Do Foxes kill cats?

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Jen-Star

A neighbour of mine found his cat dead in his back garden this morning..... apparently it wasnt a pretty sight. There are loads of foxes around here at night and he's saying thats what he rekons it was.

I got to thinking about it after thinking it was quite unbelievable and thought about wheely bins all being contained and thought if a fox was hungry enough it might kill a cat to eat

Dont think i'll be letting the pooch out too late at night for a while.

What do you all think?

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LGSMember

Yes they do Jen, we actually caught a fox doing just that in our garden and th OH chased it off, unfortunately we were too late, OH buried it in our garden up the back and the bugger came and dug it back up

OH found it a few days later when going to his shed

12/18/0911:50 AM

Garage JoeMember

http://www.thefoxwebsite.org/u...foxes/urbandiet.html

Scroll down........
Our vet reckoned that our cat had been attacked by one.

12/18/0911:50 AM

Jen-StarMember VIP10 yearsModerator

Some interesting stuff there crossy, seems hes right then, i cant think of anything else that would maul a cat in back garden like that.

12/18/0911:56 AM

Former Member

a fox ate my sister's rabbit

12/18/0912:02 PM

DemantoidMember

They can, but it's not that common. Foxes are usually more scared of the cat, than vice versa. There was some great night vision footage of encounters between foxes and cats on Autumnwatch. The fox always legged it!

12/18/0912:06 PM

Blue Diamond (Ben's Buddy 11)Member

I didn't know that

my two cats are always fighting with the fox who comes dinning at the rubbish area. How do I get rid of the fox?

12/18/0912:10 PM

DemantoidMember

Tighter lid on the bin?

12/18/0912:14 PM

duchessMember

If its a strong dominant male it will kill a cat, especially in the winter where food is scarce and if there is a lot of foxes about, the more dominant male will attack. Was any part of the cat eaten? If not it was more likely to be a dog kill.

Are there any Badgers about, it could possibly be a Badger kill.

12/18/0912:19 PM

Blue Diamond (Ben's Buddy 11)Member

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Tighter lid on the bin?

It's a funny arrangement round here, the silly neighbours leave flimsy black bags out in the open.

And, the fox always manages to rip open the one with the dirty nappies in it.

12/18/0912:23 PM

Jen-StarMember VIP10 yearsModerator

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Are there any Badgers about, it could possibly be a Badger kill.

Not sure about badger. By the sounds of the mess the cat was left in i think it was eaten

12/18/0912:30 PM

duchessMember

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Jenstar online 766 Forum Posts Today at 8:30 (Edited: ) Reference: Are there any Badgers about, it could possibly be a Badger kill. Not sure about badger. By the sounds of the mess the cat was left in i think it was eaten

It does sound like a fox then, one that was disturbed because usually they eat then bury whats left for later

12/18/0912:33 PM

Jen-StarMember VIP10 yearsModerator

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usually they eat then bury whats left

Well the man had changed the cat flap to go out only as he's been having a nasty cat that hissed at him coming in, so his cat must have gone out in the night and not been able to get back in. He told me this this morning and worried a fox might have got her. then later he said he'd found the body..... I thought it was weird that he had assumed it was a fox as i thought it was a random thing to think after not seeing the cat before the school run (not long enough to worry imo) and then it turning up dead.

If it were me the thing id worry about first would be the cold

12/18/0912:39 PM

duchessMember

this is

I would worry about the cold too. The poor thing not being able to get back in!!

If you live in a built up area it is more likely to be a dog attack imo He should've closed the cat flap up and kept it in at night esp in this weather

12/18/0912:57 PM

LGSMember

duchess I live in a built up area and have foxes in my garden day and night, they bloody sunbathe at the top of my garden

and sit there watching me hang my washing out

12/18/091:03 PM

TrollopMember

Ive nearly killed a few pussies in my time....I say nearly....I just end up with a big vets bill cos they never quite die

12/18/091:03 PM

Jen-StarMember VIP10 yearsModerator

Yeah its pretty build up but there are a few big feilds over the back and loads of foxes around I've seen plenty

12/18/091:08 PM

Jen-StarMember VIP10 yearsModerator

Lol Trollop you a fox now then?

