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By Fleur
@Fleura (30541)
United Kingdom
October 19, 2023 6:00am CST
This morning when I got up and looked out of the widow, there was a fox outside. And rather surprisingly, the fox wasn’t harassing the chickens but appeared to be trying to reach the remaining apples on the trees!
I’ve never really thought of foxes eating fruit, although of course the story of ‘The Fox and the Grapes’ is one of Aesop’s fables. And dogs often enjoy fruit too, so I should have thought of it.
We have masses of grapes too at the moment (the other side of the house) so maybe I should leave a bunch or two out there for hungry mammals.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
19 Oct 23
what a treat! can ya tell i miss my fox family? anyhow, they're quite fond 'f fruits 'n veggies. the parents used to steal apples from neighborin' folks trash 'n bury 'em out back fer the kits to find. makes 'em real happy when blueberries 're ready. sadly, i've no fruit this year. 80+mph winds did much damage to my apple trees. they'd jest started flowerin' when the hail storms came. 'las, not apples fer fox, horses nor myself. the birds 'n fox 're 'lso 'nhappy 'bout the grape vines who suffered the same fate.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39509)
• United States
19 Oct 23
@Fleura fer certain 'n globally. widespread 'xtreme droughts, massive wildfires, large spread floods...the list goes'n. what the weather didn't destroy, the grasshoppers finished off, bless 'em.
@Tampa_girl7 (50528)
• United States
20 Oct 23
@Fleura I didn’t know that about grapes.
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@Fleura (30541)
• United Kingdom
20 Oct 23
When we had our Pup he liked all sorts of soft fruit, starting with gooseberries in the spring and ending with grapes in the autumn. That was when we realised that grapes are deadly poison to some dogs - luckily it turned out he wasn't one of them!
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@DaddyEvil (137636)
• United States
19 Oct 23
That's a decent photo, especially considering you're taking it through a window.
And yes, foxes will eat fruit and seem to love eating apples.
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@BarBaraPrz (47667)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
19 Oct 23
Can't see if she's wearing her black stockings...
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@wolfgirl569 (108144)
• Marion, Ohio
19 Oct 23
They enjoy fruit. That's a good picture
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@LindaOHio (181642)
• United States
19 Oct 23
We leave apples out for the deer all the time. You got to see a fox. How cool! I've only seen a fox once out here. Have a good day.
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