Employees of the Richmond Wildlife Center are doing their best to act like mother foxes in interactions with an orphaned kit that found her way into their care. In a video posted to the center’s Facebook page Tuesday, Executive Director Melissa Stanley is shown wearing a red fox mask and rubber gloves while feeding the kit from a syringe. The kit sits on top of a large stuffed animal fox that is supposed to look like her mother, Stanley said. A Facebook post explained why staff are wearing the mask to feed her, minimizing human sounds, creating visual barriers and taking other precautions. “It’s important to make sure that the orphans that are raised in captivity do not become imprinted upon or habituated to humans,” the post said. All those measures make it more likely the kit could be reintroduced into the wild someday. Stanley said in an interview Tuesday that the kit was admitted to the wildlife center on Feb. 29 after a man walking his dog found her in an alley in Richmond. Thinking she was a kitten, he turned her over to the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. She was less than 24 hours old and her umbilical stump was still attached. The fox kit will be transferred to the Animal Education and Rescue Organization, which plans to eventually release the kits back into the wild together.