Hunting In the far north when mice are abundant, they are the main source of food for foxes. But mice and voles are an important part of all red foxes' diets regardless of where they live.
Foxes have several methods of hunting mice and voles.
In the winter, when the ground is covered with snow, the fox plunges into the snow above them. It attempts to pin the mouse or vole down with its paws. Even if it misses on the first attempt, the pounce blocks the runway and stops the escape of the rodent. During the summer, a fox can locate the mice by smelling and listening to them in their grass homes or runways. They dig the mouse out of its hole.