Spring has well and truly sprung, getting now to the point when eggs are hatching, flowers are blooming and wild animals are giving birth to their young. Depending on where you are in the world, baby foxes, or cubs as they are known, are likely to be spotted between April and July.
A baby fox showed up to say hi at my grandmother’s house
These playful and inquisitive creatures are just achingly cute, as you can see in these beautiful photos shared by Reddit user Vechrotex. The baby animals, curious and seemingly on a mission to explore, wandered onto Vechrotex’s grandmother’s porch and peered inside the window. “Do you have anything tasty for me maybe?”
Update: The baby fox at my grandmother’s house has a friend and they are chasing each other
Mama red fox keeps an eye on things while her cubs are exploring, Grandma’s porch is clearly an interesting place for the family. “The mom comes by a lot more than the baby foxes,” Vechrotex explains. “She is always close when her babies are on the porch.”
Another update to the baby foxes: his friend caught his tail!
“Here in Illinois we get red foxes in forested areas, we see these adorable animals a lot and it’s not that big of a deal,” Vechrotex told Bored Panda. “One day my grandma saw a baby red fox and took a picture of it. She shared the cute fox picture with me and I thought it was just so adorable, I decided to post it. I’m glad I was able to make so many people happy!”
Grandma now gets to enjoy watching the beautiful fox family visiting regularly, as the cubs frolic and put on a show, chasing each other around the porch. It kind of makes you want to move to a little house in the forest, doesn’t it?
The little baby fox from yesterday came back!
Newborn fox cubs are blind, deaf, dark-grey in color, and weigh only about 120g, but after 14 days, their eyes open. Their pupils are a striking shade of blue, and their first coat gives them a soft, fuzzy appearance. They have small, floppy ears and by now they weigh about 350g.
After four weeks, the cub’s pupils change color and are now greyish. White fur appears around the mouth and patches of red on the face and while the coat is still fuzzy, their ears are now erect. Now it’s hard to tell them apart from their parents, as they have grown up so quickly!
From late September they have grown a full winter coat and the family group breaks up. The cubs will set off to hunt, find a place to spend the winter, and eventually their own mates, so the process can repeat itself again!
Here’s what people had to say about the adorable scenes
The mama fox is stealing stuff until everyone has their eyes on the pups :D
Next time you visit your grandma's house near the woods, wear a red cloak and bring a picnic basket. I read a story like that once when I was a kid lol.
Let's all just hope The Disney Company doesn't find out about these little shenanigans, because there could be only two possible outcomes. Either they would acquire all three foxes, the forest, and all of the property (including Grandma) -- or they would sue her for copyright infringement and shut this whole thing down.
Make friends with the kit and keep feeding it food so when it grows up, it trusts you, and then when people come over and get scared that there is a fox in your backyard, just casually stroll to the fox and start petting it. And voila, you are the snow white of foxes now ;)
The picture of the fox at the glass looks like my doggy when he was a puppy.
We live on the countryside, near a forest. We have this Deer coming in our yard a couple of times a week - for the past 3 years! Sometimes it even brings a friend! It just stands there, 5 meters from the front door, waiting for me to bring it Apples! I LOVE being Apple-Mummy!
Rats are cute too though. They like shiny things btw.
Load More Replies... So cute! And I'm glad they confirmed the Mom was around. A note on the text, I think baby foxes are called kits, not cubs. Could be mistaken though.
Cub, kit or pup are acceptable. In the UK it is usually cub but maybe elsewhere kit is used more. Though the extreme cuteness is undeniable. Have a local friendly fox in my village... joins people in pub gardens.
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Any and all animals put a smile on my face, but these little creatures are simply adorable !!!
Left a dog toy in my yard one day and watched at dusk as a 'teenager' fox found it and spent the next hour playing by himself. It was the cutest thing ever!
They are so adorable & fun to watch. Please protect them & they need to co-exist with humans. They make this world more beautiful place.
They are totally adorable & fun to watch. Please protect these wonderful animals & they make this world a more beautiful place to live in.
