Baby raccoon vs. full grown fox?

[Moss88hunter]

I was out hunting the other night for skunks and other nuisance animals. I was walking along a gravel drive and saw a red fox and so I crouched down and watched him for a couple minutes and heard a noise in the woods to my left. Aout 30 seconds later a small raccoon about the size of a full grown chihuaha came out and ran the full size red fox off. I just thought it was kinda strange. Has anybody ever seen anything like this?

Evan

[Mikey]

Evan - no, I have never seen such a thing but hardly doubt it.  Fox aren't all that aggressive - to smaller rodents and the like possibly yes but not to coytoe or raccoon, both of which are the more aggressive.  I also believe, or have been told by a couple of older farmers that reccoons carry a virus on their teeth or in their mouths that can cripple and eventually kill critters as large as dogs.  Raccoons also carry a virus that will attack the optic nerves of other animals, or maybe it is raccoon poo that carries it. 

Anyhow, raccoons are nasty critters and predatory.  Although fox are also predatory they are not as aggressive and the raccoon you saw may have been chasing other predators out of its area.  JMTCW.  Mikey.

[Ray Ford]

Guys,

Fox may not be aggressive, but my son was driving down one of the main drags in Alva, Oklahoma, one night about midnight when he saw a red fox cross the road with a large house cat, complete with collar and bell, in his mouth.  The cat was nearly as big as the Fox.
I may have posted this somewhere once before.

I 'coon hunted several years as a much younger person, and I've never heard about them carrying virus.  And I've seen old hounds that had been bitten by 'coons so many times that you couldn't count the scars.  Usually their ears were ripped up.  But maybe the virus is something that I haven't heard about.

Skunks are known to sometimes be rabies carriers.
Armadillos are known to sometimes be lepersy carriers.

[torpedoman]

foxes will not attack a cat facing it.. They will squall at the cat and try to scare it into running if the cat runs trhe fox will run it down and bite the back of its neck killing it without the danger of a fight. I have watched this happen 3 times to my neighbors cats, (I reather have the fox around than the cats)

[billy_56081]

foxes will not attack a cat facing it.. They will squall at the cat and try to scare it into running if the cat runs trhe fox will run it down and bite the back of its neck killing it without the danger of a fight. I have watched this happen 3 times to my neighbors cats, (I reather have the fox around than the cats)

I agree with ya there.

[Travis Morgan]

On funniest videos, they had a video of a cottontail rabbit beating up on a bullsnake so bad that it ran away and climbed a tree!

[outdoorlover]

Evan - no, I have never seen such a thing but hardly doubt it.  Fox aren't all that aggressive - to smaller rodents and the like possibly yes but not to coytoe or raccoon, both of which are the more aggressive.  I also believe, or have been told by a couple of older farmers that reccoons carry a virus on their teeth or in their mouths that can cripple and eventually kill critters as large as dogs.  Raccoons also carry a virus that will attack the optic nerves of other animals, or maybe it is raccoon poo that carries it. 

Anyhow, raccoons are nasty critters and predatory.  Although fox are also predatory they are not as aggressive and the raccoon you saw may have been chasing other predators out of its area.  JMTCW.  Mikey.

great info Mikey I never knew about this, this is totally awesome