Wildlife Division Warns Public About Feeding Foxes
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Persons are as soon as once more being reminded to not feed the foxes after Conservation Officers responded to stories of foxes which have change into accustomed to human interplay in Port aux Basques and on Fogo Island.
The Division of Fisheries, Forestry and Wildlife says feeding foxes or different wildlife could make them depending on people for meals and creates a public security hazard.
It may even end result within the animals having to be euthanized.
The division says wild animals could be harmful and unpredictable and should carry transmissible ailments that may be a well being risk to individuals and pets.
Officers say whereas the intuition to feed or help wild animals could also be arduous to withstand, they need to be left undisturbed of their pure habitat.
