has anyone seen anything like this before?

[CRAZYHORSE 2,647]

went for a walk on a little marsh local to me, I noticed this fox working its way towards me, I took some photo's then froze as it was getting closer and closer. I did not no this but there was a pheasant hiding in the grass between me and the fox, the fox new it was there and was working his way towards it... suddenly the pheasant broke cover it startled me and I fell into a ditch...lol when I got out the fox had gone. when I looked at the photo's I noticed its eyes, the fox looks really healthy so is surviving well...... do you think it is totally blind?.

[kanny 21,724]

Winter's coming

[Guest Navek]

f***ing white walkers everywhere now 

 

[Meece 1,958]

What do you know "grasshopper".  It does look blind but it seems to be in good condition. I wonder if it is clearing up birds after a shoot or along the road. The shoot along the road to work looses a few to traffic. The fox was on the trail of that pheasant.

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

Zombie foxes

[Meece 1,958]

I would think that it may survive by using heightened sense of smell and hearing.  this might have the effect of moving slower around working out it's surroundings. "I've got my ear on you".

Edited November 25, 2017 by Meece

[DIDO.1 22,864]

Personally I can't imagine a blind fox ever surviving. I think it's light/cateracts/fck knows but not totally blind. 

Zoom in and it does actually look blind. 

Didn't fall in a ditch though did it you mong. 

[CRAZYHORSE 2,647]

5 hours ago, DIDO.1 said:

Personally I can't imagine a blind fox ever surviving. I think it's light/cateracts/fck knows but not totally blind. 

Zoom in and it does actually look blind. 

Didn't fall in a ditch though did it you mong. 

Yeah thanks for the intelligent answer....dildo

[greg64 3,052]

12 hours ago, Meece said:

I would think that it may survive by using heightened sense of smell and hearing.  this might have the effect of moving slower around working out it's surroundings. "I've got my ear on you".

i think you could be right about that ,foxes hunt in deep snow where they can't see there prey  so maybe your right 

[Meece 1,958]

No one will ever know but It would be interesting to know what happened to cause this problem with its eyes. It really looks in good condition though. Are there houses where it might be being fed. My sister has a den in her back garden and over the years there have been a series of resident foxes. She has treated them like pets to the point of hand feeding them crusts of bread and the like. They stay for some time and then they go and another arrives. Sometimes a fox has returned some months later. It's as if they have moved out of the area for some reason. In another situation the neighbours of one of my daughters actively feed the local foxes sometimes there were a pack of foxes sitting patiently for grub time when the neighbours would return from the butchers with a load of scraps and bones. The daughter went round there and gave them an ear bashing about it when she found a rotting sheeps head in the garden!! They have even had foxes sitting outside the patio doors like labradors watching them eat there dinner and sunbathing on the back garden lawn. The majority of people in that area feed the foxes even getting tins of dog food for them.

[stumfelter 3,034]

15 hours ago, kanny said:

Winter's coming

You know nothing Kanny snow.

[Greyman 32,027]

15 minutes ago, Meece said:

No one will ever know but It would be interesting to know what happened to cause this problem with its eyes. It really looks in good condition though. Are there houses where it might be being fed. My sister has a den in her back garden and over the years there have been a series of resident foxes. She has treated them like pets to the point of hand feeding them crusts of bread and the like. They stay for some time and then they go and another arrives. Sometimes a fox has returned some months later. It's as if they have moved out of the area for some reason. In another situation the neighbours of one of my daughters actively feed the local foxes sometimes there were a pack of foxes sitting patiently for grub time when the neighbours would return from the butchers with a load of scraps and bones. The daughter went round there and gave them an ear bashing about it when she found a rotting sheeps head in the garden!! They have even had foxes sitting outside the patio doors like labradors watching them eat there dinner and sunbathing on the back garden lawn. The majority of people in that area feed the foxes even getting tins of dog food for them.

My missus used to feed them every night in the back garden same situation, but my collie X learned to hide in the garden after I went out for my bedtime puff, he would kip in the summer house and fly out everytime everytime a fox came over the fence and as fast as they learned about the free food they learned it was a trap and now they avoid the garden, very clever opportunist  animal 

[CRAZYHORSE 2,647]

there is new houses about a mile away and there is a council tip about a mile away..but the fox to me acted more like a country fox, it was working the fields rather than holing up for the day and scavenging the tip and dustbins at night when its quiet.

[mackem 29,578]

1 hour ago, Meece said:

the neighbours of one of my daughters actively feed the local foxes sometimes there were a pack of foxes sitting patiently for grub time when the neighbours would return from the butchers with a load of scraps and bones.

Weybridge cemetery a few years years ago the council had to put a notice on the public notice board asking people not to feed the fox as they were approaching people and becoming a nuisance,I sat on a bench at the bottom of the Cem and had 4 quite close in full view,old ladies used to bring chicken and bacon in for them,beautiful place as sometimes roe deer used to walk around and there was a couple of rabbits.

[forest of dean redneck 12,023]

6 minutes ago, mackem said:

Weybridge cemetery a few years years ago the council had to put a notice on the public notice board asking people not to feed the fox as they were approaching people and becoming a nuisance,I sat on a bench at the bottom of the Cem and had 4 quite close in full view,old ladies used to bring chicken and bacon in for them,beautiful place as sometimes roe deer used to walk around and there was a couple of rabbits.

Was a couple of rabbits? Is that in the pretence ?