Have you thought about leaving the food in an enriching, but non-contact manner? You could try wrapping the food in edible packaging and burying it in a diggable area, or hanging the food so that foxes have to problem solve to get it. Just some ideas.
great video mate, the only negative thing i would say is, when u feed foxes they can become quite trust worthy and could aproach other humans thinking they can get food, some people out there might take advantage of this and be cruel to the animal,
@predatort2000 true bastards abuse cats dogs anything cos of their own past problems or curent mental health problems ..or even chinesse eat them or take their fur alive god will sort them out their time will come
@kezzfam whats the difference between eatting cat and eating any other meat? man does what he must to eat, and cats there are abundant. i'm not saying i'd eat a cat, but who are we to judge what others eat. (look at how cows milk is obtained - and the laws of the limit of blood and puss in the milk)
It has been about 5 years since this video was posted. It is great to know that people like you take the time to understand the unbalanced world between the made environment and the natural environment. Animals such as Lilly wouldn't live too long, as you've mentioned, without decent food and depending only on earthworms. I hope Lilly is still alive and well, and visiting often : )
Vaccinate the damned thing with a .22 rimfire, Despite not throwing food into my dustbins, they are still being pulled over by urban foxes despite the lids being weighted down and my back yard strewn with the contents. I dont doubt the "Bill Oddie" naturewatch factor encourages people to feed these pests but Pauline Koupparis wouldnt agree with you and the fox attack on her children is not an aberation in fox behaviour, large urban fox population and limited food instills aggresive behaviour.
It's amazing how people will turn an incredibly cute video about a fox into a forum on gun control. And for your info if someone wants to kill another person they will find a way guns or not.
Nice vid! I m also living in the woods and I would like to know how you can be so familiar with them. I tried to bark and to feed them but it wont works.
Yeah look at those dangereous scary foxes - as some would have us believe. Nice to see soneone getting to know them and interacting, I sadly wouldn't do that around my way, too many idiots with guns for them to let them get to trust humans.
you can't compare that. first of all, more than half of those are suicides, secondly a lot of those are criminals being shot.
if you compare the overall murder rates between the US and most of Europe, the US is still higher, but then you take "white only" and all of a sudden the picture evens out considerably.
whites in the US are no more violent than in most of Europe.
which tells me the problem is not guns, but the number of criminals
@KTDFox well obviously but alot of people get killed by normal people who have guns in there home for example someones robbing your TV so they think get the gun shoot them bad shoot fuck now there a murderer over a TV.
A good thing to do would be to put a rabies vacination in his (the foxes) food just in case, if another animal bites him you won't have to worry about him being put down. Up in Alaska, i'd say a good 50% of the foxes have rabies. It might be more/less.
This beauty of this video almost brought a tear to my eyes. You remind me so much of myself; respectful to nature and willing to aid with a helping hand when an opportunity presents itself. Trust builds an amazing bond between man and wild animals. Thank you for sharing this precious video! Can't help but smile, watching it. :)
I give you credit for reaching out to this beautiful animal, but I wouldn't classify him as friendly. He is clearly cautious but his hunger overcomes his fear. What you actually may be doing in the long run is removing his fear of the greatest predator on earth. Lets hope he doesn't run into someone less compassionate than yourself.
Congratulations my friend! if all humans had the same care you for a splendid wild animal, our world would be better! Regards, Marcio Christ. Sao Paulo - Brazil
All Foxes are from the Vulpes family, not Canis like dogs, right? Lilly's shy movements are exactly like my dog's around strangers! They seem so similiar.
@Wolfenion you could dislike this because hes taming a wild fox, making it asociate humans with food, thus becoming a pest, not necessarily to him but to other individuals...
@Ryan150000 i agree with your comment. as much as i like animals, i have learned that you better stay away from realy wild animals - and if they show up, you scare them away on purpose. this makes sure, that he does stay away from humans, which is the only way of staying alive.
