Backyard Fox

[Yoshi]

I was on a picnic with a girl I used to date when I looked up to see a Fox running towards us. We got up and he slowed down and stopped about 25yds from us. He was a beautiful specimen. We sat back down and turned our picnic towards him so we could watch. All he did was "watch" back. We did this for about 15-20mins and then he lost interest and took off.

To say it was a cool event is an understatement.

 

[VNVGUNNER]

According to MD DNR Coyote is on the rise and will reduce Red Fox populations. I'm not sure I like that trade-off but whatcha gonna do? Go against Mother Nature?

REF:

(http://www.dnr.state.md.us/mydnr/askanexpert/coyote_issues.asp)

Yotes are showing up here on the shore.

 

[foxtrapper]

If you shoot a nuisance fox out of season you are supposed to get a permit to take it to a taxidermist, otherwise season opens nov 1 in the counties west of the bay excepting Charles, and you must have a furbearer permit ( 5.00 add on to hunting lisc). Just so you all know...( eastern shore opens nov 15 excepting Dorchester)

I had some guy from PA last year call me about mounting a fox he shot. I asked him if he had a furtaker lisc and he said he thought you didn't need one for fox and coyote. He was right on coyotes, but wrong on foxes. I didn't want that fox anywhere near here. DNR officer told me about a taxidermist who had a MD bobcat that a customer had shot- I'm not sure of wether they fined him or just confiscated it and gave him a warning ticket.

You CAN pick up a roadkill furbearer during the open season, and bring it to a taxidermist, no permit required, except for otter, which must be tagged by someone from the DNR.

 

[gtodave]

I smacked this girl in the backyard last night....

What is your draw length? That arrow looks long as hell

 

[DrunkUncles]

65lbs, 29in draw.... I've got long monkey arms....

 

[chris12138]

Range 25yrds, I shot it because it would not leave... I have kids and dogs (so do my neighbors).
My neighbor and I tried several times to scare it away and it would not go. We were both worried it might be sick. So I pulled out the bow and quick and quiet....

Good call Risking injury to pets or children isn't worth sparing a nosey critter, there's plenty more like him around. Just wish I could get a 1 on 1 chance with this pesky skunk of mine again.

 

[PGTMG]

I smacked this girl in the backyard last night....

I not getting in your business but what did it die from? Your shot was six inchs low

 

[CEK]

That may not be so strange behaver for the fox if people are feeding it or has been raised around people. Animals loose fear of people very quickly when people feed them, they start to see people as a source for food. and this can be dangerous and the animal will be come a nuisance.

IT was not a bad call to shoot the fox.

BeltBuckle and wlc if you're worried about mice and squirrels a few outside cats will take care of that and you can even pet them with little worries about being attacked

I had an outside cat to take care of the mice and other vermin...till a fox got the cat.

 

[Maryland Hunter]

A few weeks ago, I went and drug the deer I shot to the stream where I gut them. I went up the hill to get my stand, and when I came back, there was a fox standing on my deer. It was pitch black out, so I couldn't shoot, but I got within 8 ft of him before he reluctantly moved off. He stayed about 12 ft away the whole time I was gutting the deer. The property owner says that he has had the same type of encounters, and wants the fox gone. I like seeing them in the woods, it lets me know that my setup is good, scent-wise. Getting too close though, makes me think that something's wrong.

MH

 

[Neot]

I'm just down the road in Edgewater as well...no foxes lately (seen a few before) but groundhogs are on the extermination list here. Fortunately my dogs handle that business

 

[jtb81100]

Nice fox. They've definatly been getting pushed out some by coyotes. We just started getting them back out here after dealing with a yote issue a few years ago. Had one mouse hunting 20-25 feet from my blind the other day and had 4 out going for the geese that land in my field a few mornings the past month. Two are kind of mangy looking, but the other two are very nice looking. Can't wait for Nov.

 

[Naptown34]

Had a family of five under my shed last spring. They grew up and left. Fun to watch from our deck. We kept the cats inside for a while.

 

[Half-cocked]

Sighting report: Eldersburg, tonight at 8pm, crossing Londontown Blvd from the undeveloped lot into the business park. Big fox, at least one of the largest I've seen.

 

[sykesville]

Yeah, we like watching fox from our kitchen window. They're really hansom animals. But I'd also like to get a full mount at some point for my cave.

 

[stevekaw]

Driving down Woodstock Road from Route 99 in Howard County last week, saw a large red fox pulling on a deer carcass by the roadside that was apparently hit by a car the evening before. Interesting sight in a suburban area...

 

[sailskidrive]

Driving down Woodstock Road from Route 99 in Howard County last week, saw a large red fox pulling on a deer carcass by the roadside that was apparently hit by a car the evening before. Interesting sight in a suburban area...

Foxes are all over the place in Howard and Anne Arundel. I spot them running across route 32 between Linden Church Rd and Burntwood Rd about once a month.

 

[George]

I go fishing out North Point State Forrest in Baltimore County. About 4 years ago I would go every Sunday. While there one Sunday I happen to see a young fox so I gave it one of the peelers I had left over. After that that same fox would come back to where I parked every Sunday at the same time. So I fed it every Sunday and eventually it would come and take the peeler right out of my hand but any time I had someone else with me he would stay back 15 feet. So every Sunday it would come at the same time and get a peeler. I thought it was pretty cool, eventually it grew up and stopped coming. They are really smart animals and have a really well built in time clock.

 

[kohburn]

i used to have foxes come into my back yard to eat my hens, they have been replaced by a coyote

 

[phor]

How are you going to cook it?

 

[EL1227]

My neighbor called Animal Control once for a similar issue, they said they only deal in domesticated animals call DNR... DNR basically said big whoop... We can call the cops for you or you can do it yourself but they weren't gonna do anything. So now a couple of the neighbors call me Robin of the Hood to bust my chops but love it when I share the deer I harvest and help fill their freezers!

We had a fox hit by a car and badly injured a while back. It crawled into my front yard. I called the police, who told me to call animal control, who told me to call DNR. DNR showed up 2 hours later and proceeded to empty a M&P 40 magazine from 5 yards away, only hitting the immobile animal twice.

I told the officer that I could have done it with my own M&P ... with a single round at no greater than 3 foot, but some nosey neighbor would have called the cops for illegal discharge.