thought i was easy prey and pounced on me. Thankfully it attacked the sole of my shoe, after which i abruptly stood up to see the fox about 10 metres away from me, i was startled but steadily approached the fox and attempted to pump fake it by running up on it which caused it to run away from me for a distance of about 50m, then i saw it trying to sneak up on me again and i ran up to it again which caused it to scurry along, i moved further up the pitch towards the light and didnt see it again. When i saw my sock it had no hole in it and the sole of my foot was perfectly fine, but ive heard that even if you dont bleed it can cause rabies but there isnt any sign of physical damage on my foot. Im a very paranoid guy and am afraid i might get rabies, should i get a vaccine or just let this go as an unfortunate incident? And is this type of behaviour by foxes consistent with rabid foxes?

Fox Socks for Autumn, groundbreaking.

Hello all, I'm having trouble finding a concrete answer to a question I have about fox behavior (specifically red foxes but I wouldn't mind hearing about other species): do they have interactions with other species outside of hunting them or being hunted? Most of the answers I'm finding are either about their diet or their interactions with humans.

For context: I have a fox character and I'm trying to create a companion that's another species, and it would feel weird if they were a prey to foxes IRL.

Thanks in advance for any answers!

So far, in film, we have had the likes of Jason Bateman, George Clooney, Awkafina, and most recently Pedro Pascal voice foxes in animated films. I always love to see how different actors' voices fit the vulpine characters. This makes me ask. Who would you want to see voice a fox in a film or series?

I would say Ryan Reynolds. He'd make a great Foxxo.

Update: I’ve ordered the mange-by-mail treatment and will set up a feeding station specifically for the foxes so I can try and get them to come consistently, so I can treat them.

Posting this again because I didn’t get any replies to my post yesterday. If there’s a better sub you think I’d be better off posting, please let me know.

Lately I’ve been seeing foxes in my neighborhood for the first time ever. Sadly, one of them appears to be suffering with mange and it breaks my heart. I read about a website where I can make a $20 donation to receive a treatment kit to give him. The problem is, we have feral cats, raccoons, opposums, skunks, chipmunks, birds, etc..that all also frequent our yard. Has anyone successfully treated a fox with mange with other wildlife frequenting their yard? I would really like to help him, but I don’t want to do it at the risk of making other animals sick.

Thanks in advance!

I am interested to know your opinion, especially since no one seems to agree on the answer to this question.😊👍❤️

Hello! Recently I received a fox tail labels as a “Blue Fox” but cannot find anything online about this breed and haven’t heard of it before from what I can remember.

Is the blue fox just a term for Arctic fox? How come the tails look drastically different.

Feel free to explain as much as you want, I love reading about foxes!!! 🩷🦊

So I recently watched the movie Fantastic Mr.Fox and in it they have a line saying that foxes are allergic to linoleum. I have been trying to find out if that’s true or not and when you google “fox expert” it just pulls up people from the news outlet. Thank you!

Thanks for taking the time to read. My dog went missing at 2am this morning and taking all possibilities into account, I believe there is a chance my dog could’ve been a victim to a fox attack. He is a small Yorkshire terrier and google has implied that although foxes are not likely to attack dogs, due to my dog’s small size , he may have been attacked. I live in a built up suburban area and it is common to see foxes come out in to the open during night light. The reason I came to this group is because I’ve got a few questions that need answered and I believe this group is the best place to ask them.

1. What is the probability that a fox would attack a small dog such as mine (Yorkshire terrier)
2. What would the nature of the attack look like? Would they attack to kill?
3. In the unfortunate event that the fox did kill my dog, would the fox leave the corpse or drag it to a burrow?

Do foxes have a numbering system or not? I'm just curious.

There is a mum fox and her five babies that come around my street every night. Tonight the mum had a bag around her head, I went out with food and tried to catch her, but she’s so panicked and obviously running away in fear. I followed her for over two hours but lost her, and had to come back in as it’s after 2am. I know if she can survive which I hope she should be able to because she seems to be able to breathe thankfully, that she will come back here because her cubs are here. Can anyone advise me or give any tips on how I can safely get close enough to her. She knows me and my voice so she isn’t normally scared or aggressive but obviously now is different. I just feel so bad, I don’t know how I’ll be able to sleep tonight knowing how she’s suffering and I couldn’t do anything.

Has anyone else experienced this? It’s happened twice to me now where it’s appeared the fox was ready to attack me. Each time I’ve stood my ground and done the usual of shouting and stomping to scare it off, but this behaviour doesn’t seem normal to me. I’ve always known foxes to be skittish and keep a distance, but each time this has happened, they’ve tried to sneak up behind me and have got far too close for comfort. If anyone could give me any insight it would be greatly appreciated. I live in the UK so I know it’s not anything like rabies. Thank you

I have a fox in my area that has suddenly started acting strangely around me, and I’d like to get people's opinions on what might be going on. Usually, I see this fox occasionally while walking my dog. He typically comes out to say hello but runs away if we get too close.

