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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually you’re supposed to leave it alone and let nature take its course. Mange is natural population control. [/quote]actually oftentimes it is caused by people or municipalities using poison as pest control.  ironically this reduces the predator population which causes the rodent population to increase and thus more poison is used to control the rodents which prevents the predator population from growing/stabilizing  .... etc.

https://www.eastcountymagazine.org/deadly-mange-linked-rodent-poisons

i can't say whether this was a factor for this particular fox but i just wanted to note that dismissing this as some sort of "natural population control" without accounting for the fact that humans are actually directly responsible for the increased susceptibility to mange in at least some animals, in some places, at least some of the time, would be -- at the very least -- inaccurate.  sorry that the linked article is not from
a peer reviewed journal citing a double blind placebo controlled study (aka "the gold standard" of scientific evidence). i'm here because i'm looking for information on helping foxes as we have a similar problem in my area at the moment and i just found out the link between the rodenticides myself. i thought it might change some perspectives as it certainly did mine[/quote]

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