Staff? I can refuse to buy him food and lock him in the house, what is he gonna do then? He'll mew at me until I relent or he'll die. Those are his only options.
It wouldn't. It would climb the nearest tree or wall and wait until the fox, foxtrots off. Soooo hard. Tabby cat, the first genuinely embarassing entrant into this illustrious competition that I can recall. It has literally no redeeming qualities as a hard creature.