Comments on: Animal Guide: Red Fox

By: triuan

triuan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:21:19 +0000

this is so interesting it helped

By: Tami

Tami — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:44:56 +0000

Ive caught a red fox with my hands once. I dunno i saw him chased him and got him….im native indian so were nuts like that lol. Anyway he was sly and didnt move bite or yell as he sat on my lap while i plucked the vast amount of ticks and burs off him. I let him go, he ran off stopped looked back then cooly walked away. Now he is full grown and hangs about the area. In the back of my house today i saw a lovely family of deer and there was foxy, calmly walking past them. At nite sometimes their calls are kinda spooky, sounding like a screaming woman at times but they are mating and simply locating each other. They are not necessarily nocturnal animals but they do hunt mostly at nite while they graze and strut around during the day. As for dogs, dogs mark their territories so they wont go near them and if they do they most likely wont attack. These animals wont prey on other animals bigger than them. Plus they enjoy vegetation as much as they do meat and can be scavengers just the same. On the whole, they are peaceful calm creatures that u can allow to wonder around u without being attacked. Like i said, today foxy was two feer from a young deer and didnt even bother it. It was cute. As far as rabies go, they wont get friendly just it makes them confused and they will come closer to humans. Rabies also come easier to wild animals who live in an area where there are more people. I live in the middle of nowhere in outer philly so they are safe. And as for foxes controlling the squirrel population, well, we have lots of them and i havent seen any signs that foxy has been eating them, however the rabbit family that resides under my bushes each year hasnt been seen in quite a while. I let my kitties out and have no issues but i know foxy eats my trash at nite:)

By: molly

molly — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:22:40 +0000

awesome helped me lotz on my report!!!

By: ed

ed — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:08:53 +0000

thank-you helped a lot with my oral presentation

By: dianne puryear

dianne puryear — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:45:59 +0000

i have heard that some red fox’s do have a type of rabies that sometimes causes them to be overly friendly? do you know of this? also i have a 5 ft fence and 3 small dogs–are they in danger if inside the fence? last week a fox bite a girl trying to get to her cat–it had rabies. i live in bham ala. thank you

By: dianne puryear

dianne puryear — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 03:43:26 +0000

everyone in our subdivision is seeing a fox or fox’s daily. they come into the yards in the park area around the ball fields–seem to have no fear of humans
i have heard that some red fox’s do have a type of rabies that sometimes causes them to be overly friendly? do you know of this? also i have a 5 ft fence and 3 small dogs–are they in danger if inside the fence? last week a fox bite a girl trying to get to her cat–it had rabies. i live in bham ala. thank you

By: Jeff Newhouse

Jeff Newhouse — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:45:35 +0000

We have several Red Fox killing our chickens and Roosters. They rip their heads off and eat very little of them.

By: Anita Colliere

Anita Colliere — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:13:56 +0000

My house backs up to park land and I heard this awful crying like screech it was almost like a baby crying. I searched my yard for an injured animal and found a red fox in my back yard. What was the crying for? Also, as I was sitting on my back patio a fox came up to me as close as 4 feet away. I moved and it ran off. My question is is it normal for a fox to be out in the daytime?
Thanks,
Anita

By: Jane Pieton

Jane Pieton — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:06:47 +0000

I was walking my dog a few nights ago, when I saw a fox watching us from a long dark driveway. My dog and I kept walking down the road and the fox started gingerly following us. Everytime we stopped, he stopped. We played this little game down the road and back again. I was calling out to the little fox and whistling softly to him as u would a puppy. He was so sweet, I was hoping he would follow me home. My question, Is this normal behavior for a fox? Have you ever heard of such a thing?

By: carol reich

carol reich — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:47:39 +0000

saw red fox in backyard about 1:30 pm are they nocturnal? could he be rabid? do they eat the blossom on daylilies?