To 152047,

Saw a fox catch and eat a rat last night right under my window. It was tossing something up in the air several times, which I could clearly see was a rat. It then happily munched it whole! That mght also explain why you don't see any rat remains around. Earlier on the fox had been foraging around near the bushes nearby and using its claws to dig things out of the ground, so it was obviously looking for small insects and worms.

Rats and insects do form a large part of a fox's diet and they definitely help to keep rat numbers down, however much some of you dislike them.

So although I wasn't in time to film this, I can categorically state that foxes do eat rats.

This post was last modified: 04-04-2012 03:07 PM by seeformiles.