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We Provide Humane Fox Trapping, Removal and Damage Repair Services
throughout New Jersey and Staten Island, NY
Common Nuisance Situations:
Calls from customers often peak from mid-April through mid-May, when the females are looking for den sites in which to raise their young. From mid-May through September, customers may call about noise from barking or because of a confrontation. Most calls are about the Red Fox because they dig their own den or use an abandoned woodchuck burrow and increase the size, which may be under decks or sheds. Sometimes the red fox is aggressively territorial.
Why Are They Damaging My Property ?
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- Their mere presence may frighten some people.
- Getting into the chicken (or turkey, duck, or goose) coop or yard. May take
piglets, lambs, and small pets.
- In the spring, they may den underneath a porch or in a yard for a while,
while they're raising their pups. Foxes generally use more than one den to
raise their pups and may move them as many as 2–4 times, so this may
be a short-term situation. They'll usually leave by the end of June at the
latest. These dens aren't used during other seasons.
- Foxes (and coyotes) will chew holes in irrigation pipes in fields and orchards.
- Disease risks: Rabies, distemper. Red foxes, but not gray, get mange.
Common Myths About Foxes:
- Foxes are much smaller than many people think. They're about the weight
of a house cat (10–12 lbs.).
- They don't often attack dogs or people (unless the fox is rabid). These
are relatively small predators which usually hunt mice.
- Pups that are alone during the day have not necessarily been abandoned.
Their parents are probably out hunting for food for them. (This is also true
of coyotes.)
- A fox that's active during the day is not necessarily rabid. Most likely,
it's a healthy animal that's feeding more often than usual, because of the
demands of their young.
Description:
Red Fox: Rusty orange above, whitish below; lower legs black. Muzzle narrow; large ears pointed, black. Tail bushy, white-tipped. Eats rodents, rabbits, birds, insects, berries, fruit. Has strong scent. Native and introduced English stock now intermixed. Numbers increasing. voice Short yap, long howls.
Sign: Den often a Woodchuck burrow on a rise, entrance enlarged to 3'. Tracks: slightly larger foreprint 2 1/8" long; 4 toe pads.
Breeding: 1-10 young March to April.
Habitat: Brushy and open areas.
Activity: Mainly nocturnal, year-round; often also by day in winter.
Gray Fox: Grizzled gray above, reddish on lower sides, chest, and back of head; throat and belly white. Tail similarly colored, but has black "mane" on top and black tip. Legs and feet rust-colored. Ears prominent. Ht 14 1/815" (3638 cm); L 3144" (80113 cm); T 8 5/817 3/8" (2244 cm); HF 3 7/85 7/8" (1015 cm); E 2 3/43G0 (78 cm); Wt 7 1/413 lb (3.35.9 kg).
Sign: This fox digs if necessary, and it sometimes enlarges a Woodchuck burrow, but it prefers to den in clefts, small caves, rock piles, hollow logs, and hollow trees, especially oaks. Occupied in the mating season, dens are seldom used the rest of the year. . Tracks: Foreprint about 1 1/2" (37 mm) long; hindprints as long, slightly narrower.; 4 toe pads.
Breeding: Mates JanuaryApril; 1 litter of 17 young born MarchMay; gestation 53 days.
Habitat: Varied; more often in wooded and brushy habitats than Red Fox.
Activity: Although active primarily at twilight and at night, the Common Gray Fox is sometimes seen foraging by day in brush, thick foliage, or timber. The only American canid with true climbing ability, it occasionally forages in trees and often takes refuge in them, especially in leaning or thickly branched ones.
Typical Fox Den
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