Sir, - As a student of zoology in Trinity College Dublin, I recently completed a study of the diet of foxes in both rural and suburban areas and had the great pleasure throughout of seeing, first-hand, the astounding array of things a fox will eat.
They are opportunists and if you give them the chance - as David Carlton (April 7th) seems to be doing with regard his fowl, which he may find benefit from the protection of a simple, and readily available, fence - they will take any type of food, living or otherwise, although this does not include human prey, as David Wilkinson (April 10th) suggests.
But as for Ann Duggan's (April 4th) assertion that they will starve without such handouts, it's rather naive to think that such wide-spread and successful carnivores are depending so absolutely on human charity. - Yours, etc.,
Philip Duggan, Blackrock, Co Dublin.