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ShiftyBagLady said:
Anyway, shall I start keeping my cat in at night? He got very badly injured in a fight a few months ago and has made a full recovery but I wouldn't like him to get hurt again. Are cats and foxes likely to fight?
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quite unlikely according to Stephen Harris author of this.

Some figures from his book from a survey of foxes in Brizzle:

  • 5480 households surveyed
  • 5191 responses
  • 1225 cats in the area
  • only 8 cats had been killed by foxes
  • 20 fox families in the area - approx 47 adult and 96 cubs
  • = 0.17 cats killed per fox per year at most
  • on average 100 cat ranges per fox range

conclusion:

Although foxes will kill cats, obviously this is comparatively rare and even where foxes are very numerous, it is much more likely that a cat will be run over by a car then be killed by a fox.

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...most fox/cat encounters are usually characterised by the two animals either ignoring each other or showing wary caution
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:cool:
 
We used to have a lot of urban foxes in Bristol until they were all killed off by mange. There was one I used to see when I walked home late at night and it was so tame it would eat chocolate from our hands. :cool:

I think they are coming back now.
 
Geri said:
We used to have a lot of urban foxes in Bristol until they were all killed off by mange. There was one I used to see when I walked home late at night and it was so tame it would eat chocolate from our hands. :cool:

I think they are coming back now.
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apparently that happens on a regular cycle. (it's in Stephen Harris's book)
 
teuchter said:
A little while back I was sat in our living room watching the telly and turned round and there was a fox staring at me a bit like in the picture above. He had quite calmly walked in the back door, through the kitchen and along a corridor. He scarpered pretty quickly once he realised he'd been spotted though.

They have stolen a shoe from one of my housemates in the past.
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Same here. Turned round and the fucker scarpered, but it was pretty much fearless for years. It would sit there, licking its balls under the tree directly outside our back bedroom window - tapping the window would merit a small glance up before more genital slurping. Occasionally I'd come out and half-heartedly throw whatever was to hand towards it, causing it to reluctantly and slowly walk off. Chupsty Brixton foxes I guess. Probably on crack or summat.
:hmm:

Did the shoe thing to us too. Was whining at the other half for hiding one of each of my pairs of work shoes, before discovering two discarded leather shoes at the back of the garden. Fucker was probably tap dancing in my mismatched moccasins.
 
tarannau said:
Same here. Turned round and the fucker scarpered, but it was pretty much fearless for years. It would sit there, licking its balls under the tree directly outside our back bedroom window - tapping the window would merit a small glance up before more genital slurping. Occasionally I'd come out and half-heartedly throw whatever was to hand towards it, causing it to reluctantly and slowly walk off. Chupsty Brixton foxes I guess. Probably on crack or summat.
:hmm:

Did the shoe thing to us too. Was whining at the other half for hiding one of each of my pairs of work shoes, before discovering two discarded leather shoes at the back of the garden. Fucker was probably tap dancing in my mismatched moccasins.
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vulpine gonads :cool:
 
I live next door to a school in hackney and theres loads of foxes living there
they're screeching at the moment

i used to worry about my three cats but they and the foxes seem to co-exist in a bored kind of a way

there's often a fox sitting in the gateway to the block that saunters off when i bring my bike in

when my daughter was tiny we had a book about tracking animals and she used to get v excited about the idea of spotting fox poo :confused: and now we have it all the time outside the door...
 
Miss-Shelf said:
i used to worry about my three cats but they and the foxes seem to co-exist in a bored kind of a way
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I don't think you need to worry about your cats. A cat will box a fox's ears without any trouble at all. A fox might get a kitten or a very old cat: other than that, it's not anywhere near a fair fight.
 
5t3IIa said:
I've also seen the most scraggiest fox ever trotting across Upper Street N1 at about 8pm. It's tail was stumpy and fucked and I could only tell it was a fox cus it wasn't a dog or a cat, iyswim :D Poor thing. They get mange, you know, and get driven mad by the itching:(
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you can get free mange treatment (homeopathic, but seems to work) from the National Fox Welfare Society
 
madzone said:
City life obviously suits them - they don't look that good round here :D
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Nor here. I fished one out from behind the sluice at work t'other week.

All the ones I see duly get reported to the 'keeper. Cant have them worrying my chickens (or hanging about for the hunt to find).
 
Blimey, they're a common sight in Leeds after dark, so I'd imagine they would be in any other city.
Maybe we need a poll
 
foxy was there when i turned in with my bike tonight

fox and my cat sitting quite contentedly (apparently) 5 metres from each other

fox sauntered off when I turned up
 
I see foxes some time out my window.
I never have my camera ready, and the little buggers seem to know when to come out, just at that stage in dawn/dusk when it's not quite so easy to spot one.
I've seen deer out my window too, but that's a rarity.

Both foxes and deer are sublime beautiful creatures.
 
They were all over the fucking shop when we lived in Wimbledon - you could barely walk down the street at night without seeing one. I've known people to be really paranoid about them and cats, but never actually known anything to happen. Our cat was fine, but then she is very nervous, and would always run away - maybe they're more worrying if your cat is a scrapper.
 
Cloo said:
They were all over the fucking shop when we lived in Wimbledon - you could barely walk down the street at night without seeing one. I've known people to be really paranoid about them and cats, but never actually known anything to happen. Our cat was fine, but then she is very nervous, and would always run away - maybe they're more worrying if your cat is a scrapper.
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I was concerned because it's my first cat, he's just about one and enjoys a good scrap.
Actually, the chances are he's encountered them before and it's just another one of those things I had never considered.
Consensus seems to be that they live in harmony, phew.
 
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