Side effect of hunting ban...

I'm in the same boat as orangehorse, but I believe people have said on HHO that urban foxes are being caught and dumped in the country and they would be very likely to be very tame. Could yours be some of those?
 
These are urban foxes, but I've never seen foxes this tame in the wild before - and we used to feed a family of foxes when I was a child!!!!

They were still shy enough to run away if we were too loud!

I've seen tamer foxes in wildlife centres, they watch you like hawks if they're tame, kinda like a cat might but less arrogant.

I just couldn't believe that having run up the garden shouting, the fox followed me back to the house when I went to get help!!
 
My relatives in London have fox problem, and the Council trap them and release them in the countryside. Hate foxes, but think that's pretty cruel - bit like cold turkey with a dearth of yummy dustbins to go through. But the countryside roxes are getting tamer too. We had one in our back lobby/tackroom a few weeks ago. It ate the cat food, peed on everything, and I just saw it's back view as it went out through the cat flap, with our dogs in hysterics behind it - and no it wasn't a cat!
 
I'm in East Germany and foxhunting has been banned for a loooooong time, but the Berlin foxes are considerably less nonchalant and tame than the London ones. I saw my second (in five years) Berliner "Fuchs" at midnight last night. Big dog fox, trotted down the pavement, stared at me from a distance when I stared at it, and then headed into the tiny park by the Wasserturm.
The other fox I saw was either a baby or a vixen. Poked its head out of the Jewish cemetery late one night, saw me and thought better of it. Of course, the bins here are all inside the yards of appartment houses, and not out on the street, so it's hard for the foxes to get at them. I'd imagine that they live off the local rabbit and marten population instead. The martens like to live off peoples' brake cables :o
The London foxes didn't care about cars or people if they had some nice bins to rummage. You used to see them sunning themselves by the railway line. I got woken by the cats in the middle of the night once, and the next morning I opened the front door to the STINK of fox. Cats obviously thought I should know!
 
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