Do dog foxes get smellier as the mating season approaches?

[walshie 2,804]

As above.

I shot a fox in my garden this morning. As soon as I opened the back door, the smell of fox whooshed into the house.

When I looked it over, the smell literally made my eyes water and now the house stinks.

I just wondered if it was a mating thing?

[dymented 2,220]

will be the scent glands you must have shot it while it was marking its territory

[paulus 26]

As above.

I shot a fox in my garden this morning. As soon as I opened the back door, the smell of fox whooshed into the house.

When I looked it over, the smell literally made my eyes water and now the house stinks.

I just wondered if it was a mating thing?

they will be scent marking well now as mating commences next month, so the scent glands will be full to bursting. no different to hob ferrets when the day and night hours start to become equal.