sponsor a fox
+ to help support ongoing costs
become a sponsor
You can sponsor patients or permanently disabled residents or both if you wish. Each is explained below.
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Your sponsorship helps provide care to all of these beautiful beings taken in and goes directly to their care, be it on veterinary treatment and remedies, intensive or basic care, physiotherapy and rehabilitation where needed, medical consumables and food.
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Important Note: Unlike some charities (especially the larger ones) we do not provide anything physical in return such as brochures, cards, gifts, keepsakes, etc because it would be a waste of those funds. Every penny is spent on the patient care, nothing is wasted on marketing fluff or postage or physical perks, because that would be pointless, silly and squandering vital funding. Every penny you give goes to the direct costs associated with caring for patients.
just for their nutrition and disposable bedding or laundry costs, not including medication, remedies or veterinary treatment.
it costs approx £ 7
per fox patient per day
sponsor patients
Patients stay length varies depending on condition/injury/recovery needs and range from 24 hours to the duration of antibiotics to many months for more serious injuries or physiotherapy. Foxes are expensive to care for whether that's disposable bedding, food, medication, parasite treatment, surgery costs, rehabilitation, routine vet visits, etc.
one-time donation (patients)
monthly donation (patients)
specific patient
Sometimes its impossible not to fall in love with a particular patient so this option was added for that reason. If you would like to cover the care of a specific patient, this is something I will enable in future. For now, if this is of interest just let me know, otherwise you can donate as normal using the link below.
sponsor disabled residents
Residents are generally those with some form of disability that makes their chances of survival in the wild low to none, including neurological issues, missing limb(s), irreparable parasite damage, deformity or other condition. These are previous or ongoing patients depending on their injuries so there is the cost associated with initial treatment in addition to ongoing physio, rehab, medication, routine bloods/checks, past surgery, etc. Some will require lifelong care, medication or physio.
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In the future, once the sanctuary is built there will be 3 levels; Primary Sponsor; Additional Sponsor and Special Exclusive Sponsor but for now there is only one sponsor type and everyone gets the same perks.
sponsor a permanent resident
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Monthly reoccurring sponsor donation.
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Contacted regarding any major medical or life threatening decisions or conditions with your fox.
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Mentioned/tagged/named as a sponsor on social media posts about your sponsored fox​
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please note, during busy/peak periods (such as cub season) there may be less posts about your sponsored fox if priority is given to highlight a particular patient or condition that requires awareness or education opportunity - personal/private updates are always welcome.
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Updates as and when requested. Please note there may be a slight delay in reply in the event of emergency patient intakes or general patient care priorities but time will always be allocated to replying. ​
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Not expected to but given the option to contribute or cover veterinary treatment, where applicable.
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Welcome to send items to your fox,
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although you must check first to ensure the item is suitable (for example some foxes are not allowed toys if they specifically have a highly destructive personality, are known to destroy or injure themselves on toys or said items or if they do not like or are not allowed a certain food or treat due to intolerance or medical condition.
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Behind the scenes raw unedited clips, photos, videos of your fox where it doesn't invade their boundaries and comfort.
£50 per month
it costs APPROX £ 7 per day per fox
to buy food, disposable bedding or laundry costs. Sponsorship is a contribution, it of course does not cover the full cost or any of the cost associated with remedies, medication, veterinary treatment or other costs.
notes on sponsoring patients/residents
Unfortunately, the nature of what I do involves rescuing or taking in patients who are sometimes in a really bad way. Foxes are so resilient that they only start to show symptoms or signs of illness or injury when they're too weak or vulnerable to be able to hide/mask it since they are expert masters at masking pain and suffering. Sponsoring patients is either a specific patient or generically contributing to all patients so please do bear in mind that even though I try everything possible for each patient, sometimes it is their body which decides their time despite full medical care, as such it is a heartbreaking part of this that some may pass away even under intensive care or veterinary supervision.
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Foxes including orphaned youngsters need to have limited contact with humans, as such there are only certain times I will take photos or video and that is normally at unavoidable interaction times of wound management, feeding or changing bedding and will depend on the need of the patient so if one is particularly scared, vulnerable or critical there may not be any photos or videos of the patient or they may be potato quality, I will always prioritise their care, safety and comfort over photo opportunities. This is why sometimes there are no photos of video at the vets as I am generally the one handling the patient for the veterinary staff. Please bear this in mind if there is a lack of photos and therefore updates publicly about a patient, that said, as a sponsor you are more than welcome to updates privately which my be in either text or audio message or both.
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There is not currently the opportunity to meet the fox in person, for few reasons:
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For patients still under medical treatment this is obvious, they are recovering wild animal patients after all. For fully recovered yet permanently disabled foxes or cubs, some simply do not want human contact or presence, particularly anyone they aren't familiar with. Some love to hide, some think its hilarious to move during a photo leaving a blurred mess, some bond with one person and others want no part of being anywhere near people so their boundaries take priority over all else.
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Unfortunately being in the UK, which is different to the US, illegal fox hunting and hunt supporters operate and I will always endeavour to protect these foxes from harm. This means I do not give out their location publicly nor to any sponsors. I realise some excellent sanctuaries and rehabbers offer tours and meet & greets in the US if their license or state allows and they choose, bearing in mind that many sanctuaries there are foxes rescued from fur farms and do not behave in the same way as wild foxes due to breeding related conditions, also depending on the State legalities on visiting this is something that can raise awareness against fur farming for example and would generally be relatively safe to do within reason but unfortunately in the UK it is mostly wild foxes since fur farming has been illegal for a long time and therefore not really entirely safe or wise to do so due to the species and problems here with illegal hunting still being a factor.
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I am also of the view that wild foxes do not really want human contact unless they choose on their own terms, as such I would never force this upon them. Foxes (residents) who do interact through their own choice are the ones you may see on videos being tolerant or 'friendly' and this is purely on their terms, they have not been 'tamed' - it is a myth that human contact 'tames' them, they have just chosen to trust one or more individuals or not. They still remain cautious and do not trust everyone, we have plenty who just really run a mile when anyone is around given the chance no matter how much kindness and bribe attempt treats they are offered. Many, however, simply would rather avoid humans, which I can related to, and many are freaked out by the presence of a 'new' person so if someone did visit, the fox will likely run a mile anyway and be stressed by it, for that reason alone visits/interactions are not offered for wild fox patients or residents. It would potentially be different if we had foxes rescued from fur farms, but this is not the case in the UK.