Have you ever seen an actual city fox?
Posted by Flowerofthesouth88@reddit | AskUK | View on Reddit | 48 comments
I did once at a friend's house in the garden, and another while on a train, looking out the window by the bushes. I think the fox was hunting for something?
josh5676543@reddit
Yes all the time
ResplendentBear@reddit
I've seen foxes in Rochester, which has the distinction of being the only ex-City in the UK. Does that count?
Suburban foxes are just a way of life around here. Was exciting when we saw cubs in daylight once. Otherwise you just get used to the midnight screeching.
hdhxuxufxufufiffif@reddit
Rochester is the only ex-city in England. Elgin in Scotland is another town that held city status but lost it when it joined up with other boroughs to make a larger local government area.
JamOverCream@reddit
I used to see more foxes in a week in London SW16 than I have seen in 15 years living on the edge of a town, my garden backing on to fields.
LayingInBracken@reddit
I regularly find their very disgusting poos in my garden, but somehow they are hardly ever captured on the cameras that cover the entrances and exits. Maybe they parachute in and out idk.
reddiuniquefool@reddit
What part of the country do you live in? There are absolutely loads around here. (Leicester)
opitypang@reddit
I second that. I'm in Clarendon Park and they come into the garden. I've only seen one this year, but a couple of years ago there seemed to be a family of them. One spent every day that summer curled up in the middle of the lawn in the sunshine, snoozing. Bold as brass.
Mr_Bumcrest@reddit
Yes. They're not rare
nonoanddefinitelyno@reddit
Walk around at 3am.
They are everywhere.
Master_Piccolo_9178@reddit
I frequently see them in the daytime
SuperDinkle406@reddit
All the time, on the way back home late.
ARobertNotABob@reddit
Regularly. They build dens under people's garden sheds. It's easier ripping binbags and gorging our leftovers than all that hunting malarkey.
Relative-Tea3944@reddit
Is this rage bait
TheDawiWhisperer@reddit
Yeah near kings cross last year
BillPayers@reddit
Like the crack fox?
Who_Knows_M3@reddit
Hear loads at night. Seen a couple in the afternoons running down the street
NortonBurns@reddit
Fewer since we had new build out the back, but they used to be regular in our back garden. They'd sleep there during the day because it's a fairly safe space, enclosed.
There was an albino lived nearby too that I'd often see in the street, early mornings. I'm retired now so I'm rarely out early enough to see them.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
Shitloads and I don't even live in a huge place. Urban foxes really don't give much of a damn and will happily trot around near humans all day long.
dereks63@reddit
All the time, the sounds they make sound terrible!
Tonybham01@reddit
Everywhere.
ross-dirext-words137@reddit
All the time
WelshBluebird1@reddit
Plenty are around on our street at night. And someone I work with has a fox den in their garden.
HarryBayles@reddit
Quite a few. Bold as brass. Had at least two come right up to me, almost like they wanted a stroke
reader270@reddit
There’s a gang living in my back garden. They peer at me through the windows and the catflap. Or they just rock up to the back door…
I put a wildlife camera in the garden to spy on them. It’s entertaining.
Master_Piccolo_9178@reddit
Is this a serious question? I live in SE London and see and hear multiple foxes every day.
Sad_Spread_9883@reddit
On a main road during the day IN London.
T0urnad0@reddit
Yes lots. I walked past one on Euston Road in London at about 9pm the other day. There was cars and pedestrians everywhere and it gave precisely zero fucks!
Fit-Bedroom-7645@reddit
Wait till you hear them shagging.
asymmetricears@reddit
Yeah there was one living in the pile of bin bags I had in the back garden. His name was Jerome, he moved to London from the country and got high on drugs and ended up homeless and moved to the pile of bin bags.
Flaky-Walrus7244@reddit
Yes, I saw one walking down the street in Edinburgh at about 10 pm
elf_n_safety@reddit
Are you around Craigleith retail park? Used to see them there all the time
Flaky-Walrus7244@reddit
This was on Raeburn Place in Stockbridge
elf_n_safety@reddit
Not far away then. Could be the same foxes
NeonTempta@reddit
Yeah, I’ve seen them a few times usually at night just wandering through quiet streets or gardens.
Recent-Walrus-3366@reddit
What do you mean? I've seen literally thousands.
mjratchada@reddit
More commonly than I do in rural areas, but mostly in evenings or early hours of the morning.
ClericalRogue@reddit
Quite a few. 2-4am are peak hours around here.
Billy_Rizzle@reddit
No, but I have seen plenty of town foxes.
olivinebean@reddit
You have to be outside between dusk and dawn.
They sleep during the middle of the day, seek chips out of bins by night.
GeggingIn@reddit
A lot.
One strolled past me on the pavement last week. He was so big at first thought he was a stray dog.
SpunkSacks@reddit
Thousands if not more I reckon. Very common in London. Had them living in an overgrown garden once. Sleeping in the sun.
Mainly at night though walking to and from the pub or driving at night through the houses.
EasyCheesecake1@reddit
Loads, they are quite bold and are out and about before it gets dark.
dinkidoo7693@reddit
Was one in my back garden a few weeks ago, it was just passing through
fourlegsfaster@reddit
Yes. In London and in Plymouth.
amiescool@reddit
A city fox like… a fox in a city? I live on the outskirts of Manchester City Centre and I literally saw one at about 6:30pm last weekend running down a walkway between two streets near my house. I don’t see them all the time but I have seen probably five or six of foxes just out and about in the streets (albeit never seen one that early or light outside before last week) in my 33yrs and I’ve never lived in or near countryside
rictay44@reddit
They come into our garden regularly, but at night. Also seen one trotting along a main road in Croydon, Surrey without fear late one evening. Used to see them when working night shift at a petrol station in London.
Dr-Moth@reddit
Loads. I was once growled at by a fox I followed down my garden as a child.
I've got a camera outside my house, I've seen foxes, but also the occasional muntjac deer.
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