@twin1010101010 Actually I was probably wrong. baboons keep pet dogs but rather than give them food and entice them to join their pack they just kidnap puppies and raise them. Most likely our ancestors did the same thing and only later started to breed them
This must confuse a fox, since when dogs, cats or foxes trust an animal they turn away from them, looking directly at them is a sign that they are threatened or being threatening. Basically, if you want to try this, they best thing to do would be not to look directly at the foxes face
Even urban foxes will hunt. Hunting is probably much easier since urban prey animals gather at trash cans and tend to be dumb. No regular predators means no wariness. Any smart urban fox should have no problems with the easy pickings. Humans feeding them is just room service ; )
She's a beauty! Her tameness might be passed on to any offspring, like the domesticated foxes they bred in Russia. If after a few generations you start seeing foxes with spots and/or floppy ears, you'll know.
While it is a cool video, in the end its bad for the fox because its going to be trusting of humans and there are those who would want to see a fox dead even though its such a cool animal.
@690169 yeah, I was thinking the same thing......that fox starts thinking it's ok to just waltz up to humans might be a dangerous thing. Someone is going to freak out and shoot him
I remember one time at the local church there was a fox and 3 little cubs living in the drainage pipes under the play ground. The Youth group would place little water dishes just inside the playground's fence and sometimes someone would leave a little dish of peanut butter or something as well. Far as we know they all made it and are off doing some mischievous fox stuff ^^
Several years ago, I had a family of foxes living in my shed. A mother, father, and about five kits. Adorable little things. I wasn't allowed to feed them, though. My parents wanted them to go away, not stay, since there were little kids in the area. But they were really awesome looking. :)
This makes me wish I could still do my job at Sparkwell wildlife center. I used to help rear the most beautiful lil cub we called Brambles (was found abandoned and sick in a bramble bush, we nursed her back to health)
This would seriously be like a dream come true for me. I love foxes. I see them a lot when I'm driving to my girlfriend's house up in the burbs. We saw one last night actually. I called to it, "Hey Fox." It turned its head and trotted away. But to be this close to one would be incredible. If you have a pet cat, though, you'd better be careful. That fox would gobble your cat up, no doubt about it.
I remember when I was in kindergarten I was lucky enough to be in a classroom next to where 2 foxes lived together (school ground too) and we always looked out the window to see what they were doing. No one ever got hurt by them and sometimes we fed them.
Someone once mentioned we are the only creatures on earth to give food willingly to other species of animal and not their own kin. The more I think about it, the more I find it true.
@yingmcjensen I thought they were silver because they're a different variety of fox in Russia. There's a whole documentary about the studies of fear and how animals faces look different when they aren't fearful or aggressive all the time.
A group of scientists are breeding friendly foxes to study genetics, aggression and fear. They also think that since foxes are smart they would make good pets.
@rumamok i regard to your comment. There is a new theory that dogs "domesticated themselves". They quickly learned that where ever humans were there was usually food.....a carcas left from a hunt they could gnaw on. They most likely stayed in the distance following humans....waiting for them to leave the remains of a hunted animal. Eventually they came closer and closer till they were virtually living in the camps with humans. Thus the love affair between man and dog started....pretty cool, huh?
1) I love that you took the time to feed her by hand, instead of just putting a bowl of food out. This way she knows where the actual food is coming from =]
2) I love her name! So cute ^-^ And I think it suits her well.
3) I love your garden! So lush and alive! :D It's obvious you have a love for nature!
4) The description is long and explains everything =]
IF U R AGAINST BEFRIENDING WILD ANIMALS FOR FEAR IT DESENSITIZES THEM FROM THEIR NATURAL BEING, THE PLEEEEZ WATCH THIS VID OF "CHRISTIAN, THE LION." IT'LL MAKE U CRY! THE VIDEO IS POSTED AS A VIDEO RESPONSE!
@n4mel3ss remeber cats arernt to much smaller than a fox, pidegons fly, and mice are hunted by just about all small preadators, so it isnt suprisng that they would have a hard time hunting in an urban area
To anyone not living in the UK, seeing a fox her in england isnt a big deal, you see them all the time, especially when im walking back from town. I live near nottingham city center, and at about 2-3 in the morning there everywere, skulking around bins and looking for food. There not dangerous, they normally just run off when they see you. You can temp in the frisky ones with food tho, one of my mates fell asleep when drunk, and woke up to find a fox trying to get the mars bar out of his pocket.
i absolutely love your beautiful friendly fox. your obviously an animal lover like i am. foxes are quite rare where i live. i have only seen a mother and her pups once. i think they are called pups,lol. it would be so cool to get so close to one and feed it.
aw, I've another reason to be jealous of those in the UK, in the US our local scavengers (raccoons) are just as cute but we can't get near them, they have rabies. We can't prevent it like you can, country's far too big.
