Baby fox...

Leave the cub alone. As the vixon tends to move them seperatley & wont place them all down in the same spot. She will know where it is.
 
we have 3 dogs and a cat and live right by a main road..... i rang the local wildlife centre and they told me to bring it into them....
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Another one bites the dust...such a shame kindess kills. Still it probably would of ended up run over anyway.
 
Oh, thats a hard one to call.

I had a gull chick that was a few weeks old but had fell off a rooftop and was walking up and down the pavement next to a dual carriageway. I called the SSPCA and they, as expected, said to leave it where it was. I found it squashed on the road a cpl days later :-(

Don't worry they will look after him and release him when he's big. They will probably have other foxes there too.

Also most wildlife centres have a policy of releasing foxes in areas where there is no hunting (or reduced hunting) so you can rest assured he won't have to worry about that later in life.
 
Oh, thats a hard one to call.

I had a gull chick that was a few weeks old but had fell off a rooftop and was walking up and down the pavement next to a dual carriageway. I called the SSPCA and they, as expected, said to leave it where it was. I found it squashed on the road a cpl days later :-(

Usually they are better left alone, it's your call. Good luck!
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Aww :-(
 
he was so cute, i do hope i did the right thing..... only reason i knew he was there was the cat walked past a garden bush funny so i looked under bush and there he was!
this all happened last sunday - i just wondered what others may have done in the same position.
i will contact centre to see how he's getting on i think....
 
Don't worry too much, he'll be ok.

Cubs don't have a great survival rate and many die or are predated before they reach adulthood. At least you will know he'll be released as a healthy young thing ready to face the world later in the year.
 
Don't worry too much, he'll be ok.

Cubs don't have a great survival rate and many die or are predated before they reach adulthood. At least you will know he'll be released as a healthy young thing ready to face the world later in the year.
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Only to be released and run over by a car... Call me cynical!
 
You are cynical!!

They usually release them in nice areas of countryside but they can have problems establishing territory in areas of high densities. Depends on the sex really, a male will find it tough being released somewhere alien.
 
SM....hows your fox trap gonig? We caught our daylighit killer, but not in the trap, the lurcher held him at bay until he was shot. He was in very poor condition, emaciated and with no teeth.
 
SM....hows your fox trap gonig? We caught our daylighit killer, but not in the trap, the lurcher held him at bay until he was shot. He was in very poor condition, emaciated and with no teeth.
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Didn't catch anything but there was a roadkill on the left handside of one of our fields so I presume that was the culprit. Trap is shut up for obvious reasons (time of year) and I daren't touch it because the chicken stinks!!!!

Glad you caught the culprit...safe chooks now then!
 
Personally I think it is the worst thing you could of done.
I have watched vixens moving their cubs & they will move them one at a time placing 1 under 1 bush, then going & getting another cub placing that under a different bush & so one with the whole litter till she has got them to where she wants & is certain they are safe.
Personaly I think you have inadvertantly knocked it on the head as growing up at the centre he is not going to grow up wild & when they dump it (sorry realese it) it wont have a clue of how to survive.
Leave nature to it's own devices. It knows best.

Just to let you know I am not having a personal dig at you & we can only learn through practice/mistakes ;)
 
Personally I think it is the worst thing you could of done.
I have watched vixens moving their cubs & they will move them one at a time placing 1 under 1 bush, then going & getting another cub placing that under a different bush & so one with the whole litter till she has got them to where she wants & is certain they are safe.
Personaly I think you have inadvertantly knocked it on the head as growing up at the centre he is not going to grow up wild & when they dump it (sorry realese it) it wont have a clue of how to survive.
Leave nature to it's own devices. It knows best.

Just to let you know I am not having a personal dig at you & we can only learn through practice/mistakes ;)
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Totally agree! Problem with foxes brought up in a center is they also aren't streetwise...
 
Totally agree! Problem with foxes brought up in a center is they also aren't streetwise...
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Totally agree. The same can be said for the foxes the A/R idiots round up and or collect from urban/city locations and dump out in the countyside.

They do make good target practice though. ;)
 
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