More of a scavanger/ small varment preditor. Perhaps if the cat got mixed up with a mother and pups, or was injured. Other than that, cats defend themselves better than say voles, mice, and in instances chickens. Final Starman stikes again!

They might, if they're hungry, and the cat is older or injured. As another poster said upstream, they have to catch the cat first... A coyote, on the other hand... no problem.

I myself came across this thread because I was worried about a fox outside my house. My own kitten was injured, and and it was outside. A fox had come up to my garden, and was calling very early in the evening. I found it a bit weird, and obviously ran out and took my cat inside. Tried to scare the fox off, too, but it didn't go far. Not letting my cat out anymore! :(

Loads of notices about missing cats on post-boxes,street light posts pretty much all the time around here (Brighton; south coast of the UK) Very disturbing.... Plenty of urban myths(?) about this Cats stolen for medical research Cats stolen to make gloves etc whatever the cause it's very worrying I keep my cat in at night as advised by wildlife groups as they do most of their killing then. But I'm worried he will rebel one day and stay out all night. So - no help to those seeking answers, sorry

They are typically scavangers but can be predatory if they are hungry. Better safe than sorry, bring the cat in at nite.

It's possible if its a smaller cat. I think they would have a problem with my cats though. Mine are very well fed, most weigh 18-22 pounds which is as much or even more than some foxes weigh. All of my cats except one are related and five are from the same litter and they have developed a "pride" or "pack" mentality. I didn't think domestic cats would do that but I have one dog who is 3 times as big but they will send one or two cats out to play with her and distract her while 4 or 5 of the others sneak up from behind and flank her, Then they all attack at once and beat the crap out of the poor dog. She is part pit bull by the way but still gives the cats a LOT of respect and wont act agressive towards them. Short answer though. A fox might be able to take a smaller cat on it's own but it would probably still be a tough battle. As someone else said though with a coyote all bets are off. Coyote's are much more aggressive.

A few days ago about 3am i witnessed a fight between a fox and the cat. By the time i reached outside the fox was eating the cat's intestines. I chased the fox away and it turned out that the cat was my neighbours. I always hear that foxes and cats 'avoid' each other- whatever that means- but I think that the fox must of being a hungry nursing mother.

Fox is an oppurtunistic animal. Eat about anything

Yes, and dinosaurs eat vegetables. And dogs eat monkeys when they can get them. Which they usually can.

I dont know about in the US, but foxes in England would not go near cats. They live on a diet of rabbit and have no need to chase such a speedy, quick witted animal let alone deal with it's savage teeth and claws. Foxes aren't much bigger than (domestic) cats themselves. Rabbits are much safer and easier.

They may try if they are very hungry they would normally go for Rabbits or Chickens which are much easier prey than cats. They will eat pretty much what they can get.

After hearing a fox barking in the lane at the back of my garden I knew my large white cat was out. I rushed out and called him he appeared shortly very frightened. I knew he had been in conflict with a fox I guess he must of used one of his 9 lives.

No, not unless the cat is already severely injured or deilitated. A fox weighs the same , often less than a cat and doesn't have the claws a cat has. Most cats will kick a foxes a** with no problem. I have worked with foxes for 30 years. If a cat is outside where any animal, suc as a fox can get it, it is more likely to be killed by a car, an owl, a hawk, a domestic dog or a pi$$ed off neighbor. Often the neighbors don't want your cat hanging around so they will trap it and haul it off to the SPCA. Bottom line is this: If you don't want your cat to come up missing, keep it indoors

Not unless the cat is dead or nearly dead. why are the cats outside in the first place, where cars, domestic dogs, owls, hawks and neighbors can kill them?

Possibly if the cat is a small kitten or near death. A fox isn't much of a predator, it's more of a scavenger and opportunist. They are about the same size and a cat is pretty vicious and not a scavenger. Then again, not even vultures will usually touch a dead cat on the road.

I have just looked out my window 3.30am and seen a fox chasing a small cat they were not playing it was clear it was after it, by the time i went out it had gone, So yes i believe foxes eat cats so keep your cats indoors at night i live in bradford

Foxes will definately eat cats. I have been keeping and breeding cats for over 20 years. I never had a problem with foxes until about 20 months. A kitten disappeared from the patio and snarling noises were heard. No hard evidence but a few days later my son was woken by snarling and struggling outside his window. He got up and saw the mother cat being shaken by a fox. He threw something and frightened the fox off but the cat's jaw was broken in 2 places and her shoulder muscle was badly damaged. She needed 3 operations at a cost of £300. This happened in early morning in June when it was light. The next summer we had kittens again with a different mother cat. This time a kitten disappeared from the kitchen after being snatched through the catflap while eating. I was out of the room so only heard and saw the cat family scatter. One kitten had gone afterwards though. A week later the kittens were in the garden when one got snatched again. My son gave chase and the kitten was dropped. She suffered spinal damage and was left paralysed. After careful nursing and hand feeding she managed to walk again in a very wobbly way. A month later the fox came back and attacked her mother. She wasn't eaten but left headless. I buried her but the fox dug her up. The final straw came this week when the young cat who had been paralysed was locked out by mistake for only an hour but disappeared, presumably fox snatched. My cats are kept indoors except when I am with them but the last few attacks have happened when the cats have managed to get out accidentally. The quality of life they were used to has worsened as they have to be kept in most of the time. I feel I can no longer give them the life I would like them to have because of foxes. I have now given up breeding because it has become too dangerous for the cats. My surviving cats live in a state of siege and I have been left devastated and traumatised.