How do u attract this fox 1 comes into my back garden every couple of days because we leave meat out for it how could i like make it come to us how did u get it to could u please Inbox me some details or something
How do u attract this fox 1 comes into my back garden every couple of days because we leave meat out for it how could i like make it come to us how did u get it to
@chrisdeli7158 about a hundred different reasons, anywhere from the most petty, to the most understandable. Which range of the Answer Bracket would u like to hear one from?
Widershins: Fox,s you don,t look for fox,s you set up a blind and call them in taking care of wind direction and land scape, It is best to call them out into the open this will work best in winter when they are the most hungry and have to have food to maintain body temperature. The sound or an injured rabbit or puppies will bring them in. No they don,t want to make friends with the puppies, this is the real world. Sorry sweat hearts cant make it sweet.
I hate the stories that are going about on foxes attacking people and kids, I also like to feed foxes by hand........... please check out my video clip ( John feeding foxes in braehead ).
I hate the stories that are going about on foxes attacking people and kids, I also like to feed foxes by hand........... please check out my video clip ( John feeding foxes in braehead ).
I hate the stories that are going about on foxes attacking people and kids, I also like to feed foxes by hand........... please check out my video clip ( John feeding foxes in braehead )
Technically you can't remove the instincts of a wild animal unless you domesticate it... That is to say, you breed the things to be docile. I'm sure even urban foxes could be placed in a natural habitat and manage to mate with the locals and get by. It's the point at which they lose the ability to do that on their own because of their environment we haven't really figured out yet. So far as anyone's aware, it's not really possible. Certain things are hardwired, it seems.
The problem with feeding wild animals isn't that it removes their instinct to hunt. It's that it teaches them to associate humans and food, so they're encouraged to enter back yards and be more trusting of people. That's fine when you enjoy it, but what happens the next time that animal tries to go into your neighbours yard and gets hurt by someone that doesn't want it there, or there are children, etc.
@cmdrbluegill I think you must be peculiarly well placed for foxes, then. I have lived in areas all over the continental US - the East Coast, the West Coast, the South, the Southwest, the Midwest, and the Northern Plains. And, as I mentioned above, have only seen foxes once. I think your experience is rather the exception than the norm. Perhaps I'll try to put central MA on my next travel itinerary. I would love to see more of them. You are a very fortunate man. Take care.
urbanfox urbanfox can you see the urbanfox? (thats the urbanfox song)
BboyFiZiX 1 day ago
Have you thought about leaving the food in an enriching, but non-contact manner? You could try wrapping the food in edible packaging and burying it in a diggable area, or hanging the food so that foxes have to problem solve to get it. Just some ideas.
jema2609 1 day ago
awwwwwwwwwwwww cute foxx :D
MrDumbnugget 2 days ago
please bring us some sound next time and she is a clever one thx for sharing :)
spundrugyzone11111 4 days ago
awww
kezzfam 4 days ago
great video mate, the only negative thing i would say is, when u feed foxes they can become quite trust worthy and could aproach other humans thinking they can get food, some people out there might take advantage of this and be cruel to the animal,
predatort2000 1 week ago 2
@predatort2000 true bastards abuse cats dogs anything cos of their own past problems or curent mental health problems ..or even chinesse eat them or take their fur alive god will sort them out their time will come
kezzfam 4 days ago
@kezzfam whats the difference between eatting cat and eating any other meat? man does what he must to eat, and cats there are abundant. i'm not saying i'd eat a cat, but who are we to judge what others eat. (look at how cows milk is obtained - and the laws of the limit of blood and puss in the milk)
UKMonkey 2 days ago
absolutely gorgeous animal
hyenapeptic 1 week ago
wow, that's wonderful :)
LaurieLoves 3 weeks ago
woops, i meant between the man made environment and the natural environment.
