I would definately keep her on her lead & just quietly avoid the fox.
They won't usually attack an animal if a human is there, but there are always rogue ones.
We get plagued by foxes quite a bit. I keep geese, ducks & hens & so need to guard against them. They might look cute & cuddly but they will kill just for the heck of it. It's a myth that they just kill one animal to eat, once they start killing a sort of blood lust seems to take hold & the end result can be awful. Even though all my birds are securely locked away before dusk,I've had them break into locked hen houses, leave all in there dead or dreadfully wounded, including tiny chicks, & just take one hen.
We've had to be extra vigilant since the hunting ban, they've even taken some of my free range hens in broad daylight since that came in. |