It’s spring and that means new life. Over the weekend we returned from an evening out to find three fox cubs exploring the road outside our home. We’ve not see fox cubs before – they looked like they might be on their first outing as they were so little.

We live in the middle of a city and have seen foxes around, particularly if we have been up very early in the morning. But to see the little ones exploring their surrounds was fantastic! Every night now we are looking out for them.

In an urban setting there is one predator of particular concern to the fox cubs. In a city they are safe from the still continuing, despite being illegal, horrendous fox hunting, but there is of course one significant threat – cars and other vehicles.

A recent podcast explored whether we can understand cars to be an apex predator based on the animal deaths they cause. From the podcast blurb refering to cars it says: “Nothing will eat them, leaving them free to wreak carnage on more vulnerable creatures.”.

The podcast is an interesting listen. We can only hope that the little foxes get a quick idea of how to listen for, and get out of the way of, any potential car danger. Being a car-free-family fortunately we don’t need to worry the killing capacities of any motor vehicle that we own.