This might seem like a dumb question, but does anyone out there know if adult red foxes somehow lose that peculiar skunk like odor when they are with a litter of young??? I ask this question because in the last week there is a litter of red fox pups that have showed up first in one of the road pipes on our farm road and within a few days they moved into a hay barn. I see them just about everyday and I also see, I guess it's the mother not far. She will always run up into the woods but not go far. I have been in the pretty close proximity of them several times, but have not noticed that skunk like smell. I always smell it when I come upon one or where one was recently pretty much any other time of the year.
I have had red fox pups in the past that I raised to adults and while they were young they didn't have the scent either, but around here anyways they all have it when they are adults. Just wondering if anyone knows whether or not this is true and/or if this is a survival thing so predators like coyotes cant find their den as easy???
I have had red fox pups in the past that I raised to adults and while they were young they didn't have the scent either, but around here anyways they all have it when they are adults. Just wondering if anyone knows whether or not this is true and/or if this is a survival thing so predators like coyotes cant find their den as easy???