CyberTimeWithIris 3 weeks ago
It has been about 5 years since this video was posted. It is great to know that people like you take the time to understand the unbalanced world between the made environment and the natural environment. Animals such as Lilly wouldn't live too long, as you've mentioned, without decent food and depending only on earthworms. I hope Lilly is still alive and well, and visiting often : )
CyberTimeWithIris 3 weeks ago
Animals come to us as teachers. Perhaps you can look under fox totem
to find out what common qualities you have. You must be very special to have
such a visitor. :) Thanks for posting.
inannarising1 3 weeks ago
Nelson in real life cool
cyberdragonessmaster 3 weeks ago
Vaccinate the damned thing with a .22 rimfire, Despite not throwing food into my dustbins, they are still being pulled over by urban foxes despite the lids being weighted down and my back yard strewn with the contents. I dont doubt the "Bill Oddie" naturewatch factor encourages people to feed these pests but Pauline Koupparis wouldnt agree with you and the fox attack on her children is not an aberation in fox behaviour, large urban fox population and limited food instills aggresive behaviour.
gordongate 3 weeks ago
It's amazing how people will turn an incredibly cute video about a fox into a forum on gun control. And for your info if someone wants to kill another person they will find a way guns or not.
Misskitty513 1 month ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
It's only being friendly 'cos you're giving it food.
Otherwise it would be trying to maul your children.
I am not a fox fan.
terratrema 1 month ago
what an amazing video thank-you for posting this :)
covmiss1 1 month ago
Its pretty nice to see that some folk still love wild life... ^_^
lThellRockl 1 month ago 3
near the end it looks like the fox has stored the food in its mouth ? maybe to take back to babies
prezer15 1 month ago
Awww that's nice :)
MissBiguk 1 month ago
silly people, how do you think we got dogs? by ignoring wolves and leaving them in their "natural habitat"? lol
KpMissPanda 1 month ago
cool garden, cool fox
Kukident1 1 month ago
Nice vid! I m also living in the woods and I would like to know how you can be so familiar with them. I tried to bark and to feed them but it wont works.
Grtz from a huge fox fan.
VermN5 1 month ago
awh, it's so cute.(:
Tenshi618 2 months ago
Yeah look at those dangereous scary foxes - as some would have us believe. Nice to see soneone getting to know them and interacting, I sadly wouldn't do that around my way, too many idiots with guns for them to let them get to trust humans.
gilwatling 2 months ago
@gilwatling British people aren't allowed to have guns like they are in the US as far as I know.
KTDFox 1 month ago
@KTDFox thats correct guns are bad
prezer15 1 month ago
@prezer15 Reality check: It's not the guns that are bad, it's the criminals. You have no idea what you are talking about.
KTDFox 1 month ago
@KTDFox sure, thats why there more than 30,000 gun deaths in the US each year and around 200 annually here. Sure, gun are a REAL good idea.
soupdragon151 1 month ago
@soupdragon151
you can't compare that. first of all, more than half of those are suicides, secondly a lot of those are criminals being shot.
if you compare the overall murder rates between the US and most of Europe, the US is still higher, but then you take "white only" and all of a sudden the picture evens out considerably.
whites in the US are no more violent than in most of Europe.
which tells me the problem is not guns, but the number of criminals
Kuner1 1 month ago
@Kuner1 you're wrong and also a racist
fyadcorp 4 weeks ago
@KTDFox well obviously but alot of people get killed by normal people who have guns in there home for example someones robbing your TV so they think get the gun shoot them bad shoot fuck now there a murderer over a TV.
prezer15 1 month ago
I want a pet fox
velvetcat 2 months ago
I always hear these fuckers at night lol. Sounds awful.
steveOo0o 2 months ago
It's called the natural world
gilwatling 2 months ago
@gilwatling Shut up kid :/
steveOo0o 2 months ago
thats so cool :)
SnakeJake23 2 months ago
Fun facts, fox are not canines they are related to feline family.
deadreck024 2 months ago
@deadreck024 wrong, wrong and wrong. They are in the family Canidae, which also includes dogs. No cats involved.
AllenArt64 2 months ago
@deadreck024 bullshit m8 get ur facts strait
liambradden 2 months ago
srah palin makes a show of killing wolfs foxes and deer... god i hate her
fr0zenhound 2 months ago
You have a friend for life now!....Cute!
rojoy2 2 months ago
I never seen FOX like this before ...sooo cute ,lQQks like dog
would nice to get close so can pets and hug him
Bk94541 3 months ago
A good thing to do would be to put a rabies vacination in his (the foxes) food just in case, if another animal bites him you won't have to worry about him being put down. Up in Alaska, i'd say a good 50% of the foxes have rabies. It might be more/less.
