Is it worth contacting wildlife services to try to help this mangy fox?

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1. Crack fox

2. Yes deffo

3. Maybe give these guys a go – [https://foxproject.org.uk/](https://foxproject.org.uk/)

4. No, nature will take its course, anyone trying to rescue it, even if they can find it, will just put it through unnecessary stress and suffering. It’s an old fox and will be dead soon anyway, you can’t cure old age.

5. Nope, it’s just clearly a very old fox. Leave nature to it.

6. What is wildlife services?

7. Someone in my work asked vet about this, they gave him medications for the manginess.

   The fox would stay around, eat the medication. The fox approached the man, but the man did not touch him at all.

   It took 2 months for the fox to improve, a very fresh healthy fox, and the fox went on with its life after that and stopped visiting

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9. It’s not old, it has mange. Contact your wildlife rescue centre and they will send you treatment. Wildlife rescue centres wouldn’t need to exist if we all just “let nature take its course”. The animal is suffering and needs help.

10. Don’t bother with the RSPCA, I tried to phone them about a fox and I couldn’t get out of the answering machine. Look for a local preservation team it’s far more reliable l.

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12. If you regularly feed or are sure you can give medications to this fox and only this fox through food, you can contact South essex wildlife hospital and they send mange treatment to anywhere in the country (or they at least used to)

13. As suggested try the fox project as that’s quite a bad case of mange.
    But this place will send you mange treatment for the cost of postage:
    https://www.national-fox-welfare.com/
    All you do is add the treatment to some food every day, you can’t over dose and no harm if mange free fox eats the food instead.

    Please let us know what happens.

14. Yes, call a local wildlife rescue centre.

15. You can get free medication online: [https://www.national-fox-welfare.com/](https://www.national-fox-welfare.com/) or [https://foxproject.org.uk/](https://foxproject.org.uk/)

    Make a jam sandwich with the medicine in, throw sandwich in garden to fox, repeat, result = healthy fox.

    Did this to a random fox that appeared in our garden, went from mingy to fluffy in next to no time.

16. I’d do what u can. We took their habitats in our growth least we can do and I’m no eco warrior just morales

17. Yes I would. It’s not nice seeing animals in pain whether wild or domesticated. If you can help please try.

18. Tweet Jeremy Clarkson, he’ll sort it out.

19. It won’t cost anything to call them. I called vet services to save a hedgehog who’d obviously been mauled by a feral cat or something else.

    It unfortunately died before the vet services arrived but they said they’d rather someone call and be too late sometimes than no-one call ever

20. He’s fine, he just cos playing as a hyena

21. Poor bastard..

22. Call fox angels, for some meds, put it in some jam sandwiches and he’ll be good to go. Save him.

23. YES!

24. You can order free food with mange medicine to leave in your garden

25. All thay would do is put poison out for it

26. Go get something for him on prescription and put it in a dish of food outside for him.

27. Shoot it