Getting rid of the fox is a Texas thing.
Texans seem to like to be in control of who lives when and where. If they do not like then off it goes.
I have fox and coyotes in our neighborhood. There are plenty of children, cats and dogs running around, yet not one single report of a coyote or a fox doing any harm to any of them. It's not to say that if I had a pen full of chickens that they would not become victims to them. A cage full of birds is begging for to become a meal. My family owns a game farm and we keep hundreds of birds in pens to be released. You just have to have a strong fence so that they do not become prey while enclosed. We have never once killed the fox or coyotes at the game club either.