SakaSandora 3 months ago 4
@SakaSandora we do not have rabies in Britain
billygeorge230845 3 months ago 54
@billygeorge230845
Um, sorry. I was thinking of Alaska where most wild foxes have rabies.
SakaSandora 3 months ago
@billygeorge230845 dont we i thougth sweden was the only place that doesnt have it
mrliampep5i 2 months ago
@billygeorge230845 not true but it isn't common "yet"
ElectronicPleasure 3 weeks ago
@billygeorge230845 and even if you did, I don't think there's such a thing as an oral rabies vaccination!
medexamtoolsdotcom 3 weeks ago
@billygeorge230845
If Fox is actively eating it is not ill
drbor2 2 days ago
@SakaSandora
Thats what I would worry about is Rabies.
xena414 1 month ago
This beauty of this video almost brought a tear to my eyes. You remind me so much of myself; respectful to nature and willing to aid with a helping hand when an opportunity presents itself. Trust builds an amazing bond between man and wild animals. Thank you for sharing this precious video! Can't help but smile, watching it. :)
MogilnysOtherWife 3 months ago
You're a kind person.
Trajian51 3 months ago
2:18 megatron peeks over the fence *------*
junkheadrev 3 months ago
And now he has 17 different diseases :D
TheOnlyBlueStopSign 3 months ago
sooooooooooo cute
Bk94541 3 months ago
Chaos... Reigns...
666wolverine 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
congrats, you now have rabies.
ilovegoatsecks 3 months ago
I give you credit for reaching out to this beautiful animal, but I wouldn't classify him as friendly. He is clearly cautious but his hunger overcomes his fear. What you actually may be doing in the long run is removing his fear of the greatest predator on earth. Lets hope he doesn't run into someone less compassionate than yourself.
Rich13canada 3 months ago 3
Congratulations my friend! if all humans had the same care you for a splendid wild animal, our world would be better! Regards, Marcio Christ. Sao Paulo - Brazil
marciochristo75 3 months ago
this is sweet but he will think every one will do this and may get hurt from some one why dose not know
ericgrant 3 months ago
thumbs up if youre watching this in 2011
FreshScooter54 3 months ago
All Foxes are from the Vulpes family, not Canis like dogs, right? Lilly's shy movements are exactly like my dog's around strangers! They seem so similiar.
Kazenokakera 3 months ago
@Kazenokakera dogs, wolves, foxes, etc. are all from the family canidae.
blue4tucorazon 3 months ago
@blue4tucorazon Sorry, I meant genus. They are different (genera?)
Kazenokakera 3 months ago
This was very "Dances With Wolves" of you :)
randycramerart 4 months ago
@randycramerart yeah was thinking that myself
ivangrozny27 4 months ago
This is great. You are a very lucky man. Do they call you the Fox Man in your local area? They should. You are very kind.
BritRider27 4 months ago
that fox needs a bath
MOONyMAN24 4 months ago
I feed a fox at work raw chicken gizzards, she loves 'em.
cfpa1 4 months ago
What are you feeding her?
Brightfur10 4 months ago
bill gates?
cardshark722 4 months ago
How can you dislike this??
Wolfenion 5 months ago 21
@Wolfenion you could dislike this because hes taming a wild fox, making it asociate humans with food, thus becoming a pest, not necessarily to him but to other individuals...
Ryan150000 2 months ago
@Ryan150000 i agree with your comment. as much as i like animals, i have learned that you better stay away from realy wild animals - and if they show up, you scare them away on purpose. this makes sure, that he does stay away from humans, which is the only way of staying alive.
Nudelsalatbomber 1 month ago
@twin1010101010 Actually I was probably wrong. baboons keep pet dogs but rather than give them food and entice them to join their pack they just kidnap puppies and raise them. Most likely our ancestors did the same thing and only later started to breed them
rumamok 5 months ago
This must confuse a fox, since when dogs, cats or foxes trust an animal they turn away from them, looking directly at them is a sign that they are threatened or being threatening. Basically, if you want to try this, they best thing to do would be not to look directly at the foxes face
tool2342 5 months ago
Even urban foxes will hunt. Hunting is probably much easier since urban prey animals gather at trash cans and tend to be dumb. No regular predators means no wariness. Any smart urban fox should have no problems with the easy pickings. Humans feeding them is just room service ; )
She's a beauty! Her tameness might be passed on to any offspring, like the domesticated foxes they bred in Russia. If after a few generations you start seeing foxes with spots and/or floppy ears, you'll know.