12/18/091:09 PM

BojanglesMember

There are a lot of foxes in the copse at the back of my house.One killed a cat last year about 2am the cries were bloodcurdling.Now when I let my dog into the garden at night I make sure the ouside light is on,as he is not much bigger than a large cat probably resembling a lamb with long hair.Not that the fox will worry,but my dog is old and deaf so would be easy prey.
I fear if a mother put's her baby outside in the summer in their pram,they also could be easy prey.It is a disaster waiting to happen as Foxes are now on the increase and moving into towns looking for food.

12/18/091:37 PM

Crunchy NutsMember

I think a fox could kill most cats, but I swear I seen my neighbours big male cat (it's big) kicking the crap out of a fox one night, like really chasing it and the fox was scared!!

12/18/092:17 PM

Crunchy NutsMember

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Whilst we would not suggest that foxes will never kill cats what we can say is there has never been a reported case of this happening. Usually foxes and cats have a mutual respect for one another. The time of year when calls peak are usually around March / April / May. People will view a fox chasing a cat and wrongfully assume that the fox is looking to kill the cat to feed her cubs. What is happening however that whilst cubs are still very young and underground cats will show a very unhealthy interest in them. If the cat was to get to the young cubs it would kill them. A vixen looking after her cubs will chase cats away from the earth. Calls again then peak usually around July where householders are claiming that a pack of foxes is going around terrorising cats. Since foxes do not hunt in packs we can assume its a family of cubs learning their way around their territory. On discovering a cat they tease the cat, in the countryside the badger is usually the one that the foxes will tease, one would never believe that the young cubs were looking to kill the badger! Once the cubs have met with the ferocity of a cat they learn quickly to avoid them. If a fox finds a dead cat on the road it will take it away to eat. Any person observing this will assume that the fox has killed the cat. We have observed on many occasions foxes carrying marrow bones, never do we conclude the fox has killed the cow! If more than one fox is present when this cat has been discovered, and since foxes are so selfish with their food, an argument over who's it is will commence. Remembering on many occasions that the police have been called out thinking someone's being attacked and killed because the foxes are so vocal, it is easy to assume that the foxes are killing the cat since that's what it sounds like.

12/18/092:22 PM

AimeeMember

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LGS 3860 Forum PostsToday at 21:03 (Edited: ) duchess I live in a built up area and have foxes in my garden day and night, they bloody sunbathe at the top of my garden and sit there watching me hang my washing out

same here

i hate the bloody things

my neighbours both sides put food out for them every night and i've got a stray cat that lives at the bottom of my garden

even the squirels chase him

12/18/093:26 PM

Yellow RoseMember

Where we used to live for many years, I had 3 cats and foxes at the bottom of the garden permamently for years with cubs every year as well. In all those years the foxes never troubled any of our cats, they'd often be in the garden at the same time just a few feet from each other. I also never heard of any of the neighbours cats being attacked.

Whether it made a difference or not I don't know but I fed them every day of the year so they never went hungry. They also allowed me to get get quite close to them and their cubs, which I thought was a privilege as they're very shy creatures and usually run from anything that scares them. I thought they were lovely animals, they played with their cubs and watched over them just like any other parent, animal or human watch over their young. I'm not denying they never kill any animals like chickens and rabbits etc, and maybe they do/have killed cats, maybe it's all about survival and maybe I was just lucky all those years.

12/18/094:28 PM

MargueritaMember

I have got foxes were I live I have never heard of any stories like that but I suppose it does happen, it is all about survival cats kill birds and rabbits and other small animals and they are our pets and we feed them, not wild like foxes who have to hunt for food..

12/18/094:36 PM

Karma_Member

Bloody foxes. A couple of weeks ago they decided to have a row right outside my front door at 4am. They are so NOISY

12/18/095:07 PM

SaintMember 10 years

They eat mints

12/18/095:44 PM

Former Member

12/19/095:19 AM

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