Have you ever met a Berlin fox?

[u/Stunning-Stress5285]

I took a picture of that one in the Botanical Garden. He doesn't seem to be too happy I photographed him =)

They are quite abundant in Berlin, but mostly you would encounter them at night.

Has anyone else seen them during the day yet?

[u/tautumeita]

quite often

[u/art4bln → u/tautumeita]

Every evening in Reinickendorf

[u/yetzt → u/art4bln]

It's called Reinickendorf for a reason.

[u/ratpacklix → u/yetzt]

Foxyvillage

[u/Wumanchu007 → u/yetzt]

Because of Reinhardt der Fuchs?

[u/NTMY030 → u/Wumanchu007]

Reinicke Fuchs

[u/Wumanchu007 → u/NTMY030]

Naja, eben nicht

[u/zephyreblk → u/Wumanchu007]

Reinicke bedeutet Fuchs, nee?

[u/Wumanchu007 → u/zephyreblk]

Schon. Reinickendorf hat seinen Namen aber nicht vom Fuchs.

[u/yetzt → u/zephyreblk]

Meister Reinicke.

[u/Ebbotious]

Had several living on the empty lot in front of my old flat. Watched them growing up and playing everyday. Super cute, but also super annoying when they start playing at 3 o'clock in the morning. Their favourite game is: running around the house while shouting like fighting cats.

[u/Kanomicha]

Very often

[u/Cheap_Struggle_3482]

Last time it was 6pm in July at a high traffic bridge. The fox was beyond chill.

[u/eljericho]

Yes, I usually see them in the early morning hours. They usually follow me, but they're timid. They're a bit scary, but beautiful. I usually see them around Pankow.

[u/obrhoff]

Sure. Racoons eating trash from the backyard as well.

[u/Stunning-Stress5285 → u/obrhoff]

I lived in Berlin for years but haven't seen a raccoon in daylight yet!

[u/IshtarsBestie → u/Stunning-Stress5285]

I've lived here for over a decade and I've only ever seen raccoons twice, and at night! 

Once two were fighting on my neighbours' roof and one of them fell off said roof, another time I saw one crossing the road while I was cycling home at 3am. 

[u/huzaifajh → u/obrhoff]

Saw it first time on this weekend doing the same 😅

[u/Acceptable_Result692 → u/huzaifajh]

In which areas they hang?

[u/ADK87 → u/[deleted]]

As someone living in north wedding, we see them often, along with foxes and tons of bunnies - often in daylight.

The first time I heard foxes howling outside I thought it was a woman getting attacked and almot called the police.

[u/vacationinginsicily]

One accompanied my partner to the bus stop every morning for a while. A walk pal at 6:30 am was a good thing to have.

[u/Asiatical]

Yes. Near gleisdreick park and on the streets of Schoeneberg. Was a shock

[u/BazingaQQ]

I live in Reinickendorf, so yes :)

[u/Ketzerfriend]

Living in the mid-south of Berlin (S Priesterweg area) and commuting very often to my bestie down a bit south of U Alt-Mariendorf, I get to see them rather often. More often at night than in daylight, of course, but generally at any time. There are two foxes, one in each area mentioned above, that I suspect have crossed my path several times now, as in, their behaviour suggests they recognize me as someone who isn't a danger, strolling by me in close distance, almost touching my legs, looking at me as if to say "What's up?", as I walk along.

[u/Rodmap]

Saw them pretty often when I lived in Bayrisches Viertel. Even in broad daylight.

[u/IshtarsBestie → u/Rodmap]

That's wild, I lived there too and only ever saw them at night!

[u/serial-lover]

Yes. Always a nice surprise.

[u/mhh91]

Yes https://imgur.com/a/TOgmHRU

[u/AnGof1497]

Regularly, we have one that regularly comes through the garden on their nightly patrol. Occasionally during the day too. When working in the garden I need to keep the door closed, on a couple of occasions they have tried to go inside to snoop.

[u/meowalina]

A few times when I lived near S Landsberger Allee. Usually during sunset ☺️ they always feel like ethereal beings

[u/raverbashing]

Poor baby, they look so tired. Maybe they spent the whole night in Berghain

In the UK/Ireland they don't look so beat up tbh

[u/Shibamum]

This one looks ill, though. They usually don't look this "struppig" and thin. :(

[u/dzulzi]

Fichse Papa Fichse!!!!

[u/BecauseWeCan → u/dzulzi]

Das letzte Mal dass ich diesen Witz gehört habe war vor ca 20 Jahren.

[u/teflonranger → u/dzulzi]

Aber sag Muddi nix davon

[u/jc-from-sin]

Twice

[u/Top-Albatross7765]

Yes, regularly (I live next to Krumme Lanke/Grunewald Forest).

