I love your fox photos, but I am concerned about the little guy. We had a fox in our meadow couple years ago and it lost a lot of his hair on the tail, flanks etc. That fox’s eyes looked very similar & distinctively half shut. I wonder if this is an early stage of mange. I looked up the disease and it did seem to talk about affecting the eyesight as well. As the disease progresses, they get weakened and can’t see to catch prey. In England they treat their foxes with a medicine, as they’re valued predators.
That fox’s eyes indicate he has mange. I had a fox that looked just like the pictures you have..closed eyes and looked like he was molting but he was not. Within a week of looking just how the one in your pictures did, he went down hill drastically. I realized at that point, he was very sick. I would update your information on your page because your site was actually one of the websites I came across. All the pictures that come up online of foxes with mange only show the really bad stages of it and that can misinform people. I did not see the comment section, only read your descriptions under the picture too. Lesson learned, I will send a picture to a wildlife specialist and not go by comparing pictures on the computer. I would update that its not molting and its early stage of mange
I love your fox photos, but I am concerned about the little guy. We had a fox in our meadow couple years ago and it lost a lot of his hair on the tail, flanks etc. That fox’s eyes looked very similar & distinctively half shut. I wonder if this is an early stage of mange. I looked up the disease and it did seem to talk about affecting the eyesight as well. As the disease progresses, they get weakened and can’t see to catch prey. In England they treat their foxes with a medicine, as they’re valued predators.
That fox’s eyes indicate he has mange. I had a fox that looked just like the pictures you have..closed eyes and looked like he was molting but he was not. Within a week of looking just how the one in your pictures did, he went down hill drastically. I realized at that point, he was very sick. I would update your information on your page because your site was actually one of the websites I came across. All the pictures that come up online of foxes with mange only show the really bad stages of it and that can misinform people. I did not see the comment section, only read your descriptions under the picture too. Lesson learned, I will send a picture to a wildlife specialist and not go by comparing pictures on the computer. I would update that its not molting and its early stage of mange