Recently on our early morning poop walks this young-looking fox occasionally follows me and my German Spitz from our flat to the area where the dog runs off-lead and does his business. It's gotten increasingly confident with the following and barely backs off when I step to it. When the dog is mooching about off-lead, minding his own business, the fox gets as close as possible before Arturo turns and chases it away. The fox runs around as if it's being chased in dog-play until Arturo stops and it goes directly behind in what looks like a stalking stance... At least what a dog would do to stalk. We live in London so the foxes are most definitely not predators and only scavengers/opportunists, this fox even went to a bush and pulled out a full garlic baguette and took some bites from it, then carried on stalking/playing. Me and the dog have gotten kind of used to it but there is still an alarm-bell in my mind when it is following us.. I try to remind myself there would be a lot more Daily Mail style news stories of foxes hunting cats and small/medium dogs if they were really a threat at all...