In the wintertime, when the bugs and fruits are gone, they eat small animals like mice, rabbits, birds, turtles, eggs, and even dead animals like road-kills. Foxes will also eat your trash if they can find it. Many foxes are starting to live in and around neighborhoods like raccoons. Sometimes, if they live near a farm, they will kill and eat a few chickens. Farmers used to shoot foxes for this, but today, they know that foxes help by eating the mice and grasshoppers that would damage their crops.
Many foxes live near people because they can find a lot of food in a small space.
In the wild, foxes need a large living space or territory. They have a home range of one to five miles. Red foxes move over that range looking for food, usually hunting alone. It's like leaving a note to remind themselves not to go there again. Red foxes can be very territorial, fighting other foxes that come into their area.