He saved fox and gained daily company by having dinner in a village in Bragança

A inhabitant of a village in Bragança gained a company for dinner after saving a fox that now visits him every day at home to eat and returns to the wild after the meal.

Fernando Almeida has been sharing photos and videos on social networks of this unexpected relationship with the wild animal that literally enters his house, eats from his hand and even shares the feeder with other domestic animals, like two cats.

Fernando lives next to the road in the village of Oleiros, near the city of Bragança, and told Lusa that the story of this relationship began in November, when he was driving and saw a fox prostrate on the road.

He suspects that “he must have been hit by a car, because he had no visible injuries, he must have been bored”.

He took the animal home and fed it “for four or five days, until it got well, started walking and left”.

“Suddenly, she disappeared there for about 15 days,” she said, and was missing until, one night, Fernando Almeida was watching a movie in the kitchen and was startled to see a figure in the window where he usually puts food for cats.

After all, it was the fox that had returned and, “from there, he returns every day at dinner time and does not leave” until Fernando feeds him.

“It seems that you know the noise of the van, when I arrive, it appears”, he emphasized, in relation to the punctuality of the animal when Fernando arrives home after the day of work.

The fox eats, “it is there and then it disappears until the next day”.

The proximity between them even allows the animal to eat from the hand of this man, who has already taken a bite excused by the voracity with which the fox throws himself at the food.

Fernando told Lusa that he started to buy meat on purpose or collected the so-called cuttings from the butchers for the fox.

“She is crazy about chicken,” he says.

Fernando also observes the behavior of the fox that eats at the place where he puts his food, but he also picks up and “takes four or five pieces in his mouth, he doesn’t know where, and he goes back to continue eating”.

“I don’t know if it takes to keep”, he asks.

It may even be “a fox”, but Fernando called her “Linda” and guarantees that when he calls her by name she responds.

And just as it appears, it disappears to the mountain until the next hour of dinner, because, as Fernando pointed out, “she is wild, she is not trapped”.

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