[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by Mick

Sorry, but I don't just buy it that there is one sole reason why foxes have become more urban, there has to be more than one reason, there was still plenty of rural land for Foxes to live and breed on, they didn't need to stay in the city streets.

The rural land you speak of might well be the patch of another fox. I wonder how many of these foxes are entirely urban as well, I live in the second largest London Borough and am quite certain the foxes round here have no need to be entirely urbanised.

Intersting article on fox attacks

There are few records of foxes attacking humans. In 2002, Sue Eastwood said her 14-week-old boy, Louis, was injured after a fox slunk into her sitting room in Dartford, south-east London. Hackney council claims it has never received a reported incident. But a number of the London borough's residents have been attacked by foxes, including three people in the same block of flats. Many people don't report fox attacks because they don't think they will be believed.

Claire Blakeway was attacked by a fox at her home in Stoke Newington, north London, in July 2003. She was sleeping in her bedroom when she awoke and screamed with pain. "It was like someone dropped a brick on my foot," she says. Blood was streaming from her foot. She had left the door to the fire escape open and, at dawn, a fox had padded into her room, three floors up. "It must've come into the bedroom, seen my foot and had a gnaw on it," she says. "It sunk its incisors into either side of my foot." Her screams scared it off before she could see it but it left distinctive paw prints – not the prints of a cat – running across her cream carpet and on to her sheets. Blakeway got antibiotics for the bite but never formally reported it to anyone, although she heard from the flat warden that two other residents had also reported foxes attacking them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...on-urban-foxes