We placed our “special dinners” out in the brush where the fox seemed to frequent. They found the two stations and would actually wait for us at night. We have a sheltie too, so that was a concern, but we just made sure that he never went down to the fields where they were.
After the first one died, we started treating the others. That was three years ago and they have all looked great since then!
Excellent news! Thanks.
I’ll pick up a package of cheap hotdogs this afternoon and swing by the feed store to pick up some liquid Ivermectin. I really want this little guy to get started on the medication now before his mange gets worse.
If I can figure out where his outside den is, I’ll put the bait there. In the meantime I have plenty of places in the stable to secret the baited food that my two Shelties - should they ever be out - could NOT find or reach the bait. (They are both comatose even as we speak - one dead asleep on my couch, head on the pillows, the other in her “cave” on her soft fluffy bed under the kitchen table with the draping tablecloth that hangs to the floor. We no longer use the table because we don’t want to disturb her special little boudoir. Spoiled much? Nawwwww!!)
I’ve also used a needle and syringe to dose eggs. They LOVE raw eggs…and that seemed to be something that neither my Dane nor my border collie are interested in…
Well, the hot dogs were cheaper than eggs - only $1/pack on sale. Can’t beat that! But I will remember the eggs - in case my hubby finds the hot dogs hidden in the fridge and they end up “disappearing” at lunchtime! 
With all the negative meddling we do with wild animals, we should do something good for them when we can.
And if some DNR or AC person is notified if you trap a wild animal and take it to the vet, call the tv stations and get a reporter out there. Most DNR rangers and AC officers will not intervene unless someone complains about you. I’ve never seen anyone prosecuted for helping a wild animal. And I have seen officials back down when the tv cameras arrive.
Just be careful handling wild animals because if they bite you, they will be beheaded and tested for rabies. The reason that authorities say that the rabies vaccine doesn’t work in wild animals is because it hasn’t been tested on and studied in wild animal populations. Not because the rabies vaccine doesn’t work in wild animals. So vaccinate if you can without you or the vet getting bitten.
Foxes are in the same family as are dogs. As long as they stay out of the chicken coop, they don’t harm horses or dogs or cats.
They eat grits and gravy also.:lol: At one barn where I briefly boarded, the dog fox started eating when a camper fed him each night. Within a few days, the fox brought the vixen and babies up to eat with him. The guy who lived in the camper had pix of all of the foxes with gravey all over their whiskers.
Every other day sounds to me like an awful lot but then it depends on what formulation you are using, possibly.
Back when I treated the resident foxes in VA, I did ivomeck .2 cc in a hot dog or chicken neck, two weeks apart. Left it in the hedgerow the foxes passed through in the fence line. Worked well.
Of course, the parasite is in the den, and tends to be cyclical, but yes, I always treated when they were looking ‘mangy.’ But on a random basis so they did not come to ‘expect’ the food in the hedgerow. The bonus of course was more mousing done in my horses’ field!
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