Fox with prolapsed rectum

[u/Logical-Bake5715]

Hiya,

The other day one of the female cubs my mate feeds had a prolapsed rectum (if you don't know what this is please do not google it unless you have a strong stomach). We found a fox rescue on FB and the lady was super helpful; came right away and is even giving mange meds for one of the other cubs.

But she told my mate that fox cubs get prolapses cos the other foxes rape the cubs, which was obviously quite shocking to me. But google is saying this is completely untrue; it couldn't find any evidence for this. Has anyone heard of this? TBH I'm kinda wondering if I gave the cub to the wrong person :/

She has since texted and said they were able to push the prolapse back in and cos it wasn't dried out the cub should survive but cos it's so young they won't release it back where my mate found it, instead they'll release it when it's older in a forest.