Martiangrl86 5 months ago 3
In alot of websites it said that Urban foxes can be fed human food and they all survive that way
Maylilyx 5 months ago
I'm glad that she's still a bit wary, it's best to keep it that way until humans can stop being such idiots.
Beautiful video :-)
pineapplepenumbra 5 months ago
While it is a cool video, in the end its bad for the fox because its going to be trusting of humans and there are those who would want to see a fox dead even though its such a cool animal.
svtcontour 5 months ago
@svtcontour Yeah, you make a good point. It isn't good for wild animals to lose their fear of people.
OriginalPinkbird 4 months ago
stop feeding wild animals <.<
PriusRider 5 months ago
@PriusRider Yeah, 'cause a small fox is totally gonna' murder a full grown man.
Skittywolf 4 months ago
That is cool but it's going to trust the wrong person BAAAAANG off with it's head !!
690169 5 months ago
@690169 yeah, I was thinking the same thing......that fox starts thinking it's ok to just waltz up to humans might be a dangerous thing. Someone is going to freak out and shoot him
inkey2 5 months ago
Just make sure he doesn't go anywhere near those gay clubs or he'll go off his tiny face and he'll end of on the streets begging for cheese.
birdablaze 6 months ago
Yep, Dances with Wolves...Only the 'two socks' are on the back feet.
Cool video!
DrazaKhan 6 months ago
we have raccoon, opossums, and stray cats. Oh and rats/ pigeons.
NYhippie543 6 months ago
foxes are pretty smart....theyre very cautious
The808Prophet 6 months ago
Hi, what sort of food did you leave out? I wnt to try and tame the fox living in my garden.
fergalbyrne 6 months ago
@fergalbyrne Meat or fish
PSNmrclean 6 months ago
It's a good thing that's not Vince.
briangriffin1066 6 months ago
@briangriffin1066 Your comment needs more thumbs up! Too bad this goes over many of our (American) heads...Lol.
OriginalPinkbird 4 months ago
I remember one time at the local church there was a fox and 3 little cubs living in the drainage pipes under the play ground. The Youth group would place little water dishes just inside the playground's fence and sometimes someone would leave a little dish of peanut butter or something as well. Far as we know they all made it and are off doing some mischievous fox stuff ^^
Kage6415 6 months ago 4
@Kage6415
Several years ago, I had a family of foxes living in my shed. A mother, father, and about five kits. Adorable little things. I wasn't allowed to feed them, though. My parents wanted them to go away, not stay, since there were little kids in the area. But they were really awesome looking. :)
monny287 5 months ago
very nice
Ptolemeii 7 months ago
cool, i didn't know bill gates had a fox
jesuswascommunist 7 months ago 65
@jesuswascommunist my thoughts exactly LOL
doori5952 6 months ago
great video. thanks for taking care of the fox!
jerseyproduce2011 7 months ago
I wish I could feed the foxes at the bottom of the neighbours garden...this is a cool video
TheMaryshelley 7 months ago
that so cool
MyLOLhamsters 7 months ago
This makes me wish I could still do my job at Sparkwell wildlife center. I used to help rear the most beautiful lil cub we called Brambles (was found abandoned and sick in a bramble bush, we nursed her back to health)
NeonFlash 7 months ago
yay!
FurrtherMoor 7 months ago
COOL
ThePc31 8 months ago
Beautiful!
cassidymav 8 months ago
This would seriously be like a dream come true for me. I love foxes. I see them a lot when I'm driving to my girlfriend's house up in the burbs. We saw one last night actually. I called to it, "Hey Fox." It turned its head and trotted away. But to be this close to one would be incredible. If you have a pet cat, though, you'd better be careful. That fox would gobble your cat up, no doubt about it.
