I think that's the probelm right there, people don't know what they are really doing when they're trying to help out the skinny-looking animal. Only actual way to make them understand is to let them know of the dangers and risk that the innocent act of feeding the hungry-looking animal; otherwise they won't know what harm they are causing.

Thanks SittingFox, I think it's rather important that everyone reads this topic becuase I know I certainly learned something from it. Overall, it's bad and should be avoided; however, an occasional treat used as a lure is okay.

Thanks Lupis Fang but again, when I'm in North America, I would absolutely never use food for a lure no matter what the circumstances.

I think this is a very important topic because many thousands of animals and a few people have died through getting this issue wrong. One case of many: two wolves off Vancouver Island a few years back started wandering across a certain beach. The visiting tourists thought it funny to feed them, play with them, etc. The wolves started interacting with people more and more. Eventually one of them bit a man quite badly. Both wolves were both promptly shot. As far as I know not one tourist was ever held to account for the illegal behaviour that led to the attack and the wolves' deaths.

This is the tragedy - the wolves' deaths were needless. No food, no problem.

On a related point, I would like to make clear that these photos I take of bears etc are NOT done through encroaching too close to them. With the exception of my garden foxes and some bold birds I don't try to get close to wildlife. I have

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and if I think I'm disturbing the animal I leave at once.

yo,about the fox, I have gotten legal permission to take it into my care and an unexpected thing about the fox is it had cooperated with out any trouble so now its in my back yard that was modified for the foxes safety and my whole family is helping me get him (yes a him) back to good health, he whines alot since hes not getting the quantity of food hes used to,bleah, other than that things are good...I think