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.
The Fox Flower
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.
Foxes are cat software running on dog hardware.
Best of both worlds!
White Wolf good
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!
I was thinking the same thing. If you love them, don't feed them or try to get close to them.
Unfortunately, life of animals is not "so cute".
Kimberly Kasper ?
Sara Rehnmark?
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.
Which is kind of surprising because, unlike their red cousins, greys tend to be very shy. (Interesting fact: Grey foxes tend to prefer sleeping in trees.)
GFSTaylor, I live in SW Georgia, in the US and we have both greys and reds here. I will say that the Red Fox is rarer than the grey and a little bit larger. I have seen both in the wild when hunting on the my dad's family farm in the south end of Decatur County.
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Foxes are cat software running on dog hardware.
Best of both worlds!
White Wolf good
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!
I was thinking the same thing. If you love them, don't feed them or try to get close to them.
Unfortunately, life of animals is not "so cute".
Kimberly Kasper ?
Sara Rehnmark?
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.
Which is kind of surprising because, unlike their red cousins, greys tend to be very shy. (Interesting fact: Grey foxes tend to prefer sleeping in trees.)
GFSTaylor, I live in SW Georgia, in the US and we have both greys and reds here. I will say that the Red Fox is rarer than the grey and a little bit larger. I have seen both in the wild when hunting on the my dad's family farm in the south end of Decatur County.
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