Braco and Seka Lisica are recovering at the Zagreb ZOO: ‘They were saved, they would not survive without mom’

They were found without a mother, so their survival in nature was almost impossible without professional care. The experts of the Zagreb ZOO are now being taken care of, and they feed them – cat menu.

– Cat cans, as well as replacement milk for kittens, who are pleased to eat, which is an indicator that they are good health status, which is only the first phase – says the vet, adding that through the recovery, it passes between about thirty adult foxes a year, but this is this year’s first cub.

To brother and sister Lisica, it follows several weeks or even months of growing up in special conditions. It is crucial that they do not get used to human proximity because they then diminish the chances of returning to the wild.

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– Now they follow them, as well as to all cubs, feeding and getting used to the great dwelling, and if the whole process of recovery goes well, letting back into nature, in the summer months. But it also depends on the weather, as a long dry period, and high heat, is avoided. Indeed, we look after all the details – says Jadranko.

The fox population is impossible to count. But Jadranko explains, there are more and more, so it is logical that people sometimes come across cubs. Experts are clear. Wild animals, in principle it should be left alone.

– The first and basic things: check that the mother is nearby, and if they are small in the movement phase, they can be moved to a place where they are not endangered. The mother usually goes in search of food, and people think the cub has been left left, which is a rare case. If it is estimated that the cubs are good, that is, they move and breathe, they leave them for 12 or 24 hours, and if the mother does not appear, you should seek help – says Boras.

Citizens are associated with many bad situations, but the expert claims with them in principle – there is no.

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– The first thing people remember when they see a fox is a disease. But it has not been confirmed for the last 12 years thanks to oral vaccination. Their number is growing, which is why they see themselves in settlements because they are opportunistic animals by nature. We also know that there are large urban populations. Coexistence with them is completely possible to prove this case because the duo came from an urban environment – adds Boras.

The number of foxes increases, so for years, two hundred foxes pass through the recovery at the ZOO only under the supervision of Jadranka.

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– The cases we get, 70 percent have problems with the scab, it is a skin disease that exhausts them to the limit, and there is a cure for that, so one should not be afraid of but only to address the experts. They will know what to do because they are not just foxes in care, he has in the recovery of Vrana, hedgehogs, badgers, deer who were lucky and received professional help – concluded Veterinarian Boras.