Do you feed your local fox?

snowgirl_3

I see foxes in my garden most nights and they arnt bothered by the outside light and come really colse to the house.

I do worrie because I keep 2 giant rabbits in the garden in a large run they have 24 hour access to and I do worrie when the fox hangs around.

I dont feed them as dot want to encurrage them to spend longer in my garden with my buns and g piggies.

lka200

I would never feed foxes..too much of a risk of attracting them to my darling ex battery hens. I live in a rural location and there are folk at the top end of the village who feed the foxes..needless to say that a lot of people have had their hens taken by the fox...in the daytime too...so distressing.
The problem with feeding them is they become tame and then just go around causing carnage in peoples chicken coops when food is not instantly available to them.
Foxes are mainly regarded as vermin in this neck of the woods, a lot of them end up shot.

Loopy_Girl

foreign_correspondent wrote: »

Foxes are not likely to go for a cat - urban foxes are far more interested in dustbins and rabbit hutches!

Noooooo.....don't say that - I'll not sleep tonight!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Funnily enough I was spekaing a friend about that the other night. I used to live in a city and would see urban foxes quite regulary but now I live in a small quiet town and have a very 'green' garden with lots of trees and stuff and I have never seen one....and would probably pass out if I did and worry myself sick about the bunny - AGAIN!!!:eek:

In answer to the question then I would say no, I wouldn't feed them. I don't even put scraps out for the birds as it just attracts god knows what and you don't know what is harmful to wildlife. Plus I always think that if you start to feed wild animals then they become too tame and lazy and that puts them at risk in the animal world.

lowis

there are LOADS of foxes around Islington, if you sit quietly at the curbside on one of the quiet roads in barnsbury or canonbury late at night, they stop and stare at you, and if you just happen to have some cat or dog food on you, and happen to tip it out on the floor next to you, the bolder ones willcome right up and eat the food - warily, but they are there, within 3 feet of you. amazing

i actually saw a fox run across paternoster square the other night, and it sat on the steps of st paul's cathedral briefly!

Notsosharp

lowis wrote: »

there are LOADS of foxes around Islington, if you sit quietly at the curbside on one of the quiet roads in barnsbury or canonbury late at night, they stop and stare at you, and if you just happen to have some cat or dog food on you, and happen to tip it out on the floor next to you, the bolder ones willcome right up and eat the food - warily, but they are there, within 3 feet of you. amazing

i actually saw a fox run across paternoster square the other night, and it sat on the steps of st paul's cathedral briefly!

That would be brilliant! I just have this picture of a fox sat on the steps just chilling for a bit!

I personally would not want foxes in my garden even though I wouldn't have a problem my rabbit and guinea pigs might!

catkins

I love foxes. I think they are beautiful and considering how mankind try and kill them and most of their habitat has been built on etc I think it is amazing how they survive.

I don't feed them although I would like to. This is for two reasons: one because I have a dog and I doubt they would come into the garden and two because I have also heard that if you feed them they become reliant on that food and do not bother to look elsewhere.

Skint_Catt

We used to have a big silver fox visiting my parents garden at night - Mum feeds everything that ventures in (four squirrels that come when called at the mo :rolleyes:) but she disappeared shortly afterwards. We guess the farmer next door got her