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Location: South Oxfordshire, England
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I would say that the main problem is people are encouring them around homes, and encouring interaction between them, Foxes are a wild creature, and should remain that way, and if a wild animal has no fear, then it does become dangerous, but when people are feeding them, leaving out bins where Foxes can go through them, people are a food source to many if not all urban Foxes, no matter how small a part, when a wild animal not only looses its fear because its living closer to humans, and getting to know their strange behaviour and see a food source there who is to blame?
I've been around a few foxes, I've feed them, grieved for one (R.I.P Dale) I've seen some that seem to become more tame more easily then others, Tiny Tim was a fox with a genetic mututation, he has been brought up having humans provide all his food, Kimball lived with him, she too has had the same, Kimball became very tame, Tiny Tim didn't, it may of been to do with his little legs, but it may of also been in the mind, Foxes are very dog like, and like dogs have different ways about them, some are more calmer, some more flighty, the calmer ones however are the most dangerous, as they pose a possible danger to themselves and others.
What I would be concered with though is that yes Foxes are getting closer, they are getting braver, I saw a exterminator on the news this morning saying about how many times he's been called out because a Fox has gone into someone's house or garden, and mauled their dog or cat. If a Fox gets into a house and its a calmer more confident Fox I can imagine it wondering around, if you have no pets yourself, and are not wondering around, maybe the TV is on, I can easily imagine you not knowing that a Fox is in your house, if a Fox gets into a bedroom, and see's two vunerable children I can imagine it attacking them, and being a Fox, yes I can easily, easily imagine it attacking both.
But again we are too blame, I mean how many other countries would be encouring wild carnivores to come to their homes, either intentionally or unitentionally? Many would be doing all the can to stop it, but we see then as cute, fluffy woodland creatures, we enjoy seeing them, many people don't however see the teeth, see how they can become ill or injured and act different, and don't see the danger that they can posses to people.
A few things I picked up in that article that actually makes it even more a viable thing that could of happened
They would be on the prowl looking around and if there’s an open door, even a cat flap, they will walk into houses and walk round and mess on the bathroom floor and sometimes sleep on the bed if the people aren’t around.
But I see no reason why a fox would do this, unless it jumped into a cot and then found itself with squirming children underneath it and couldn’t get out through the bars or something. I don’t know, but it just doesn’t make any sense to me.
So even he is admitting that a Fox could and does get into homes, but he doesn't see how they could attack a young and vunerable child, why wouldn't they be prey for a Fox, he even says that they are opportunist feeders, what gives them more of a opputunity to feed then finding itself in a bedroom with two young babies? We are too animals, and lets face it a baby
would be easy prey to a animal.