Help with my baby fox!?

i am 17 years old... i know i shouldnt have but about 2 months ago i found a baby fox on my way home from school and her leg looked hurt. she limped on it... i gave her some painkillers that we had from my dog ((that passed away)) and surprisingly she let me put an ace bandage on it. i made a bed for her and let her use my dogs old water dish and feed her milk through a bottle i bought especially for her :) . Her name is Narcissus ((cause she loves looking in my mirror)) she seems happy and loves my big closet but she is getting too comfortable and makes noises to communicate with me so it is obviously time to tell my mom how should i tell her??? I love her like a baby because i have nursed her back to health and am terrified that my mom'll get rid of her... what should i do???

Help with my baby fox!?
What you have done is illegal and dangerous. If the fox bit someone, even a tiny little nip, it could be taken away from you and destroyed, because it is a wild animal.





Contact a licensed wildlife rehabilitator immediately. You can find one here: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~devo0028/contact....





These people have the specialized training to care for sick, injured and orphaned wild animals. They also have the required state and federal licenses that allow them to keep wild animals until they are healthy enough to be returned to the wild.





Do NOT just let the fox go - it will not survive in the wild. It needs to be rehabilitated and trained to find its own food and to fear humans again. If this animal were to be let loose and it ran up to a human, that person might hurt or kill the animal, thinking it was going to attack, or that it was rabid.





I understand why you did what you did. For some of us, it is all but impossible to see an animal that needs help, and not try to give it the help it needs. But you are not trained or licensed to do this with wild animals.





If you are interested in doing this - legally - take a look at these two websites:





http://www.owra.org/becoming.htm





http://www.ewildagain.org/pdf/RecBooklet...








After reading the information on these two websites, if you are interested in becoming a licensed wildlife rehabilitator, contact some rehabbers near you and see if they would allow you to volunteer at their place, to learn and get experience so you can eventually apply for your own rehabber's license.
Reply:Zoos will NOT take a fox that's been tamed.





A wildlife rehabber can raise the fox properly and let it loose in a good natural area for you. You can find one that's close to you by calling around to the vet clinics and asking, or calling the animal shelters. Usually there's a few people in the area that are licensed.





IF your state has rules allowing the public to have wildlife, you'll need to get a license from them saying its ok. The phone book will have the number of the state's DNR, Department of Natural Resources. They're the ones that do the licensing.





The longer the fox is around people the harder it will be to gether back into the wild. Don't wait. I'd call the wildlife rehab person first.





I typed in 'wisconsin wildlife rehabber' and it came up with a ton of stuff, including the name of people by county. Try doing a google.com search with your state's name first. Then email them or call by phone.
Reply:A tame fox is something you have for life,she's lost her fear of man...In other words you turn her loose and she'll run up to the next hunter or game keeper,and I need not spell out the results of that surely.....So bottom line I'd be telling Mater that you have a tame fox and work it out from there.
Reply:if you really have done what you have said then you basically have signed a death sentence for this animal.


not only is it illegal, its a rabies vector specie. you cant realease it into the wild because its too used to humans, if you release it to the state they will put it down if it cant find a facility like a zoo or a museum to place it in, then again it may have rabies so...yea they will kill it


GREAT JOB!
Reply:ok tell ur mom or if u can drive take it to a zoo where (you already got it accustomed to having humans around) it can live out the remainder of her life. the smart idea would have been to take her to a wild life rehabilitaiton center and let them nurse her back to health. there is no way u can keep her legaly and she cant go back to the wild she is already tame.
Reply:Hi there. You need to tell your mom, and then you need to contact wildlife services. A fox is a wild animal, and although it's cute now, it will grow and take on adult behaviours. If it is still young there's a good chance it can still survive in the wild, but the longer you keep it the less chance there is. It needs to learn to catch it's food and other fox behaviours. It was very kind of you to take it in but now you need to do the next kind thing for the fox and call wildlife officials. You'll be harming it more than helping it if you keep it any longer.





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http://www.foxes.org/urbanfox/part3.html
Reply:if you get the fox vaccinated you should be ablte to legally keep it. how have you hid it so your mom cant find her? tell your mom that you are almost an adult and need to make decisions on your own and that you will care for the baby becasue you love her and that she should take your love away. if done in a manture way she should let you keep the baby unless she is a very stubborn parent
Reply:been all that time and u hadent told ur mum lol..and i think its illegal or something but id keep it anyway