FRIENDLY URBAN FOX

[@billygeorge230845]

Thanks, I never expected to get this close. I started to feed her regularly and one day she came up to me and asked for more

[@margaretedwards3882]

Well done for caring for your local fox! Wildlife needs all the help it can get from us!

[@rickcruz3382]

That's something you will remember for the rest of your life Great video !

[@mts554]

I wish one day to have a garden and be able to feed them. We forget that we are taking their homes by building housing so we all should contribute to their existence too.

[@kateterure]

That's so lovely. I have never seen a live fox. They are beautiful. Good on you for looking after it.

[@marknauman53]

Feeding them keeps them healthy and out of trash cans thus reducing the chance of disease and unwanted encounter with pets and children. They're actually quite intelligent and social. They've been relying on me as a food source for many years and boy are they healthy!!! Never one single problem with them!

[@Benn61]

+Mark Nauman some foxes get shot. they are not healthy :(

[@stevepayne5965]

benn61 Certainly not after they've been shot.

[@RG-hf4et]

And what happens when you move?

[@CajunAdrienne]

Thank you for spending your money to feed them! You're a blessing for them.

[@marnickfox9891]

@@RG-hf4et then the foxes find another source, foxes have one talent that other animals doesn't have. They are able to adapt to almost every environment, most of the poeple doesn't know this. I read this in a book about foxes. Sorry for my english

[@jslasher1]

I love foxes. They have such character.

[@delirious153]

Nice video of human kindness Thank you william for sharing with us god bless you. Liked and subscribed.

[@Miss_Maggie]

This beauty of this video almost brought a tear to my eyes. You remind me so much of myself; respectful to nature and willing to aid with a helping hand when an opportunity presents itself. Trust builds an amazing bond between man and wild animals. Thank you for sharing this precious video! Can't help but smile, watching it. :)

[@markers663]

Awesome!!! You're good man. Thank you so much.

[@mamanaing1]

Lucky enough to have such kind of friend...

[@dianehuddle3003]

I would rather see this than one being ripped apart by hounds. Long live animal lovers!

[@Kim-lc3fv]

hear! hear!

[@joycetownsend7585]

Diane Huddle Totally agree with everything you say 🦊

[@garyweston1288]

I have a fox who lives in the graveyard round the corner, one of many I suspect "subletting" in the broken graves. He /she comes through the hedge back of my house and I leave scraps when I can. Lovely to see him in the small hours enjoying a meal. I wouldn't try to get too friendly as my dog doesn't like other animals. They were here before us so we should give them some space.

[@clickerhelp]

Beautiful garden and what a wonderful life you have created for yourself and your visiting friends. The distinction of human and non-human animals is arbitrary and to make too much of it is a by-product of hubris. Feed those in need if you are fortunate enough to have extra food.

[@CyberTimeWithIris]

It has been about 5 years since this video was posted. It is great to know that people like you take the time to understand the unbalanced world between the made environment and the natural environment. Animals such as Lilly wouldn't live too long, as you've mentioned, without decent food and depending only on earthworms. I hope Lilly is still alive and well, and visiting often : )

[@Meagan1415]

I love four things about this video: 1) I love that you took the time to feed her by hand, instead of just putting a bowl of food out. This way she knows where the actual food is coming from =] 2) I love her name! So cute ^-^ And I think it suits her well. 3) I love your garden! So lush and alive! :D It's obvious you have a love for nature! 4) The description is long and explains everything =]

[@jpn_apple]

Wow! Lucky guy .. foxes are cute 😍

[@dr.awkward9075]

The fox just posted a video called Friendly Neighborhood Guy.

[@roncooper8666]

I loved that video! The fox talked about how he had trained the friendly human to hand feed him. I thought I was the only one who watched that vid! From the balcony ~ 2 thumbs waaay up!

[@rickcruz3382]

That's hilarious👍

[@marnickfox9891]

Hahaha maybe it was me😊

[@josephcarlbreil5380]

I love foxes. Come in contact with them quite often. They are very intelligent.

[@aola7]

what a beautiful video! thanks for the info about the fox as well! and you have a beautiful garden!

[@valeriabello1048]

Mark Nauman comments said everything in a few lines. Thanks for the video and the appropriate behaviour towards wild animals. They inhabit this planet a "little longer" than us, human beings, so the priority is theirs.

