How to feed a fox (and not insult him)

Cat food-

It was a great idea.
Full of protein and cheaper than chicken and steak.

Mix it with some wet cat food and volia! It'd be like Top Chef Animals. (anyone from Bravo reading?)



But no.

It didn't work.

It didn't work so much in fact that the cat food sat dormant on the steps for a solid three days.
At first I thought- hmmm Ash didn't show that night (the first night I put the cat concoction out)
Of course when I woke up the next morning and saw that it was untouched I went thru all the possibilities of why he didn't come. It was thunderstormy, it was a bit cool, it was a full moon. Anything except "he didn't like it?"

So the next night I left the cat food in the dish and put some hotdogs on top of it.

The next morning the hot dogs were gone, and the cat concoction untouched- still.

So last night, being Ash's med night I emptied the cat food out (next to the steps like a good farmer would- why waste the energy walking across the field to dump it in the woods?) and I put his favorable hotdogs in his dish with the cat food dumped on the side of the steps.

And this is what happened-

Not only did he come an eat his hotdogs, but he later came back and reclaimed his now aged cat concoction.

Lesson learned.

When feeding a Fox whose palate has been trained on warmed cooked chicken, grilled steak and 88 cent hotdogs, how dare I try and feed him mere cat food.

If attempting to feed a Fox the dish of cat concoction (wet and dried cat food mixed together) please allow it to age a matter of three non Fox days. Or in Fox time 4 and 1/2 weeks later.