MckyMseNTarotCrds 8 months ago 3
very good video description
kaishaku72 8 months ago
Amazing, i´m from south spain, and not the first time i give fried chicken to wild fox, they all wild animals are great creatures.
jilg74 8 months ago
I remember when I was in kindergarten I was lucky enough to be in a classroom next to where 2 foxes lived together (school ground too) and we always looked out the window to see what they were doing. No one ever got hurt by them and sometimes we fed them.
dxjrules5 8 months ago
Someone once mentioned we are the only creatures on earth to give food willingly to other species of animal and not their own kin. The more I think about it, the more I find it true.
IanTC12 8 months ago 2
Dances with Foxes.
greyfoxau 8 months ago
This is probably exactly how the domestication of dogs started
rumamok 9 months ago 131
@rumamok yeah, we havent domisticated an animal in ages lets do foxes
moralreef 8 months ago 4
@moralreef They actually have in russia. the interesting part is the more domesticated they become the more they look like dogs.
rumamok 5 months ago
@rumamok and they turned silver
yingmcjensen 5 months ago
@yingmcjensen I thought they were silver because they're a different variety of fox in Russia. There's a whole documentary about the studies of fear and how animals faces look different when they aren't fearful or aggressive all the time.
A group of scientists are breeding friendly foxes to study genetics, aggression and fear. They also think that since foxes are smart they would make good pets.
OriginalPinkbird 4 months ago
@rumamok thats is how it started but it started with wolves!!!!
FinWolf100 7 months ago
@rumamok it started with foxes wolves and coyotes
SoldierOfShadowSOS 6 months ago
@rumamok i regard to your comment. There is a new theory that dogs "domesticated themselves". They quickly learned that where ever humans were there was usually food.....a carcas left from a hunt they could gnaw on. They most likely stayed in the distance following humans....waiting for them to leave the remains of a hunted animal. Eventually they came closer and closer till they were virtually living in the camps with humans. Thus the love affair between man and dog started....pretty cool, huh?
inkey2 5 months ago
@rumamok yeah bill gates domesticated them all by hand ... this is how we have dogs today...
TheTreeLobotomist 3 months ago
She's so cute! I love the way she prances and occasionally does a nervous crouch for an instant when you move and surprise her. :-)
peacefuljeffrey 9 months ago
I love four things about this video:
1) I love that you took the time to feed her by hand, instead of just putting a bowl of food out. This way she knows where the actual food is coming from =]
2) I love her name! So cute ^-^ And I think it suits her well.
3) I love your garden! So lush and alive! :D It's obvious you have a love for nature!
4) The description is long and explains everything =]
Meagan1415 9 months ago 2
I love foxes!.. well there really isn't an animal that I don't love... hehehe =)
RCasto 10 months ago
dude r u? just kinding! by the way the fox is sooo cute i love foxes!!!
GJSophie 10 months ago
Is this fox still around ! I hope so !
ikinmoore 10 months ago
I wish I had him.
binturong1000 10 months ago
can fox's hve a relationship with their owner like dogs?
lDolLlL 10 months ago
@lDolLlL even better actually but they are very expensive and a lot of responsibility.
DeathNoteFann 10 months ago
dude where did you get that fox
mustaing3 10 months ago
dude whwer did you get that fox
mustaing3 10 months ago
First time I ever heard of/thought of a fox for a pet! Very cool.
3511able 11 months ago
okay then. Let that Fox near your 2 year old kids unattended - and see how fuckin friendly the fox is then !
bboychance 11 months ago
I thank you for being her friend and not trying to capture her.
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riversampson 11 months ago
What an amazing video. You must truly love animals. Thank you for being so kind to this little girl.
lmbarak 1 year ago 101
I live in UK, I get to see foxes early morning and evening, they are fun..harmless and poor haha
rachusis 1 year ago
So the foxes have nothing to hunt? Not even pigeons, mice, cats and other urban animals?
n4mel3ss 1 year ago
@n4mel3ss remeber cats arernt to much smaller than a fox, pidegons fly, and mice are hunted by just about all small preadators, so it isnt suprisng that they would have a hard time hunting in an urban area
vikingdrizzit 1 year ago
Billy george, put down your copy of lentilist's monthly and get in the real world. My neighbours feed foxes and they have become a total pain.
How would you feel if your neighbours started feeding rats because they thought they were cute?
bolian100 1 year ago
@bolian100 technically if you have rats visiting your home you are already feeding them indirectly.
