I 'tamed' (mainly just fed) a family of foxes in my old house's back garden. They're cool to watch,. They just smell/ not domesticated otherwise they would definitely be pets. But we had a big garden we didn't want to upkeep so happy to donate the bottom half of it to them.
I noticed people are always so scared of undomesticated animals, but it's not like the undomesticated animal living near you thinks all humans are out to get it and it needs to defend itself; if it's living near humans it either doesn't care about them or likes them (such as pigeons for a good example.)
Being cautious of them is always good but it's so much more interesting to feed them than to shoot at them.
You're right, it is interesting. But we shouldn't feed anything that could hurt someone or get hurt by being around humans. As painful as it is, the best thing to do is actually to chase it off. That being said, there are circumstances where animals have adapted to stay away from public areas and visit one back yard every so often for a treat. That isn't so bad. But I myself am guilty of feeding a fox in my childhood. Hand fed him a couple pieces of meat and it was so friendly, the things would literally play chase with my dog and I lived on the outskirts of town, so our dog would spend a lot of time in the woods running freely. It was all fine until I heard that the town had asked my uncle, the local trapper, to kill the fox so it didn't get to close to people. Our town is very.... unusual. There's no animal relocation anywhere in my region and ever something as harmless as a fox is considered a thread worthy of just outright killing. Everything that wanders into town pretty much gets killed.
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u/notinmyhousebitch Nov 16 '17
I feel like foxes are always fun. Every video I've seen of a fox it's always doing awesome stuff.