Over Feeding Foxes

 

Please, if you feed foxes do not overfeed. A couple of chicken legs will do a fox every couple of days to supplement its diet. They eat rats, mice (so if they do their job no need to get the Council in to put down rodenticides which can end up accidentally killing the fox.

In suburban areas where you find wild rabbits that is THE main feature of fox diets. Add to that the mice, rats, beetles and other types of insects as well as fruits and berries and a fox does okay during summer. They SHOULD look lean as that is how they are built.

During winter and then the cubbing season foxes may need their food supplemented -same with badgers. Every year I see people reporting digging up eggs from gardens/garden planters or finding rotten chicken wings/legs.

Cut back on the chicken legs (I see people buying in bulk while there are families that cannot afford a proper meal for their kids) one and add some fruit to what you put out.

Seeing a huge plate piled high with baked beans (lots of sugar), cooked sausages, sausage rolls, pies and pasties when it is not needed is pretty bad -again, there are kids who go to school because school dinner is their main meal.

Just take a deep breath. Cut back on how much you spend on food for foxes when a cheap weebox or canned dog food with a little mixer will do. Add some fruit. When you are feeding 2-4 foxes each night 2-3 chicken legs, assorted other foods you CANNOT plead poverty when it comes to getting proper meds for them (mange etc).

One person spends "over £70" on chicken legs each month and buys in bulk when supermarkets put them on discount TO HELP FAMILIES THAT CANNOT AFFORD THE COST NORMALLY. Another told me that she spends "well over £60 a fortnight".

These are NOT pet but wild canids. If something happens to you or you have to move what happens then? I have seen this so many times "I have fed the foxes breakfast and supper for five years now I have to move" which means the foxes could go to another house and then..."nuisance fox!"

BANG

BANG

Dead fox

This HAS happened so PLEASE think of just giving foxes a snack every couple of days because health wise it is better for them and the environment.