[@peacefuljeffrey]

She's so cute! I love the way she prances and occasionally does a nervous crouch for an instant when you move and surprise her. :-)

[@megasuggs]

Well fed urban foxes have no need to raid bins or dig up lawns for worms, I learned this when I moved to my current house, since then, like you, I have made many new friends in the fox comunity, I find it very rewarding to look out the window and see a little fox waiting for me to go out with some food, keep up the good work.

[@marknauman53]

I've been feeding my neighborhood foxes for many years. Some stay year after year while their young tend to move out of the immediate area. I've never attempted hand feeding mostly because of my dogs. They have established an unseen barrier across which none of the foxes want to cross so we remain friends at a distance.

[@TheGhostcarp]

THX FOR HELPING THE FOX

[@MRSMARTHAK]

I enjoy watching your kindness. Thanks for being you.

[@yvonnecharlton6820]

I love feeding them too X. Keep it up, kind man X

[@ajayjackson7727]

Awesome!! You're a star for feeding the fox 👌 i feed a family of foxes where i stay, i leave meat, chicken, big meat bones, cheese blocks and water for them.. Keep up the good work..

[@PinkPanthress]

This is kind and sweet of you!!! :) You're awesome! And thnx for sharing this Vid with us!

[@BelTam1971]

We have foxes under our shed in our backyard here in Illinois. Three pups and their parents. We've decided not to feed them as the area is bird and squirrel friendly. They all look well fed and healthy. I'm glad to see you interacting. It was so amazing to see them up close. Take care and thanks again!!!

[@sophiemcwilliams7759]

Special ♥

[@ottokar1872]

very nice to you, mister congratulations and thanks for fox

[@bign00bs]

Seriously though, that's the nicest yard I have seen in a long time.

[@albertclark113]

Foxes are just beautiful i feed foxes, i had one cub came in my bed room try to nick a soft toy , and there was my cat on the bed fast a sleep

[@suzannefronzaglio2427]

If I was a fox.......I'd come visit you're pretty yard too!!! Looks lovely & private..like the femce & looks like there's pretty flowerbeds & lanscapung! And the table for two ismakes it all what I want in a yard! Smart little fox!

[@cultfan5227]

So cute, and you have a nice garden too.

[@Mechaghostman2]

2007 KZbin, when it's this kind of content that dominated instead of a bunch of people trying to make the platform into cable with essentially on-demand TV shows.

[@WayToVibe]

Wonderful video. Nicely set up and your yard is just beautiful! I can just see a fox running threw the grass...

[@rockfloyd4630]

No audio? Lovely fox. I love the nature.

[@furygeist]

Beautiful. I can't stop smiling. It must be amazing to be able to be so close to wildlife without worrying about rabies or trying to capture and tame it. Just exist alongside one another peacefully.

[@Saverio34]

Nice fence and landscaping by the way

[@electrasong]

She's GORGEOUS!!! My partner has 4 that he is looking after currently. It started with one, he named 'R Fella' cuz he wasn't sure if it was a boy or a girl, then one day R Fella brought her two cubs to show him what he'd been feeding while she was pregnant. They are our little fox family and another young fox, probably from a previous litter of hers. We love them.

[@joannafaith888]

Sweet! 👍Keep helping the beautiful animal.🌭Cheerio!

[@CaroleBoudreau58]

You just put a smile on my face as big as the love you have for foxes...Shame on people who kills them.

[@MioRaem]

@FGP02 I think it signs your comment when I say that when i went to London last year in May I saw one in the morning straight out of our house! And I only was there for one single week. Neither shy nor aggressive, he just sat there and watched us and hackled (I guess he smelled our sandwiches.) Then after a while he went away. Without any hurry. So adorable!

[@SuperMarioZombies]

wild squirrels and birds seeem to do fine when fed so I dont see what the big deal is feeding a fox. It's not like a bear that can kill you. i can see maybe getting hit be a car but that can happen fed or not. i can see maybe a fox getting lazy and not hunting or scavenging at all because somebody is feeding it but I doubt it will die. as soon as the food source is gone they will revert back to what they were doing before.

