A few fox feeders have been overly concerned because regular garden visiting foxes have not been turning up. People are walking around streets looking for the foxes.
Firstly, these are wild canids and not pets. If it is a vixen with cubs it may move them away if it is worried about safety. Or they may just decide to move around a little.
Some of these foxes return after days, weeks, months and in a couple of cases a year after they 'vanished'.
You have to remember that the fox is not going to starve without you. Only by finding the clues -egg shells, small (chicken) bones etc did I find out that there are fox feeders in an area. Fox feeders tend to keep 'their' foxes secret and that means in one neighbourhood one fox might have 3-4 feeders.
Remember; foxes are wild and not your pet and as much as you think they love you they do not have the mindset of a domestic dog where you are the alpha and its feeder and it is loyal to you and sticks close.
Another problem; if you have fox cubs in your garden -either there following their mother or denned there- DO NOT try to grab and pick them up no matter how cute they seem.
Firstly, it might bite or the vixen will certainly take exception to your grabbing its young and you may get a bite from her.
Secondly, it imprints in the cubs mind that humans are friendly and that can be disasterous for the cub when it gets older and ends up getting clubbed or shot because, you know, "humans are nice.".
Keep foxes as wild as you can and skitty around people: if you want them to survive.
Photo Steven Faiers
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