Daft Fox Question?

[Smowball]

With all the news recently about foxes coming into peoples houses, and only yesterday a few miles from me a fox attacked a 4 week old baby in their house and bit the baby's finger off - well my son just asked me if a fox could get through our cat flap? I said no, but could it??

[hc4361]

Probably.

[EcclesCake]

A small vixen probably could.

[boxtops]

Yes, if it wanted to - next door's small dog can get through a large cat-flap.

[Smowball]

Ohhhhh. We had a fox right up against out patio doors just staring in late one night, and thats right by the cat flap.

[Sparkles62]

I would think so. Can you lock it? it might be a good idea at night. x

[EcclesCake]

A colleague walked into his office to find a fox trying to get into his lunch box one day. We were more careful about leaving the doors open to the building after that :-(

[boxtops]

If there is food left in the cat's bowl overnight, it could be tempting it....

[Iluvspikey]

quite easily. they are not much bigger than cats females are smaller than males

[Smowball]

Yes I can lock it, it would just mean that if the cats went out then they couldnt get back in.

[seadogg]

I think there must be a difference between urban foxes and others. We live very near a wood and though there are plenty of foxes they steer clear of houses.

[mrs.chappie]

I wouldn't be surprised if it could.

I was putting out a large tin of dog food for one of our hedgehogs every night. I knew she couldn't be the only one eating it so I had a camera rigged up inside the pen.

I was amazed to see a right big cat squeeze into the very small opening. It managed to manouvre the baffle entrance to the hedgehog box with no problems. I wouldn't have believed it possible, had I not seen it for myself.

[islasmum]

Urban foxes are definitely bolder .......we used to live in Sutton, Surrey on the edge of suburbia, and we had several cases where a fox was chased out of the garden at any time of day or night by the dogs, one even got onto the 1st floor flat roof where the cats got in through the window and came up to the window and sat looking in. Fortunately the two cats came in at night, but I used to work at night and several times had to drive round a big dog fox that used to sit in the middle of the road and watch people go past. So I'm not surprised that this incident happened in Bromley.

[Smowball]

I often hear a loud sort of howling sound and when I look out of my bedroom window I can see 3 foxes on the grass opposite.

[Mick-Talbot]

Too right they are getting bolder..... http://i47.tinypic.com/a32ivb.png

[Smowball]

Lol Mick.

[RATTER15]

Yes it is very possible for a fox to get through a cat flap but also it is extremely unlikely to do so.

[Chipchopper]

Fox's are pretty smart and highly motivated by food, I'm sure they could easily enter through a cat flap, if they get a whiff of something tempting to eat
They are definitely becoming more brazen, especially in cities that are becoming increasingly crowded.
The entrance to a fox earth under my shed is only a few inches across, just as big as it needs to be.
One answer, may be to fit an electronic pass tag to the cat's collar which is in sync with the flap

[rowanwitch]

such a fuss over urban foxes..... compared to the number of bites from dogs its probably statistically insignificant

[RATTER15]

I totally agree rowan.

[rowanwitch]

and a fox can do a lot less damage than a rottie or a mastiff that's in attack mode....