[@MichaelGallagherSculpting]

Well done Billygeorge. i have a little fox whom i fed by hand only this evening. I call him Minty. I get him chicken each night and he is fed before me. Great wee guy and he comes into my shed whenever he is about. he sits beside me as I have a little fire on in the shed and listen to classic fm while i carve and chip granite stone. yes, i make a hell of a noise and he still comes in. he is so used to me. keep up your good work

[@Jess23May]

Wow!!! That must be an amazing experience!!! I cant believe people use to hunt these lovely creatures!

[@lindab8397]

Wow can't get more trusting than this. Privileged or what...

[@marciochristo75]

Congratulations my friend! if all humans had the same care you for a splendid wild animal, our world would be better! Regards, Marcio Christ. Sao Paulo - Brazil

[@Starsonedge]

That is pretty amazing. It's sad that they have to scavenge for food, but its also good to know that you're helping out an animal in need. I'm sure what you're feeding it will provide more nutrients alone than just them eating earth worms. You've probably improved that fox's life by a landslide. I'm sure if she could say thank you, she would.

[@XanderShadow]

This makes me wish I could still do my job at Sparkwell wildlife center. I used to help rear the most beautiful lil cub we called Brambles (was found abandoned and sick in a bramble bush, we nursed her back to health)

[@DefLepRock83]

i love foxes, i think they're so sweet, i saw one once scavenging for food on my street, its no wonder with humans destroying they're habitat, they have to come in to ours just to survive! I would love to get this close to a fox, Sweet video thanx for sharing! :-)

[@cassidymav]

Beautiful!

[@rojoy2]

You have a friend for life now!....Cute!

[@AKartes]

This is really great, I'm so glad you feed these creatures. My mom feeds raccoons which at first I didn't agree with until I found out how many die in urban areas from starvation. The woods areas near my mom's house keeps dwindling so where are they supposed to go? The fox kind of reminds me of a feral cat. If I had foxes in my backyard, I wouldn't even get pets! My life would revolve around the foxes!

[@LodemaiVicious]

I wish you weren't the only one with such noble atitude. Thank you. :)

[@divemasterme88]

I love your backyard!

[@korekoi5051]

可愛い♪

[@ImaginationExplorer]

Ah! How adorable to witness a scene like that! And though S/He's not a pet, it seems very gentle when taking the food from your fingers. Even house pets sometimes have trouble being gentle when taking food from their feeders fingers. but still, that's amazing. I wish I would have an experience like that! Foxes are amongst one of my few favorite animals. When did S/He start allowing you to feed it? By hand I mean. Even if she was jumpy towards the end.

[@LATINASTYLEx3]

sooo cute :) i wish more people are just like you , you are a good person :) sry for the bad english ..

[@FlyingFnord]

i love that things like this are caught on video. the fact that it is a fluke that it is even caught on video makes me think of all the instances where there is no medium around to record a cute little event like this one

[@dxjrules5]

I remember when I was in kindergarten I was lucky enough to be in a classroom next to where 2 foxes lived together (school ground too) and we always looked out the window to see what they were doing. No one ever got hurt by them and sometimes we fed them.

[@Kage6415]

I remember one time at the local church there was a fox and 3 little cubs living in the drainage pipes under the play ground. The Youth group would place little water dishes just inside the playground's fence and sometimes someone would leave a little dish of peanut butter or something as well. Far as we know they all made it and are off doing some mischievous fox stuff ^^

[@inannarising1]

Animals come to us as teachers. Perhaps you can look under fox totem to find out what common qualities you have. You must be very special to have such a visitor. :) Thanks for posting.

[@critch1901]

Bet its a Vixen. They are always more braver and latch on to humans easier. Anyway its a lovely little Fox struggling to survive and it has sussed out a friendly helping family. Hope she brings the cubs to you. Its the foxes mating season now so you might hear the noises sounding like babies screaming in the middle of the night. We had a really tame fox once too. Her name was just "Foxy". She use to follow behind us when we took the dogs for a walk and loved a really hot indian curry lol.

[@nupurdasgupta3881]

You know what?! Foxes have more reason to be afraid of humans!

[@peartfaldo]

everything does

[@knopfler720]

I did this exact same thing with a fox on Cape Cod. I fed it hot dogs, and boy did I make a new friend real fast.

[@adria171]

you have a nice yard

[@kovelev]

lovely garden!

[@jerseyproduce2011]

great video. thanks for taking care of the fox!

