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It’s an adorable box of foxes!
The newborn mammals were stashed in a cardboard box next to a clothing donation bin in Pennsylvania when they were found by a local woman.
The cubs were then handed over to the Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Educational Center in Stroudsburg, Pa., where they’re being nursed back to health.
The baby foxes – five boys known as dogs and two girls called vixens – were about 10 days old and weighed around 6 ounces, according to Barcroft Media.
The roughly 10-day-old fox cubs are being nursed back to health at the Pocono Wildlife Rehabilitation and Educational Center in Stroudsburg, PaBarcroftThey were dehydrated but otherwise OK.
“We had to give them rabies vaccinations and feed them fox milk,” said center director Katherine Uhler.
“We gave them Pedialyte fluids first then mixed a quart of Fox Valley formula which is designed specifically for baby wild foxes.”
They’ll eventually start eating out a bowl.
“We bottle feed them until they are a little bigger, then they’ll start feeding out of the bowl,” Uhler said.
“When they’re finished feeding out of the bowl then we’ll start feeding them what they eat in the wild which is meat, and some vegetables and fruits.”
The red foxes are so young, they’re not even red yet.
“We know they’re red foxes because even though they’re not red yet, they still have this little white tail,” Uhler said.
It’ll cost about $1,000 to care for the foxes, who will be released into the wild in July.
