Wild Fox Keeps Visiting Her Favorite Person

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[Fla Dem]

1. Foxes are beautiful wild animals. I'm glad she hasn't tried to make a pet out of her.

Although it's wonderful the connection they have made,

[procon]

2. She's putting the fox at risk.

Wild foxes who become desensitised to humans are killed by people who fear its unusual behavior might be a sign of illness or rabies. Humans can spread common canine disease like parvo through contact spread by shoes, clothing and human hands. Tempting them to venture into human habitation opens the fox to dog attacks and the dangers of crossing roads with speeding traffic.

I generally like The Dodo's videos, but they should not encourage people to interact with wild creatures.

[2naSalit]

9. It's called habituation

and it is a danger to wildlife for the reasons mentioned. At least she isn't feeding or trying to make her more habituated than she is. There are lots of people who do feed the foxes and it's a nightmare for the species.

[cyclonefence]

3. A lovely video, but

foxes are among the animals--including humans--who can be "thrill killers"; that is, they kill far more prey than they eat, seemingly for the pleasure of killing. If this woman has other animals in her back yard, they are in danger. A flock of geese were killed, every one, by marauding foxes in my next-door-neighbor's yard a few years ago, and I will never forget the screams or the sight of the (uneaten) corpses the next day. Foxes are beautiful but very, very dangerous animals.

[mbusby]

4. Weasels....

...are far worse at killing everything that moves. A biologist jokingly said that if a weasel was the size of a large dog, there were be no other animals left on earth.

[progressoid]

6. Yes.

It's likely that cute fox is snacking on some of the animals she feeds in her back yard.

[Duppers]

7. Raccoons kill fowl just for their eggs!!

https://animals.mom.me/deter-raccoons-chickens-7305.html

We had a friendly little fox who took nightly walks we us and our 2 big dogs. Our fox didn't bother the neighborhood cats. But I'd be upset too if our fox killed local our local ducks and geese. Luckily the cutie hasn't.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. How wonderful.

[trueblue2007]

8. Foxie is so pretty