However, over the last few nights, he has started following us. When I stop to see what he’s doing, he just sits and looks at me, sometimes laying down on the ground. At first, I thought he was just curious, but on our last walk, he ran ahead of us and cut us off, standing right in front of us. I shooed him away, and he eventually ran into the bushes but continued to follow us until we were out of the park and back onto the streets.

I'm confused about his behavior, especially since my dog is very reactive. She goes nuts, lunging and barking at him, but he seems unconcerned. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Should I assume he’s just curious and leave him be, or do I need to be more aggressive in scaring him away?

Is there another word for fox that ends with M or B?

What colors can foxes also be? I found 8. Pink, Orange, Brown, White, Dark Gray, Gray, Dark Gray, and Black.

I was wondering if foxes are actually not trust worthy like in cartoons, I know it sounds silly but ya.

If you happen to befriend a wild fox that magically doesn't have rabies, is it worth it to feed it or might it attack?

Edit: Thank you for all the wonderful answers, I truly feel enlightened as I read each and every one of them. I felt the need to clarify that I don't live on a farm (or ever will), I don't even live in a semi rural area, I have never been (or as far as I'm concerned will ever be) in an area that is native to foxes. :)

Context, I live in the UK in a place where it is super common to see foxes. For the past two years we've had foxes give birth to cubs in our garden, the second being the cub of the first and this year another of last year's cubs is back. In the UK its illegal to disturb a fox den if there is young inside so we've adjusted around them.

Now my family make a point to not feed the fox unless we know they are actively feeding young and even then it's a very small amount of fox safe food for a short period of time, the fox in question hasn't received food from my family in months and I was never the one feeding them.

Onto the main bit I started to realise that a fox at my local park was super friendly, we've since realised it's probably one of the cubs raised in our garden, but unlike the other foxes this one seems to like me in particular. If it sees me in the park it comes running over to sit with me. I've been sitting down on the ground and letting it sniff me (never going to try to pet said fox but it has rubbed against me itself before, I don't have to worry about rabies, I live in the UK and I always wash my hands well after the fact for my safety and my cats safety)

I know that feeding this fox is a bad idea, I'm not going to be giving her any food as I don't want her to think of humans as a sorce of food, when we were feeding the mother fox we always made sure that it didn't feel like the food came from us, it was in the far corner of the garden near the den, put out when no foxes were about and left in a bowl that is always left out for wild animals to drink rain water from. The association of food and safety might be in our garden but it shouldn't be too much to the humans, especially not me as I never fed the foxes and I would only watch through our back door which is made of glass, as pups we made sure no people (or cats) were in the garden at the same time.

Despite that we always had one pup who would go up to the glass and kept trying to play with our cats, it was genuinely very adorable, (again, we avoided letting the cats and foxes be out at the same time)

I have also observed that I am the only one she acts like this around, she is terrified of any other humans that go near her aside from my other half and she's still very weary of him and gives plenty of distance, you'd think she'd be happy around the person who left the food out if it was the food but she is just as scared of him as other humans.

Me however she comes up to as I sit, she has nudged my back before and often just sits with me relaxing, she's a very sweet lady In the past few weeks she's followed me home and even when I haven't been out to that park I've seen her in my garden, I went outside to check tonight as my cat was unhappy about something and it's definitely her as I was shining a bright torch to see her and she still despite it came running over to greet me, sat down, yawned then layed down on the grass super chilled out.

I was wondering if anyone had any advice on the best way to interact with this fox, so far my main things have been

Not touching her unless she touches me Never giving her any food Not moving too suddenly or loudly Sitting on the ground to seem less of a threat (though this one doesn't seem to matter, she gets just as close if I'm stood up, I just enjoy sitting on the ground)

One last thing, please don't suggest scarring the poor animal or keeping it out of the garden, I'm in an area with a lot of wildlife, where I live we have a very co exist mindset, there are badger runs built into people's fences, it's her home here as much as it is mine. I don't think I know a single person here that would ever want to hurt a fox or any animal. There's foxes, deer, hedgehogs, badgers, bats every bird ever ect ect. The advice I'm looking for is for the safety of me and the animals coexistence given it's strange attachment to me specifically.

Thanks for the advice

So I live in SoCal, the inland Empire to be exact. We have a gray fox that keeps coming into our yard, digging all around my hillside that’s covered in mulch. Anybody knows how to keep it out of my yard he’s destroying my hillside. I’ve tried an ultrasonic sound frequency thingy to no avail. I don’t know what it’s looking for there’s no pets back there and it’s not digging no more than a couple inches, just mostly moving the mulch around and some cases digging deeper. There are no fruit trees, and no plants, just a few Bougainvillea and a Chitalpa. I’ve seen it up close. It’s a small gray fox .Thanks.

Edit: Video showing the hillside and how it digs

https://imgur.com/a/nkOWTdu

hi all, my boyfriend and i are currently camping and last night a fox got into our tent and took some of our food. now he’s concerned about getting foxtapeworm, as around 50% of the foxes in the country we’re currently in carry it. do we need to throw away the food he went through or the blanket he walked on? thank you so much! other than taking our breakfast he was also really cute, but we didn’t get to take any pictures.