The book ends with the indication the three will be waiting forever. Meanwhile Boggis, Bunce and Bean keep guard on the tunnel entrance in pouring rain, unaware that Mr Fox and his friends are stealing under their noses.

Mr Fox, feeling responsible for the whole affair, invites the other animals to a feast made from the loot and they all decide to make an underground town where they will be safe, while low key stealing legit all the food from the farmers. They also raid Bunce's storehouse of ducks, geese and vegetables and Bean's underground cellar of apple cider (although they are, at first, stopped by Rat, who rudely tells them it is *his* place, and that their intrusion will get them all killed if anyone, including Bean's maid, Mabel, catches them there).Īlong the way they meet Badger and other digging animals who are also starving (and according to the former, may quite possibly be the farmers' next targets). There they steal some chickens and depart without leaving any sign of their presence there.

He and his children dig further on and end up in Boggis' number one chicken house. Even worse is when their neighbors come to see all the hullabaloo, and laugh at them for their persistence.Įnraged and humiliated, the three men therefore decide to play a waiting game, keeping watch on the entrance to the tunnel with shotguns at the ready, while their men patrol the area to make sure the foxes don't escape.Īfter three days of starving, Mr Fox comes up with a plan.

The farmers even resort to using bulldozers in order to dig deeper into the ground, but to no avail. Fox, the triumvirate devise a plan to ambush him as he leaves his burrow, but they succeed only in shooting off his tail.ĭetermined to catch him, the farmers use spades and shovels to dig their way into the foxes' home, but Mr and Mrs Fox and their four children started digging a tunnel deeper into the ground and manage to escape. In order to feed his family, he makes nightly visits to farms owned by three wicked, rude, cruel and dim-witted farmers named Boggis, Bunce and Bean, whereupon he seizes the livestock available on each man's farm. Fox is an anthropomorphic, tricky, and clever fox who lives underground beside a tree with his wife and four children.

Fantastic mr fox quentin blake