The GOOD and the Bad -the two types of fox feeder

I think it is time for some feeders to face the truth. Most suppliment feed foxes in the garden and if mange or another injury appears they treat irt and the fox(es) survive.

Those are the Good Feeders.

Inviting foxes into the homwe and wanting to treat it as a pet dog. BAD feeders. Go to a rescue and buy a domestic dog that really needs a new life.

Getting foxes into the house for photo opps on Social mediad is BAD. Fox in the fridge. Fox on the dining table. Fox lying in the washing machine. Fox on the sofa. Fox coaxed into rooms to be filmed taking food. BAD feeders. In a normal society that should be listed as a wildlife crime. Your "Likes" on Social Media is NOT loving foxes. You are abusing them -they are wild canids.

Then we have the one thing that I see over and over again on fox groups. "I have fed the fox(es) for 2 years now I am moving -will they be okay?" or "I feed the fox morning and evening and I am going away for a month -how can I make sure they are fed?"

Get a neighbour to "fox sit" and feed it for you. NO

Leave bags of dried dog kibble outside for them. NO

No longer be able to live your life because you are now commited to them and feeding them. NO.

Firstly, fox(es) start wandering into neighbours homes or hanging around their gardens defecating and urinating and maybe digging up: "nuisance fox". Solution ="Bang" and a pest controller earns a couple grand more.

There is a simple solution. Only feed foxes what foxes eat and keep them wild in the garden where supplimentary feeding sees them through any hard winters or the rearing of cubs. That is it. That is what the Good feeders do.

It is no one elses responsibility than your own what you do. Foxes eat rats, mice, voles, insects like moths and beetles as well as fruit -their natural diet and this time of year they SHOULD be looking lean.

Going away or moving permanently? Feed less and less in advance.

Good Feeders help keep foxes healthy and shy of humans which is THE best way we can help them survive.

Bad feeders are just keeping pest controllers in business by raking in thousands. You are helping kill foxes.

Not the truth you want to hear but it is fact and I've studied foxes since 1976 and right now we have so many feeders that we could be achieving a great deal in protecting foxes. Instead Bad Feeders sit back and do not even sign petitions aimed at helping foxes.

Use your brains. Keep foxes alive.