What an adorable fox! Hopefully more little fox babies are born! It's so sweet that the grandma has some fuzzies to keep her company!
So very sweet..but..foxes are treated as vermin in Australia. There is quite often a bounty on fox skins. Sad as it is, they are an introduced species and do untold damage to our wildlife.
....and when those precious babies are all grown up they are hunted by heinous, evil hunters, die in agony, being torn apart by dogs especially trained for this despicable pastime. Please speak up against animal cruelty..
Awwwww! They are so cute! When I was a kid in the Midwest, grey foxes would come around to my grandparents' house (they had a 2-acre backyard). Now, every so often in my part of NYC, you might see a red fox with black paws. I've only seen one once.
I want a family of baby fox to show up in my yard.😍 we have deer a bear squirrels put the a*s and birds so far
It looks like I have to be the negative voice. While I admit that they are adorable, I am afraid of someone reporting them and that they could be determined to be too friendly to humans and it could get them destroyed. Or, best case scenario, they have to go to a sanctuary if one is available to take them. It happens all the time. Please be careful.
The mama fox is stealing stuff until everyone has their eyes on the pups :D
Next time you visit your grandma's house near the woods, wear a red cloak and bring a picnic basket. I read a story like that once when I was a kid lol.
Let's all just hope The Disney Company doesn't find out about these little shenanigans, because there could be only two possible outcomes. Either they would acquire all three foxes, the forest, and all of the property (including Grandma) -- or they would sue her for copyright infringement and shut this whole thing down.
Make friends with the kit and keep feeding it food so when it grows up, it trusts you, and then when people come over and get scared that there is a fox in your backyard, just casually stroll to the fox and start petting it. And voila, you are the snow white of foxes now ;)
The picture of the fox at the glass looks like my doggy when he was a puppy.
We live on the countryside, near a forest. We have this Deer coming in our yard a couple of times a week - for the past 3 years! Sometimes it even brings a friend! It just stands there, 5 meters from the front door, waiting for me to bring it Apples! I LOVE being Apple-Mummy!
Rats are cute too though. They like shiny things btw.
Load More Replies... So cute! And I'm glad they confirmed the Mom was around. A note on the text, I think baby foxes are called kits, not cubs. Could be mistaken though.
Cub, kit or pup are acceptable. In the UK it is usually cub but maybe elsewhere kit is used more. Though the extreme cuteness is undeniable. Have a local friendly fox in my village... joins people in pub gardens.
Load More Replies... Any and all animals put a smile on my face, but these little creatures are simply adorable !!!
Left a dog toy in my yard one day and watched at dusk as a 'teenager' fox found it and spent the next hour playing by himself. It was the cutest thing ever!
They are so adorable & fun to watch. Please protect them & they need to co-exist with humans. They make this world more beautiful place.
They are totally adorable & fun to watch. Please protect these wonderful animals & they make this world a more beautiful place to live in.
What an adorable fox! Hopefully more little fox babies are born! It's so sweet that the grandma has some fuzzies to keep her company!
So very sweet..but..foxes are treated as vermin in Australia. There is quite often a bounty on fox skins. Sad as it is, they are an introduced species and do untold damage to our wildlife.
....and when those precious babies are all grown up they are hunted by heinous, evil hunters, die in agony, being torn apart by dogs especially trained for this despicable pastime. Please speak up against animal cruelty..
Awwwww! They are so cute! When I was a kid in the Midwest, grey foxes would come around to my grandparents' house (they had a 2-acre backyard). Now, every so often in my part of NYC, you might see a red fox with black paws. I've only seen one once.
I want a family of baby fox to show up in my yard.😍 we have deer a bear squirrels put the a*s and birds so far
It looks like I have to be the negative voice. While I admit that they are adorable, I am afraid of someone reporting them and that they could be determined to be too friendly to humans and it could get them destroyed. Or, best case scenario, they have to go to a sanctuary if one is available to take them. It happens all the time. Please be careful.
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