However, any females that stay have to obey their mother, and will be attacked and even killed if they do not follow the alpha female's wishes. Threats Foxes are preyed upon by golden eagles, wolves, coyotes, bears, diseases like rabies and distemper, and humans trapping them for fur and hunting them for sport. Red foxes are also raised on farms for their fur. Despite constant hunting pressures, there are more red foxes now than during the medieval times. It appears that the red fox, unlike other species, is actually benefiting from human expansion, and so will be impossible to eradicate.
Foxes also get numerous diseases and parasites.
They can carry canine distemper, rabies, and upper respiratory diseases as well as mange, ticks, lice, fleas, tapeworms, roundworms, hookworms, and various protozoans. Foxes, like other wild animals, do NOT make good pets. They are wild animals, and have evolved to live their life in the wild. These adaptations that make them able to survive in the wild make them unmanageable as pets. They have a very powerful musky odor, will mark their territory, will bite if they feel threatened, and will destroy property in order to attempt to cache food.