HannahVampire 1 year ago
@HannahVampire no i dont have rats visiting my home, i take it your young because you missed the point i was making.
bolian100 1 year ago
@bolian100 no I got your point. Rats would become a bit of a nusance if you encouraged to return just like foxes. I was just making a joke. :)
HannahVampire 1 year ago
@HannahVampire ohh, ok cool
bolian100 1 year ago
To anyone not living in the UK, seeing a fox her in england isnt a big deal, you see them all the time, especially when im walking back from town. I live near nottingham city center, and at about 2-3 in the morning there everywere, skulking around bins and looking for food. There not dangerous, they normally just run off when they see you. You can temp in the frisky ones with food tho, one of my mates fell asleep when drunk, and woke up to find a fox trying to get the mars bar out of his pocket.
cyclemen 1 year ago
I think you've interacted with wildlife before. I noticed how you know when to look away and not make too much eye contact.
I really enjoyed the video.
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AJTwister97 1 year ago
I use to do the same.... with kids..
SwampY2705 1 year ago 2
dnt feed it u idiot
Linzspat92 1 year ago
i absolutely love your beautiful friendly fox. your obviously an animal lover like i am. foxes are quite rare where i live. i have only seen a mother and her pups once. i think they are called pups,lol. it would be so cool to get so close to one and feed it.
missjessicaC 1 year ago
@missjessicaC I think young foxes are called Kits(?) . But, don't hold me down to that.
Kittywhiskers1000 1 year ago
aw, I've another reason to be jealous of those in the UK, in the US our local scavengers (raccoons) are just as cute but we can't get near them, they have rabies. We can't prevent it like you can, country's far too big.
Craxblorg 1 year ago
what are you feeding it?
moonwalker190 1 year ago
How do u attract this fox 1 comes into my back garden every couple of days because we leave meat out for it how could i like make it come to us how did u get it to could u please Inbox me some details or something
MultiCasio123 1 year ago
How do u attract this fox 1 comes into my back garden every couple of days because we leave meat out for it how could i like make it come to us how did u get it to
MultiCasio123 1 year ago
wtf would anyone thumbs down this video
chrisdeli7158 1 year ago
@chrisdeli7158 about a hundred different reasons, anywhere from the most petty, to the most understandable. Which range of the Answer Bracket would u like to hear one from?
Zetro200 1 year ago
Wonderful video. Nicely set up and your yard is just beautiful! I can just see a fox running threw the grass...
amadaria 1 year ago
Widershins: Fox,s you don,t look for fox,s you set up a blind and call them in taking care of wind direction and land scape, It is best to call them out into the open this will work best in winter when they are the most hungry and have to have food to maintain body temperature. The sound or an injured rabbit or puppies will bring them in. No they don,t want to make friends with the puppies, this is the real world. Sorry sweat hearts cant make it sweet.
widershins 1 year ago
so cute! i would've fed it too.
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johnozzy2 1 year ago
Cute Fox but dude you got a sweet garden.
rockoutdudepro 1 year ago
Technically you can't remove the instincts of a wild animal unless you domesticate it... That is to say, you breed the things to be docile. I'm sure even urban foxes could be placed in a natural habitat and manage to mate with the locals and get by. It's the point at which they lose the ability to do that on their own because of their environment we haven't really figured out yet. So far as anyone's aware, it's not really possible. Certain things are hardwired, it seems.
knightofhope111 1 year ago
The problem with feeding wild animals isn't that it removes their instinct to hunt. It's that it teaches them to associate humans and food, so they're encouraged to enter back yards and be more trusting of people. That's fine when you enjoy it, but what happens the next time that animal tries to go into your neighbours yard and gets hurt by someone that doesn't want it there, or there are children, etc.
Apathyist 1 year ago
@cmdrbluegill I think you must be peculiarly well placed for foxes, then. I have lived in areas all over the continental US - the East Coast, the West Coast, the South, the Southwest, the Midwest, and the Northern Plains. And, as I mentioned above, have only seen foxes once. I think your experience is rather the exception than the norm. Perhaps I'll try to put central MA on my next travel itinerary. I would love to see more of them. You are a very fortunate man. Take care.
LunarMovements 1 year ago
I love your backyard!
divemasterme88 1 year ago
@divemasterme88 i was thinking the same thing, mines a mess :(
savagewreckhead 1 year ago