Red Foxes are omnivores, they eat and hunt for their own food as they are solitary creatures. They can eat many things that many different animals can not eat (like goats) and can eat up to ANYTHING, Red foxes are not picky animals and will eat whatever is available.Some of the things that Red Foxes can list up to OVER 30 types of things.They eat all types of things, fruit, veges, meat, bugs and insects.
Here is a big list of some of those amazing things:
- Rodents
- Grasshoppers
- Amphibians
- Berries
- Cherries
- Small Reptiles
- Sedges
- Apples
-Nuts
- Plums
-Shrews
- Blackberries
- Turtles
- Insects
-Snakes
-Waterfowl
- Native Rats
- Lizards
- Molluscs
- Birds
- Grapes
- Rats
The Red Foxes hunt these many creatures by using their well known 'Mouse Leap" skill which tells the red foxes their talent or status, it uses their good hearing, movement, speed, nose and knowledge.The Red Foxes hearing can go far enough to be able to hear from underground steps of a little young mouse and tiny steps of a grasshopper, when the Red Foxes finds or chooses its target /prey it will sneak up to it and use the Mouse Leap, a jump that immediately lands on its prey.Even though they Red Fox hunts a lot, it can only eat up to 1/2 kg of food a day and the rest they store in an area somewhat like a cupboard called a cache, a type of hole that Foxes make and store their food in.Red Foxes or most foxes eat every part of the animal to live, bone, fur and flesh.
The rest of the other big list:
- Beaver
- Acorns
- Earthworm's
- Beetles
- Mice
- Cray Fish
- Garbage
- Worms
- Fish
- Pet Food
Raccoons
-Opossums
- Fish
- Muskrats
- Cray Fish
- Frogs
- Skunks
- Invertebrates
- Fish
- Moles
- Sunflower seeds
- Deer Fawns
- Squirrels
- Spiders
- Caterpillars
- Carrion(Dead or Rotten Flesh)
- Eggs
- Wood Chucks
- Voles
- Grasshoppers
- Amphibians
- Berries
- Cherries
- Small Reptiles
- Sedges
- Apples
-Nuts
- Plums
-Shrews
- Blackberries