I have a little fox

As someone who has done wildlife rescue and rehabilitation for many years, I’d personally advise you not to interact with it or feed it. I know you have the best of intentions, but you run the risk of making it dependent on you if you do, as well as habituating it to humans. You will know that it is merely used to you, but someone else in your area might think it’s fearless behavior equates to rabies and shoot first.

If you are worried about it being orphaned, you might contact your local department of natural resources or something similar and try to contact a qualified wildlife rehabber for advise. Your local vets probably have numbers on hand too. Most vets are not trained to deal with wildlife, even exotic vets, but they will have usually have contacts who can. The kit might very well be old enough to do fine without assistance. They are often not large as adults, and it might be older than you think. A rehabilitator would be a better resource than the hunt club.

Here is a list of contacts:

http://wildliferehabber.com/modules/xoopsmembers/index.php

Good luck!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I mainly want to get him wormed and then I guess just leave him be.
I hope he comes back a couple times. I need a better look to see about his weight.

Will these do?

They were over 100 yardsaway, so not the best

http://picasaweb.google.com/carolp3231/20100516#

Cute. Mine has a light coat color. I need to get a better look at him. Notice, I keep saying him because I don’t want it to be a female.

This is a good point, especially depending on where you are. If you’re not that far north of me (I’m right at the NC/SC line, on the coast) - we’ve already had a fox bite a woman here. Fox later tested positive for rabies.:frowning:

Not saying yours is rabid, of course. Just saying that folks around here are going to be trigger happy around foxes for a while.

And some folks shoot them on sight, anyway. To stuff them, for chrissakes, and decorate the hunt club with them (read: deer, bird or hog hunting). Or because they eat chickens.

ETA: Nevermind. I just clicked on your webpage and saw you’re in Winston. In more enlightened territory than my own. :sigh: :wink:

PRS, I would rather have the fox than the bobcat anyday.

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Me too. At least I knew the fox wasn’t likely to want to tangle with one of my dogs. I heard a commotion from the chickens early one morning (just barely getting light) when I went out to check why the chickens were squawking I was looking up into the tree because the night before I saw an owl or hawk in the tree…when I noticed my border collie staring intently at something behind me I turned around and THAT’s when I saw the Bobcat not 50 feet from me! He started running to the hedge row with my BC hot on his tail. I was so scared that she would actually catch him! She broke off pursuit as soon as he went under the fence…thank God. Scary, scary, scary.

Please be careful and know that it is ILLEGAL to take in wildlife! I ran the rabies program in Vermont for ten years!

I had a lady call me once with a young friendly fox sitting on her lap! When I tested it (as it had exposed 5 people) it was POSITIVE for rabies! All had to be treated. If you run a business, they will also make sure your animals are all vaccinated. If they are not, and exposed, they will be euthanized.

Leave the Wild in Wildlife! You condem any wild animal by making it “people” friendly!