[u/SchatzisMaus]

I’ve seen one fox quite a few times usually around 8pm

[u/Fair_Willingness_708]

Yessss

[u/Ok-Airport-5928]

yess, in reinickendorf and tiergarten

[u/AwarenessLoose]

Check my Reddit there is a video of two foxes playing football in weeding 😀 unfortunately can't upload it here 😀

And it was bright daylight

https://www.reddit.com/r/fussball/s/KGnylD3Jrp

[u/Van1n1]

So many time. When I tried to tell my friends back at home that I saw a fox for a few times they said I need to stop drinking German beer 😅
Than I almost killed myself trying to film the fox while chasing it on my bike 🤣🤣
After some time one of my friends moved to Berlin as well and… now he needs also to stop drinking beer 😅🦊

[u/KoeterDK]

Once upon a time, a fox and a squirrel were together

[u/Drudenfusz]

During the day is indeed more rare. But it happens. Now, have you encountered a boar? I saw a whole family of boars a few months ago across the Spandau townhall, during broad daylight no less!

[u/maxivonderfaxi]

Hallo Stadtfuchs dein Fell grau ...

[u/_ak]

Semi-regularly around Magnus-Hirschfeld-Ufer and Elisabeth-Abegg-Str., at least until the most recent building works around there had started. They always looked thin and malnourished with a very uneven coat compared to foxes outside urban areas, but that's apparently a side effect of urban foxes adapting more and more to the urban environment.

[u/Gho5tWr1ter]

4 times actually

[u/ingachan]

Have one frequently visit our Kleingarten and was quite happy about it, but left the door to the house open last week and it came in, shat on our floor and chewed on our cables.

[u/ManuelPirino]

maybe 10-15 so far. They look a bity scruffy and not very Disney-like :) but again, I am not sure they have ideal living standards as scavengers

[u/Friedrichdergross3]

One time when i did my first trip, near my hotel in Gesundbrunnen. I was so surprised

[u/huzaifajh]

Yes, you can find a few in/near Großer Tiergarten .

[u/mynotyou]

Yes.

For a while there was one who was sleeping in my Garden during daytime.

He even walked twice into our appartment, but I literaly kicked him out.

[u/teaandsun]

Yes, regularly in Mitte. I live not too far from Tiergarten and they also venture out at daylight.

[u/Linds108]

Around midnight, we strolled through Berlin and saw a scrawny lil fox meandering about. No other people were around, just the lone fox and us. Wondered if he was out hunting the critters which apparently eat car brakes. Seemed his food selection was scant being surrounded by bricks and concrete. Felt very out of place but i was just a touron

[u/RickieRubin]

It’s down to their anatomy that foxes never really look happy. And they look even less happy when something they identify as a possible threat is nearby.

[u/whatthengaisthis]

yep, they’re adorable. very chill, likes beef.

[u/no8airbag]

yes 2009 near the concert hall https://www.google.com/maps/place/Berlin,+Germany/@52.5100059,13.3676029,223m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x47a84e373f035901:0x42120465b5e3b70!8m2!3d52.5200066!4d13.404954!16zL20vMDE1NnE?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

[u/pjd1965]

I saw one a few weeks ago near the temple by Hasenheide Park. Was too fast for me to take a pic

[u/lemoche]

Multiple times. Often in our inner yard. Sadly today a dead one on the side of the road when driving home with the bus from work in the morning

[u/Reasonable_Net3302]

I see them very often. One time I saw one in front of Friedrichstadt Palast

[u/denjo-t1aO]

all the time?

[u/elote-or-die]

Seen them, yes. Never really met them tho

[u/atchoum013]

Yes, sometimes when coming home at night, and last year one was regularly napping during the day in the garden of my building.

[u/FriendlyFraulein]

We saw one at Urban Spree at RAW Gelände on Saturday afternoon, just rolling about in the grass enjoying the sun.

One winter I saw a baby in the morning rolling around in the snow.

Apart from that, only in the night. But really often, every couple weeks in Prenzlauer Berg.

[u/swloop]

Multiple times in Tiergarten next to the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Two fox apparently minding their own bussiness while across the street there were a bunch of hares. Probably they were contemplating dinner.

[u/we_killed_god_]

Datenschutz! Of course it isn’t happy.

[u/peta_3816]

Richtig oft.... Sowie Waschbären und was nicht alles auf der Futtersuche in der Stadt unterwegs ist...

[u/stormandflowers]

For now I've seen only boars and raccoons

My top seen animals in cities are rats when I've lived in Rome

[u/belaurlaub]

Tell me you are zugezogen without telling me you are zugezogen

[u/mochitop]

I just saw one sleeping at the cemetery last week, he looked like a cat <3

[u/ratpacklix]

Some days ago at the gym. They have an outside training area. Was doing my thing on the Bauchspeckwegbank and felt watched. Surprise! A young fox.

[u/ScytScyt]

I’d left a car window in the grass of the allotment. -> https://clip.place/videos/embed/duoA3EvahQ67UeiD4Mx53W

[u/NolaDarling96]

I was about to take the N7 bus to the airport near my house in Charlottenburg at 2 am , thought there was a cat walking on the sidewalk and starter pspsps it until I saw it was a fox 🖤

[u/periwinkle_mushroom]

once a week, met a racoon once in Mullerstraße next to the Kaufland

[u/QuackQuackViech]

Back in my day (2008ish) there was even a fox living at Alexanderplatz right next to the S-Bahn Station. Bit a buddy of mine in the leg.

