Do Anybody Feed Wild Foxes In Their Gardens?

[HoneyKats]

Is it right to feed foxes in gardens? Has anybody have neighbours who feed foxes in their gardens upsetting other neighbours and leaving disgusting messes also encouraging Vermin!!!

[Gusssss]

"Don't be a prat - these are rare and unusual incidents."

Tell that to the parents.

[Gusssss]

"I suggest Gussss that you have a massive chip on your shoulder."

Mystifying.

[gness]

Gusssss...Two things.....Firstly..my love of wildlife has never found me cuddling a fox....they are not cuddly or cute.....a fox is a beautiful wild animal.
Secondly...I am prepared to listen to your argument against the feeding of foxes in gardens if you can do it calmly without getting so personal when another has a differing viewpoint. Otherwise you are weakening your position. x

[Gusssss]

Well I am calm, even when somebody was calling me a prat for no apparent reason and suggesting I might be a fascist.

But never mind.

Have you, or Zeuhl, read the RSPCA advice about feeding foxes?

[lady-janine]

feeding wild foxes? yes they are always digging up things looking for earthworms and the like

[craft1948]

Bring back fox hunting I say :-)

[gness]

Gusssss...my experience of the RSPCA leaves me reluctant to read or follow any of their advice. x

[Baldric]

Do you mean to say they've stopped Fox hunting?

[Gusssss]

Zeuhl: "they have co existed peacefully with our dog and cats, use our rear garden for peaceful sunbathing and now trust us enough to take food at very close quarters"

and

"That particular fox has spent most of the Spring leaving the garden with mouthfuls of food ",

particularly goes against RSPCA advice that you shouldn't try to make them tame, or give them too much food.

[craft1948]

Well they have in my neck of the woods baldric, although I understand the Bramham hunt (nearby) does still meet.

[humbersloop]

well it's against the law balders, whether or not it's actually stopped it in some places is moot..

...i]tugs forelock at the recently ennobled sir[i]

[Gusssss]

"Gusssss...my experience of the RSPCA leaves me reluctant to read or follow any of their advice."

And yet you claim to love wildlife.

Everybody always claims to know better than those with genuine expertise.

[humbersloop]

^^ oops, awe makes italics go funny

[gness]

Gusssss....explain how not being a supporter of the RSPCA contradicts my love of wildlife please. x

[Gusssss]

You didn't just say you weren't a supporter, you said you wouldn't follow their advice.

Explain where your superior expertise comes from, and please don't just say from personal experience of feeding foxes.

[seadogg]

When I posed a very similar question ages ago I was dumped on. Nice to be a bystander. Our terrier decided we don't need foxes in the garden but have to confess feeding them in the wild wood nearby when they have young. No hens or anything else they can harm where they are. The b.... deer poachers, lampers and badger diggers are the vermin round here.

[gness]

You are doing it again...I have nowhere claimed to have superior expertise.. if I did feed foxes in a garden how would that give me superior expertise so why would I say that?
My lack of respect for the RSPCA has nothing to do with foxes.......but it is not the organisation I go to when I need information regarding animals or birds.

[ELVIS68]

Ive lived in the sticks for 7 years and only seen 2 foxes in that time, whereas when I'm working on the railway track in London I'll see dozens of them every night, plus a few half foxes not quick enough to dodge a train

[Gusssss]

Apologies, perhaps it's the ISPCA?

[ladybirder]

Probably not seeing them ELVIS because the farmers won't tolerate them.