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Wildlife   Next Caring for wildlife Published on 18-09-2009 Email To Friend    Print Version Prevention of suffering by providing a safe haven for all animals at risk has always been our Charity’s objective and quite naturally, therefore, rescue and rehabilitation of wildlife frequently comes within our agenda.   Our native fox, despite his in-built instinct for self-preservation quite often becomes a victim of our man-made environment.  Road casualties are high, especially when cubs are being reared.  Amongst other dangers, toxic substances used by man can easily finish up in the stomach of a not-so-wise hungry scavenging fox cub.    In fact, it is a sad statistic that the average fox will never reach old age and is more likely to die from starvation.   With environmental issues currently to the fore, an ideal opportunity presents itself to enable every household to help the wildlife frequenting the garden. Almost certainly, at some point during the night a garden will be visited by some form of wildlife; perhaps a vixen and her cubs, hedgehogs, or even the odd badger or two. All will be seeking-out food to enable their survival.   Now, with winter upon us, we have a golden opportunity to give nature a helping hand by taking a closer look at what can be set aside from our kitchen scraps and left-overs in order to sustain wildlife.  Food palatable to humans is seldom refused by a hungry or even starving animal especially if, as is so often the case, incapacitated by injury or deformity.  Take great care, however, not to feed pork to foxes.