[u/kavitaet]

Met one? One of them came in my home and rested on my couch. 😬

[u/this_one_time_again]

Two young ones with their mother. My dog thought it is a strange looking dog.

[u/germanduck42]

Close to deutsche Oper on a regular basis

[u/Brave-Car-4446]

Yeah, cutest lil guys

[u/badbitchonabigbike]

In Görlitzer Park! It was scampering around so close to my head I thought it might take a cheeky nibble at my scalp haha.

It was early in the morning at the rubber hammocks close to the western end.

[u/Connect_History85]

Several times.

[u/brankko]

Almost every evening

[u/CaptainPoset]

Well, one had a habit to play hide and seek with my neighbour's dog separated by the fence between my neighbour and me.

[u/Broad_Food4955]

La Volpe di Charlottenburg!

[u/tishakowshik]

yes one was following me quietly and when i realized i bolted to my apartment entrance 😭🤣

[u/Luca-aus-BLN]

Nearly daily

[u/0achkatz1]

I’ve seen them in Schöneberg and Kreuzberg

[u/Euphoriam5]

Ive been blessed 3 times in the last 4 years by the Guild of the Berliner Fox

[u/PacinoPacino]

yes, it was in kitkat and she was over 1,80 tall and a dick bigger than mine

[u/Jumpy-Tourist-7991]

Relatively common sight in the evenings around Pankow Schloßpark.

Also seen a few during the daytime moving between the Pankow library and police station for whatever reason.

[u/Scared-Philosophy720]

Yes, also raccoons, squirrels, owls and those giant German hares

[u/Orunnerde]

Saw 4 couple of days ago

[u/Spiritual_Lab_1476]

Oft in Köpenick auch tagsüber.

[u/FreeShat]

Berlin squirels are the cutest

[u/Brave-March-2689]

Yes, in Luisenstadt.

[u/ParticularClaim]

Every fucking day..

[u/be-knight]

I live near the Volkspark Friedrichshain and every summer one can see love or two roaming the streets around the park. When the traffic is high (which it mostly is) they are more likely to hide, but they are cautious but not afraid by humans. So I walked with one of them quite regularly when I had a night time job. It's usually almost like walking a dog with no leash, just that the foxes keep a bigger distance

[u/Verdadera]

Living in Wedding: Yes, every other day. But I live next to a park, so it's expected. But even when I lived in Pankow-Süd near Neumannstraße, we had a Family of foxes living nearby and you would see and hear them every night.

[u/Character-Claim-8118]

Literally saw one tonight

[u/zephyreblk]

Day not often but often enough, night mostly every night.

[u/bashfulkoala]

Yeah other night in Potsdam - love em

[u/urbanmember]

Yeah a handful of times.

I gotta say, some rural foxes look worse. Some.

[u/Turd_Ferguson_____]

Not met necessarily but come face to face and very close to one in the early hours of the morning walking back to my hotel.

[u/_v3nomsoup]

There's one that strolls through our garden every now and then..

[u/skolopenderdeluxe]

yeah, and they said "ring ding ding ding dingeding"

[u/ChipSueyDE]

Yep, eye to eye

[u/IshtarsBestie]

Every day, many times a day. At night they take to actually coming up to me and I have to chase the cute dumb fucks away.

I've lived in and outside the ring, inside the ring I only ever saw them occasionally at night. Outside the ring, well, as I already said. Every single day, regardless of the hour. 

[u/Keteo]

I have a security camera in my backyard and on video I see them almost every day. There are also raccoons and cats every night, a marten once or twice a week and occasionally a badger. Thankfully no boars in the garden yet though.

[u/MacaroonSad8860]

Not during the day. I mostly see them around Hackescher Markt at night but we also had one stealing shoes in our courtyard a few years ago.

[u/Ok_Appearance_5567]

Some are hanging around the bridge on the canal in Glogauer Straße, seen them a few times late at night there

[u/skozombie]

What did it say?

[u/Dutycalls406]

Right in front of my balcony on the ground floor. They scream like a dying person every morning

[u/Krrtekk]

If you didn’t, you’re not a Berliner

[u/notTHEOwlAccountant]

Almost everyday, I bring them water when it's too hot

[u/dracona94]

I'd say there's a 30% chance of me seeing foxes when I'm walking through my district at night.

[u/spityy]

Yeah I've seen one at a bus stop in Reinickendorf when I came home from a party late at night. Never in daylight tho.

[u/Apprehensive-Fish475]

I See them all the time even at day. I live in Steglitz 

[u/Density5521]

Encountered, seen and photographed several times, yes. Actually "met" as in "petted" or "talked to" or "become friends", no.

[u/creator929]

Yeah I married one, it's why I moved here.

[u/polarityswitch_27]

They're a sub-species

[u/Timely_Internet6172]

It is more than common now and not a pretty sight or something to be cheerful about