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Originally Posted by nick_rowe The reason we suspect this is that a few days after this my mum happened to be calling in at a friends house around lunchtime and noticed their cat was corned by the Fox, in the farmyard! Mum leapt out of the car, grabbed the cat and ushered the Fox away. I know my mum is a gentle person but this Fox was either an amazing judge of character and called her bluff, or just had no real fear of humans, and a taste for cat 
So we've done some fence improvements to try to keep the Fox out during the day and so far it's worked fine - apart from yesterday's mystery. From how Mum describes it, the feathers seemed plucked, so all in all probably the buzzard, thanks Earth Hart.
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With regards urban foxes, when I lived in Brighton, near the race course, our cats (3) were always out on the Race Hill at night. Our neighbour told us to keep the cats in at night or the foxes would kill them. Imagine my surprise, when I stepped out one night & found a
Fox sitting on the wall having a conversation, face to face, with one of our cats, another cat was on the path below & puting in his two penerth. I quietly went in and got my camera & then wife, only to find I had no film left. Still we watched them for about 10mins, until the
Fox raised a paw & brushed the cat on the shoulder then jumped down off the wall & nuzzled the other cat before walking down the path & under the gate
. I think your
Fox must have been one hungry animal to take on the claws of a cat.