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Most foxes live 2 to 3 years but can survive for up to 10 years, or even longer, in captivity. With most species roughly the size of a domestic cat, foxes are smaller than other members of the family candiae, such as wolves, jackals, and domestic dogs. A fox den is that the dirt excavated from the hole will be kicked out backwards, without much regard to placement. While a fox digs dirt like a dog, a groundhog will pat it neatly into a mound. The red fox prefer diverse habitat consisting of cropland, rolling farmland, brush, pastures, mixed hardwoods, and edges of open areas that provide suitable hunting grounds. Chaparral, wooded areas and among boulders on the slopes of rocky ridges in canyons and open desert. Red foxes live in forests or temperate biomes. Red fox are in nearly every county of New York State and in many of the open spaces and parks of our cities and suburbs. Though red foxes prefer the pastures and meadows of farming country, they also are found in woodlands. Indeed they seem to prefer dens in forests or woodlots over those in open country. Red foxes are solitary hunters who feed on rodents, rabbits, birds, and other small game but their diet can be as flexible as their home habitat. Foxes will eat fruit and vegetables, fish, frogs, and even worms. If living among humans, foxes will opportunistically dine on garbage and pet food. They den in hollow logs, beneath boulders, in ground burrows, or in hillsides.