{"id":292111,"date":"2025-11-19T00:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292111\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T00:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T00:26:10","slug":"a-fed-fox-is-a-dead-fox-rescue-group-warns-of-dangers-of-feeding-wild-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/292111\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Fed Fox is a Dead Fox\u2019 Rescue Group Warns of Dangers of Feeding Wild Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/signal-hill-fox-sign.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"'A Fed Fox is a Dead Fox' Rescue Group Warns of Dangers of Feeding Wild Animals\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Parks Canada workers erect a sign warning people against feeding the foxes at Signal Hill<\/p>\n<p>A fed fox is a dead fox. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the message Rock Wildlife Rescue wants visitors to Newfoundland and Labrador\u2019s parks and national historic sites to remember. <\/p>\n<p>A fox was recently struck and killed by a vehicle at Signal Hill, and officials say it\u2019s a direct result of people feeding the animals. <\/p>\n<p>Director of Rock Wildlife Rescue, Karen Brown-Gosse says when you feed wild animals, you are making them used to people and less wary. <\/p>\n<p>She says it also makes the animals more dependent on scraps instead of hunting, which makes subsequent generations even more vulnerable. <\/p>\n<p>She says foxes are bringing their kits to places like Signal Hill for food. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re teaching their young to come to these places as well, and that\u2019s putting them at a very high risk, because when the winter comes, and we\u2019re not at Signal Hill, and those foxes are coming out looking for food, then what?\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>She says some will adapt and return to hunting, but the young ones won\u2019t be able to do that. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot to mention, people have been bitten.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Parks Canada workers erect a sign warning people against feeding the foxes at Signal Hill A fed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-292111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}