Foxes are known for being friendly and curious, and nothing highlights it better than all of the visits they pay people at their homes.
That's right, these beautiful, nosy creatures keep finding ways into our kitchens, bedrooms... and I understand if you think I'm making it up. It sounds sketchy. Luckily, people who are surprised by these animals often take photos of them before asking them to leave.
Bored Panda collected these pictures to show that nobody is safe from these uninvited -- yet absolutely adorable -- guests, so don't panic if it happens to you as well. Instead, get the camera!
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As you can see from the images, foxes have made a success of living with people. It's not due to their mythical cunning, but rather their ability to adapt to changing conditions; foxes are found in cities throughout Europe and North America. In fact, many Brits know more about urban foxes than their rural counterparts.
Urban foxes have such a wide diet, it's amazing they aren't suffering from diarrhea 24/7 -- they eat earthworms, insects, fruit and vegetables and a wide variety of both domestic wild birds and mammals. Most of the birds they eat are feral pigeons and small garden birds, and the most frequently eaten mammals are usually field voles, abundant in allotments, railway lines, and other grassy areas.
So if you want to, you definitely can feed a fox that comes to your home. Lots of people do, both regularly and occasionally. You can give them virtually anything, really. Being carnivores, they love cooked or raw meat and tinned pet food.
They won't become dependent on you but if you feed them heavily and regularly, they can become over-confident and less wary of people. This could encourage them to approach strangers for food, a behavior that shouldn't be encouraged. So it's best not to put out large amounts of food every night.
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A Fox. Behind My Bookcase. An Actual Fox. A Library Fox. At 4am. An Actual Bloody Bona Fide Library Fox. What A Night It’s Been
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One Wandered In To Our House Yesterday And Ate My Headphones
You are what you eat, and he's a bit wiry ;-) ...
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That baby looks hungry. Please leave some food and water out for it every night.
I agree. That would be the decent thing to do. After all, humans have taken so much of their habitat and so many of their natural food sources away from them.
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It's clearly starving. Put out some catfood for him. We're encroaching on their territory and destroying their habitats, so it's only fair.
can we please stop calling foxes babies? it's making feel uncomfortable this fox is like, a pre teen
He looks genuinely remorseful that it wasn't actually edible. Poor thing must be starving.
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A bit of cat food outside the back door will stop that... He's starving.
That’s worse than what my cats have done. Once they make it into a 2nd string, they’re done.
Becoming Buddies With A Fox That Wandered Into Our House
A Little Visitor
I scream at the baby foxes, raccoons and coyotes when they come close. I love them and I want them to live. They need to fear people. A bear was just euthanized in my area because as a cub, people thought she was cute. They fed her to get photos with her. Well she grew up and gets too close to people because they feed her. She was shot and killed by authorities because she was scary. Y'all she walked right up to the people who shot her. ALL because people thought it was cute to feed her and just let her walk around. Scare them off!!!
More proof that humans are the real plague on this planet!
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I can guess all this took place in UK :D Coz the first wildlife I saw there was a fox casually passing me by on the pavement like it's non of my business. Not even looked at me :DDDD
Some are in America. You can tell by the use of 'deck' and 'yard', The fox in 18 is a grey fox, which is native to America, rather than a red fox.
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I believe in protecting and preserving wildlife... if that means feeding them away from my home, I'm okay with that. I would not encourage any wild critter to enter my house- for their welfare and that of my two cats. I will admire them from afar.
The trophy hunters do not believe in protecting and preserving wildlife; we have to do what is the best way for animals to survive.
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Maybe foxes are on the cusp of domestication. This is how it started with wolves.
I'd be suuuper careful with wild foxes so close to humans. They can carry rabies after all and you only get that once because it kills you 100% of the time.
I saw a Fox stretched out on my lawn taking in the sunshine recently, sadly I don't have a photo.
Any animal comes to my house it gets offered food first and warmth next.
because we just assume it because we have no idea what gender they are and also because we think none of them looks girly
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I scream at the baby foxes, raccoons and coyotes when they come close. I love them and I want them to live. They need to fear people. A bear was just euthanized in my area because as a cub, people thought she was cute. They fed her to get photos with her. Well she grew up and gets too close to people because they feed her. She was shot and killed by authorities because she was scary. Y'all she walked right up to the people who shot her. ALL because people thought it was cute to feed her and just let her walk around. Scare them off!!!
More proof that humans are the real plague on this planet!
Load More Replies... I can guess all this took place in UK :D Coz the first wildlife I saw there was a fox casually passing me by on the pavement like it's non of my business. Not even looked at me :DDDD
Some are in America. You can tell by the use of 'deck' and 'yard', The fox in 18 is a grey fox, which is native to America, rather than a red fox.
Load More Replies... I believe in protecting and preserving wildlife... if that means feeding them away from my home, I'm okay with that. I would not encourage any wild critter to enter my house- for their welfare and that of my two cats. I will admire them from afar.
The trophy hunters do not believe in protecting and preserving wildlife; we have to do what is the best way for animals to survive.
Load More Replies... Maybe foxes are on the cusp of domestication. This is how it started with wolves.
I'd be suuuper careful with wild foxes so close to humans. They can carry rabies after all and you only get that once because it kills you 100% of the time.
I saw a Fox stretched out on my lawn taking in the sunshine recently, sadly I don't have a photo.
Any animal comes to my house it gets offered food first and warmth next.
because we just assume it because we have no idea what gender they are and also because we think none of them looks girly
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