Fox eating a cat?

Question

I was following this drunk bloke who picked up a dead cat, he put it by by the side of the road.
When he had gone a fox came along and eat it.
Problem solved, is nature wonderful? or what!

Answer 1

Yep it sure is. The wildlife need to eat to survive.:) n

Answer 2

A wild fox will kill a cat, although usually they go for prey significantly smaller than they are, and other carnivores aren't their preferred prey. If it's legal to have a fox kit where you live, or you're willing to get the necessary permits, then you still need to think about this. It's like having a husky or any other dog with a strong hunting instinct still in its nature, only turned up several notches. A fox, even one raised in a home, still has 100% of the instincts that tell it it needs to hunt to live. Even if you raise it around a cat, and you manage to get them friendly and affectionate with one another, this will NEVER be something you can trust. If the fox gets excited, even just playing, and those instincts kick in, it can kill without even meaning to. A friend of mine raised a fox and a ferret together. They'd go out and run all over the yard playing, having a great time. Once day they were being very hyper, and the fox (Jazzy) jumped after the ferret (Elmo.) Jazzy was chasing, and Elmo stopped and turned to wrestle, like they were always doing. Jazzy pounced, grabbed, shook her head, and sprang away. After a second she realized Elmo wasn't chasing her, and went back to where Elmo was laying. Then she made the most awful noise. She'd killed him, with that instinctive grab-shake, broken his neck, and she hadn't even meant to. Those behaviors are just in her blood, as a wild animal, however tame she was acting. It was our fault we let that happen, not hers. But if you decide to raise a fox around other animals, you have to remember this kind of thing is possible. It broke Jazzy's heart to lose Elmo, and I felt like a monster. She was domesticated because she was rescued from a trap and wasn't releasable, but we forget what she was, treated her like a dog, and that was an awful mistake. I'm not trying to rain on your idea, but this is the kind of thing you really, really want to think about FIRST, so if you decide to do it, you won't make those kinds of mistakes.

Answer 3

Cruel if u ask me, nature that is! i would have taken it home and put a notice in the paper that a cat had been found unfortunately dead, i wouldnt have left it there, but then again i wouldnt have been drunk, and walking along the road

Answer 4

Foxes are opportunists so yes any dead animal will be seen as an easy meal by then.

Contrary to popular belief foxes don't kill cats except for maybe really young kittens.I feed my local foxes and at 6 months old my cat was bullying them.

Answer 5

Foxes eat carrion.
Thats why they kill so many hens if they get into the henhouse. Left to it they come back making as many trips as they can, carry away the dead hens and cache them for winter.
Its a good job they do or it would be left to carrion beetles and the council to clear away dead animals.
Foxes also clear up a lot of the food waste that people chuck on the ground on a saturday night.

Answer 6

Is this in reply to the Q by Fayeboo? Although a female, she was drunk apparently and explained her situation with a dead cat similar to your story...

Answer 7

Nature is wonderful, not because fox's eat cats though!

Answer 8

Well a fox is a carnivore and, in this case, he didn't have to kill his prey...it was just lying there for the taking.
I think nature is "survival for the fittest" sort of theme.
What do you think?

Answer 9

foxs are lovely babe, it was a free meal for him/her. didnt even have to catch it. Would have thought at this time it would be a vixen ( she ) and is feeding cubs. Once saw one and I kept very still and it came up to me and smelled me all over. It was so nice.

Answer 10

Yup now you know all about the food chain!