Treating Mange in the Wild Without Capture of Contact

Treating Mange in the Wild Without Capture of Contact

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This protocol is proven to work well with foxes, coyotes, and raccoons.

Once you know where and when you can intercept the fox without any other animal nearby (because you’ve been logging the sightings), you put out the food bowl for a brief time during that window. I can not stress how important this is. Do not leave it out for long or every animal around will find it, which ruins the time and place for distributing the med later on because the wrong animal may consume the med. Only the fox may be permitted to find the food.

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Use a camera that automatically takes photos from motion sensing to monitor the food bowl.

Here’s what to start with:

  1. A cup of puppy kibble
  2. Some bits of meat from a rotisserie chicken
  3. One intact hardboiled egg with the shell removed

So long as the drug in question is one of the following and is dosed for the fox's weight (~15 pounds) you should be good to go. You will need 2 doses for each fox to be treated.

Most effective modern options: Isoxazolines (sarolaner, fluralaner, afoxolaner, lotilaner)

Simparica Trio -> Sarolaner Bravecto -> Fluralaner NexGard -> Afoxolaner Credelio -> Lotilaner

Do not use any other drugs - including Ivermectin or Selamectin (Revolution) - as they are not as effective.

Remember to put the fox on the schedule as we've discussed, and narrow down that schedule. Only have food out during the window that the fox comes, so that no other animal finds it. You need a positive confirmation exactly when the fox consumes the med, and that it was in fact the fox that consumed the med, so a camera is necessary.

After the "lock-in period" to get the fox on the schedule, and the med is administered via a hard-boiled egg or other food that will ensure all med is taken, keep the fox on the schedule to provide puppy kibble for nutrition for 3 weeks to improve its immune system, and then administer another med dose, before tapering off the food to end the protocol.

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