[@lThellRockl]

Its pretty nice to see that some folk still love wild life... ^_^

[@nickfox663]

We had a young fox in our backyard the other day. He had a choice of goin to eat my ferret or hanging with us. He didnt seem interested in the ferret tho. Just wanted to chill. very cute

[@pyromanic920]

it is really amazing that she takes food so nicely.

[@XirexWolf]

Thank you for sharing this video!

[@VIKING33NY]

Excellent video!! You're one good dude!

[@LunarMovements]

@cmdrbluegill I think you must be peculiarly well placed for foxes, then. I have lived in areas all over the continental US - the East Coast, the West Coast, the South, the Southwest, the Midwest, and the Northern Plains. And, as I mentioned above, have only seen foxes once. I think your experience is rather the exception than the norm. Perhaps I'll try to put central MA on my next travel itinerary. I would love to see more of them. You are a very fortunate man. Take care.

[@AzizSikdar1995]

This man is a decent fellow, too many people see foxes and get scared and scream rabies, nice one!

[@intheredcold9216]

While I would probably want to do the same, I always worry that one day their lack of fear for humans would bring the little guy into contact with someone who isn't so nice and would hurt or kill him. In this case, kindness is a double edged sword.

[@chakatBombshell]

There useually pretty smart enough to recognize people and only go for the same ones that fed them otherwise they flee.

[@angryscott]

Gorgeous animal. I am so jealous.

[@jilg74]

Amazing, i´m from south spain, and not the first time i give fried chicken to wild fox, they all wild animals are great creatures.

[@meow1964]

LOVE IT!!! She's Beautiful!! I think it's GREAT that you're helping/feeding them! Do you know what kind of fox she is? Red Fox? Swift Fox?

[@stevenking2980]

Yum!

[@albarnes5713]

Fairly certain this fox goes by the handle of Squirrelly Shirley. She probably likes french toast and blueberry muffins??

[@yosheyoshe9767]

If this isn't a blessing from above, I don't know what would be. I wish I was you, that is my dream, to move WAY out into the country and have all kinds of WILD LIFE living around me, that would be a blessing :)

[@Threetails]

One small thing, there are squirrels and rats in cities like London, especially in the parks. In some of the suburbs like Richmond, I saw rats scampering round the parks pretty often, and there were plenty of foxes too so I suspect they had a handsome pick of live prey. Most of them just ate out of the skips behind my uni, though.

[@Trajian51]

You're a kind person.

[@billygeorge230845]

The best thing to do is put food out in the evening so they get used to coming in your garden overnight. You would be extremely lucky to get one as brave as Lilly

[@billygeorge230845]

Thanks for you comment. Tell me, was education too expensive for your parents in America when you were young?

[@covmiss1]

what an amazing video thank-you for posting this :)

[@654321poiuytrewq0987]

I wish we had urban foxes in fitchburg or those super freindly urban deer they apparently have in japan

[@bigverybadtom]

You'll see them if you go out at night.

[@rickcruz3382]

bigverybadtom-- get security camera's so you can show off any critters that come by

[@csilva7837]

Inocent 😇🥰

[@stephentaylor8593]

Good man love it

[@wanker222222]

nice garden

[@SteveZackMusic]

This is amazing and great to see! :) Btw, what are you feeding her? I want a go!

[@angelanicholson951]

These poor creatures only live about 2 years in the wild, if that!

[@billygeorge230845]

Just checked on the net, as I had not heard of it, The last human death from indigenous caught rabies was in 1902.The last reported animal was in 1922. You are right, there was a death in 2002, contacted by a bat conservation worker, after handling a European species of bat. Nothing reported since. The main concern in the UK now are badgers carrying TB, and passing it on to cows. They are undecided what to do about it at the moment

[@fuuuuuuuunny]

awesome. we actually do the same thing here in surrey. we hand feed it chicken drumsticks lol :-)

[@HattieLovesCattie]

The next time Lily visit,pls film it.The guy that shot this video was nice enough to let me know that he sees Lily and her family once in awhile.

[@jeanannd]

Here in Colorado the diet of foxes in the cities is diverse - like the urban coyote. They eat mice, rats, the occasional prairie dog, the occasional baby bird fallen from the nest - and garbage from human garbage cans. In that they compete with skunks, coyotes and other animals.