To leave some food out for the fox in our garden.

[MrsMotherHen]

We have a fox that frequents our garden last few occasions hes been out in the day and DH has just seen him sunbathing on the patio. We are not rural but live about 50m away from the beach front along a promenade with a park quite close.

I put out bacon, sausage rolls and left over oven chips. Everything devoured except the chips!

YY we found early on vegetables were not acceptable.

Not to upset the anti feeders but here is a hungry grateful squirrel I put bird feed out for this morning 😊

Yes we have squirrels dangling off the birdfeeders. I can't be too mad with them even though they are burying peanuts in the lawn.

the bird bath is frozen solid. i've noticed neighbours bird feeders are empty so i bought a huge bag of (proper) bird feed (as opposed to a bag of 'kp' nuts). warmed my heart to watch them in the old pecking order from magpies, pigeons, black birds, blue tits! my dd has peanut allergy but i doubt she will be going in the garden at the moment (moody 15 year old)

sparkling fwiw if you wanted to feed the foxes they LOVE a bit of cheese + (raw) eggs.....

It loved birthday cake, I got the medicine into it in birthday cake.

Sparkling I remember about the birthday cake in my mangy fox thread!

Scrap didn't have a sweet tooth but adored cheese. Russel would go mad for a stake donut.

STALE donut!

They do seem to have a sweet tooth!

It was on DS2's actual birthday so he wasn't that impressed with perfectly decent cake being sacrificed.

but what's a better on your birthday than sharing you cake with a fox?!

scrap & russel love that you named them

It’s so cold here I have fed the foxes here for the past 2 nights. But apparently they didn’t get to the food last night before it froze solid 😕

They had children, I named them too I would show pics but the foxes-eat-babies-and-kill-chicks-for-a-laugh would be up in arms!

Would you feed tigers if they came into your garden?
Never feed a tiger. They don't stop with a Sunday roast or a sarnie, they'll eat everything in your home AND drink all the water out of the taps. Seriously! I've read that loads of times

I would be overjoyed if tigers came into my garden. They could have anything hey wanted and YY all the water in the taps.

Yeah foxes aren't at all dangerous

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/children/11216320/Toddler-rushed-to-hospital-in-fox-attack.html

www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/feb/09/fox-bites-baby-finger

www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/fox-sneaks-house-bites-seven-1213378

Sorry if this has already been posted.

They are a wild animal and feeding them isn't helpful, IMHO.

Plus food left out could attract rats etc as others say.

I think most of what you posted has already been posted Italiangreyhound.

Posted, commented on, discussed....

Just brought donuts and a spare loaf with honey. Our lovely guests will feast well tonight.

And daddies beer remember!!!

Surely giving foxes sugar is an absolutely shit idea?

They aren't supposed to have it all the time but they can and do have it- as I said they are scavengers so will consume most things. If you're trying to get medicine in them, which I and Sparkling have done, jam sandwiches or donuts or cake are a great idea because cats won't tend to eat what is meant for foxes. TBH in this harsh weather I'll give the foxes anything high calorie that they'll eat. The birds are getting cake too.

High calories are good but they haven't evolved eating refined sugar. I would have thought it would be terrible for them and rot their teeth but I'm no expert.

Sadly most urban foxes don't live long enough for bad teeth to become a problem.