MANGE IN FOXES. 09 



resembles a cross between a monkey and a rat, 

 on a large scale, is a loathsome and miserable 

 spectacle. 



This skin disease is very catching, and the 

 earths used by mangy foxes will, as I said 

 before, infect others for a considerable length of 

 time, and should therefore always be done away 

 with. 



Cubs of mangy parents, however slightly one 

 or both may be affected, invariably get the 

 disease, and, although in many cases it may not 

 show itself until they are nearly full grown, I 

 have never known an instance when they have 

 escaped altogether, or a fox once mangy to 

 become healthy again. They go from bad to 

 worse, and it kills them in the end. 



The other kind of mange is that w^hich, in a 

 more or less aggravated form, is transmitted by 

 diseased parents to their cubs, and being in 

 the blood it kills the victims much more quickly 

 than the skin disease. It generally does not 

 appear until the cubs are well grown, and then 

 develops with great rapidity. 



Starting just across the fox's loins the flesh 

 rots away underneath the skin, which becomes 

 a thick scab, and in very bad cases a mass of 



