Why do Red Foxes look so different from winter to summer? 🦊 This is a commonly asked question. To simply put, it’s fur. Red Foxes are mammals that go through a molting process, molting in mammals is the “shedding of fur, hair, or wool” In the cooler fall and cold winter months foxes grow a very thick fur coat, which protects them from the harsh weather conditions. Red Foxes can withstand temperatures as low as -40F/C. Then in the spring as the weather begins to warm up they begin the molting of