{"id":927200,"date":"2026-10-10T01:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927200\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T01:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T01:40:11","slug":"fox-begs-for-treats-on-new-mexico-golf-course-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927200\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox Begs for Treats on New Mexico Golf Course (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A woman and her son were golfing in Farmington, New Mexico, recently, when a cute fox wandered onto the golf course and appeared to beg for a snack. A video of the young man feeding crackers to the fox is going viral online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAn adorable fox wandered up to a golfer in Farmington, New Mexico, and was rewarded with a treat for its boldness,\u201d wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/abc7chicago\/?g=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ABC 7 Chicago<\/a> in an Instagram post sharing the viral video. \u201cJamie Decker, who filmed the interaction, said her son had just teed off when he turned around and spotted the fox standing nearby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoors.com\/watch-fox-swims-through-flooded-new-jersey-neighborhood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">WATCH: Fox Swims Through Flooded New Jersey Neighborhood<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The footage shows the man reach into his pack for a cracker, then hold it out for the fox, which eats it out of his hand. The animal then continues to come back for more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the golfer\u2019s intention was undoubtedly good, experts do not advise feeding wild animals, because they can start associating humans with food, which can lead to future human\/wildlife conflicts. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch a fox \u201cbeg for treats\u201d on a golf course in New Mexico below (or see it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DeR0UWdARPw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Header stock image by Achim Thomae\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman and her son were golfing in Farmington, New Mexico, recently, when a cute fox wandered onto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,45178,622,82,5488],"class_list":["post-927200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-foxes","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-wildlife-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927200","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=927200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}