 In the UK, hunting red foxes in urban areas is banned, and shooting them in an urban environment is not suitable.One alternative to hunting urban red foxes has been to trap them, which appears to be a more viable method.However, killing foxes has little effect on the population in an urban area; those that are killed are very soon replaced, either by new kits during the breeding season or by other red foxes moving into the territory of those that were killed.