First off, why are you breeding cats when there are so many unwanted cats everywhere? You should be neutering and spaying them instead of sotting back and watching them get picked off one by one by the FOX as you say! I do some TNR (trap,neuter,release) and feed these cat colonies afterwards and people like you whether in the states or out of the states are totally defeated everything that people like me are doing for the cat population. And of you are a BREEDER what are these bred cats doing outside? I have some fox around my home that I feed and medicate for mange. I have went to my wildlife person for the meds. Sometimes the fox and cats are very close to each other. The fox seems more afraid of the cats than vice versa. I'm sure it was a kitten or ailing cat, becausemy outside cats are at least the same size or larger than the fox. So, GET THE CATS AND KITTENS FIXED!!!!

yes they do. I hate foxes they are horrible, disturbing, vermin. Because they ate my cat. i saw that big, red, fox with black ears, tail, and feet dragging my cat off. to finish my cat off. When we drove home from the doctors appointment, we saw they big yellow-orange eyes glowing in front of the headlights, my cat got out two days before this and it was 8:00pm, we thought it could have been my cat but instead it was the fox that had eaten my poor baby. We chased him off and found my cat with it's abdomen cut open. We then the next day gave him a proper burriel and put all of his favorite things in the box with him so he could have those with him in heaven. We threw 4 roses in the hole and burried him. We said our last goodbyes. The next day we came back to the grave and the fox had burried up the box so we put rocks and logs on. But what i regret most was the last thing i said to him. i said i hate you because he did something that i was mad at him for and then he was gone. It's been, 5 monthes since and i'm still crying. It was my daughters cat and she was devistated. She had lots of problems and she really loved that cat and is some what depressed from it. We love that cat, his name is tango, we love tango so much. He was my daughters cat and she picked him out. Tango was also our very first cat as a family together. Rest in peace Tango, we love you.

yes they do. I hate foxes they are horrible, disturbing, vermin. Because they ate my cat. i saw that big, red, fox with black ears, tail, and feet dragging my cat off. to finish my cat off. When we drove home from the doctors appointment, we saw they big yellow-orange eyes glowing in front of the headlights, my cat got out two days before this and it was 8:00pm, we thought it could have been my cat but instead it was the fox that had eaten my poor baby. We chased him off and found my cat with it's abdomen cut open. We then the next day gave him a proper burriel and put all of his favorite things in the box with him so he could have those with him in heaven. We threw 4 roses in the hole and burried him. We said our last goodbyes. The next day we came back to the grave and the fox had burried up the box so we put rocks and logs on. But what i regret most was the last thing i said to him. i said i hate you because he did something that i was mad at him for and then he was gone. It's been, 5 monthes since and i'm still crying. It was my daughters cat and she was devistated. She had lots of problems and she really loved that cat and is some what depressed from it. We love that cat, his name is tango, we love tango so much. He was my daughters cat and she picked him out. Tango was also our very first cat as a family together. Rest in peace Tango, we love you.

never heard of that ... but i know that american mink kill kittens ... EVIL AMERICAN MINK

Foxes eat cats. But since foxes and cats can be comparable in size, it doesn't happen with high frequency. Coyotes are much more prone to prey on cats, since they hunt in packs, while foxes are often solitary.

I'm sure if they are hungry, they will eat whatever they can sink their little foxy teeth into.

I went to sleep around 2 am and the window was slightly opened because it was to warm, i was getting to sleep when i heard a very loud cat snarling noise so i got out of bed to look out the window to see two foxes sitting on the road they were looking for food. I watched them as they were fighting with each other i think one was female and the other male. I was worried that any of my cats were out side as they are in and out door cats.I had to go down stairs to count all my cats and kittens to make sure they were all safe. I didn't realise what foxes could do to other animals i didnt think they were as vicious as that i am now keeping my cats in at night so i dont need to worrying about them. I looked up the internet the next day and it said Domesticated cats and foxes normally ignore each other. My mum found a fox two days previous at the side of our house with a big black rat in it's mouth, God know's what else it could catch. So keep your cat's and other animals in at night.

Yes, they surely will if they can. Today I was sitting on my couch watching tv at about 9:00 pm when I heard some odd door-slamming sounds coming from my porch. I went to investigate and as soon as I turned on the light, I saw my cat running from the door into the house and I could hear the faint sound of a running fox sprinting away from my porch. I know it was a fox because I have recently noticed a new one patrolling my neighborhood, often with a rabbit or squirrel in it's mouth. My screen door was ripped and it will require some repair, but my cat wasn't injured. In fact, as soon as I brought him back inside, he was frantically trying to go back out on the porch to fight the fox some more. Obviously the dang fox was trying to eat/attack my cat and I'm sure that if I let him out on the porch any more the fox will return and try to break through the door again. By the way, my cat is gigantic. He is a big boy with a very gentle attitude, so it surprised me when he was trying to go back outside to try to tear that fox to pieces. He is hard to lift up sometimes because of how big he is. I don't even feed him that much food, so it is unclear to me why he is so huge. This fox was definitely a hardcore predator. When I saw him the other day he looked like a humungous red labrador. His long black legs and black ears were just enormous, so I'm wondering whether or not he might be some kind of a cross-breed between a wolf pumped up on sterroids and some kind of super fox, idk. What I do know is that this fox is not some ordinary scavenger, and he went through the trouble to break through my porch door to eat my cat. I doubt he did it because he was starving, since I have seen him eating plenty of animals off in the woods behind my house. If he eats my cat, it will be the last thing he ever does.

they will but I wish they didn't.