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I did speak with a Virginia state dept. of wildlife conservation expert who was very clear that I should NOT put medicines in any food (for a variety of reasons:  illegal to medicate an animal without examining it, don't know which animal will actually eat the food, and something else I can't remember).  She also said that the treatment has been tried on bears and hasn't been shown to work.  Plus, if the fox is around other fox (or animals) with mange, it'll just come back (the mange, that is).

The fox definitely has mange.  I don't know how to post a video, but the fox spends quite a bit of time using its hind leg to scratch and scratch and scratch.

Basically, she said if we weren't in Fairfax, we could euthanize it (with a gun), or we could try to get the county conservation folks to catch it (not sure if that was for treatment or euthanizing).  But, she made it very clear that we should not feed it or try to treat it.  And basically, this fox is likely to die from the mange.

Sad.  Our neighborhood fox always looked so good!  And didn't bother anyone (except when there were the vixen calls at night).

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