Urban Foxes Go to the Country

 

This is a sad tale.

Locally, someone dumped several foxes that they had caught in a town on a farmer's field near here. They thought they were helping the animals.

But they weren't.

Urban foxes raid litter and rubbish bins and generally don't know how to hunt. They are just scavengers.

Here in the country, there is very little litter and all of our rubbish is securely stored in wheelie-bins. Even if we wait two weeks for it to be collected, there is no smell and certainly nothing for the foxes to scavenge.

So these poor urban foxes were reduced to begging as the farmer worked his fields and were grateful, if he threw part of his lunch from the tractor.

In the end they starved to death.