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Previously on "Fox hunting"

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  • northernladyuk
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    I dunno though. Trying too hard to make a silk purse out of sow's ear, by educating a kid beyond their modest natural academic ability, can cause all kinds of problems!
    Thank the Lord nobody attempted that with you.

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  • BrilloPad
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    Most foxes won’t vote Labour because Jeremy Corbyn ‘just not credible as a leader’

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    And yet your own username advocates that we should kill them and Wear The Fox Hat.
    Ignore him. He's a mod. "Do as we say. Not as we do".

    Any more insults, and if the wind is blowing from the NE, you could face a ban...

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    I've got videos of foxes in our garden. They have never touched our chickens.
    But don't let that fact affect your emotional opinion.
    And yet your own username advocates that we should kill them and Wear The Fox Hat.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by SueEllen View Post
    Well everyone likes a KFC.

    There are less foxes in my area thanks to wheelie bins.
    You put them in the wheelie bins? Like that lady with the cat?

    More seriously, is it badgers that can get into wheelie bins? We used to have badgers visit our garden and while they were gorgeous, I recall it being actually quite hard to effectively badger-proof a bin. That may have been before wheelie bins were the norm though.

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by WTFH View Post
    I've got videos of foxes in our garden. They have never touched our chickens.
    But don't let that fact affect your emotional opinion.
    I certainly won't let one datapoint affect my opinion based on growing up in the countryside and knowing that foxes like chickens and will enact a bloody massacre if they get the chance. I don't feel emotional about foxes.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    ...

    Oh yes - and caning in schools. Especially for the thick kids. It never did sasguru any harm ....
    I dunno though. Trying too hard to make a silk purse out of sow's ear, by educating a kid beyond their modest natural academic ability, can cause all kinds of problems!
    Last edited by OwlHoot; 10 May 2017, 12:52.

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  • SueEllen
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    Originally posted by malvolio View Post
    Don't know if any of you have noticed but fox hunting still happens and the foxes still die. It's just they are shot rather than left to the hounds. Although the biggest killer of foxes are cars, with a huge percentage of foxes not reaching two years of age.

    [B]Also worth remembering we didn't have a problem with urban foxes until quite recently. Can't imagine why.[/]

    I don't have a problem with fox hunting (I used to shoot them myself in my youth, working the farms) but I do have a problem with the Hunt and their assumption of supremacy, but that's a different issue altogether
    Well everyone likes a KFC.

    There are less foxes in my area thanks to wheelie bins.

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  • WTFH
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    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
    They have babies so they're lovely? Do you think a picture of one going through your bin or tearing your chicken to bloody shreds would be equally cute?
    I've got videos of foxes in our garden. They have never touched our chickens.
    But don't let that fact affect your emotional opinion.

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  • d000hg
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    Yeah, it's meant to be culling for a purpose because they ARE a problem unchecked. But torturing them to death and ripping them to pieces is a different matter.

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  • malvolio
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    Don't know if any of you have noticed but fox hunting still happens and the foxes still die. It's just they are shot rather than left to the hounds. Although the biggest killer of foxes are cars, with a huge percentage of foxes not reaching two years of age.

    Also worth remembering we didn't have a problem with urban foxes until quite recently. Can't imagine why.

    I don't have a problem with fox hunting (I used to shoot them myself in my youth, working the farms) but I do have a problem with the Hunt and their assumption of supremacy, but that's a different issue altogether

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Bee View Post
    It means to kill these lovely creatures who control the pests, like rats, squirrels, etc...? Jesus Christ!!

    They have babies so they're lovely? Do you think a picture of one going through your bin or tearing your chicken to bloody shreds would be equally cute?

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  • shaunbhoy
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    Originally posted by Whorty View Post
    Thanks for pointing out the obvious in the stats that I missed as, like most of my snowflake generation, I was too busy taking photos of my dinner to send to my friends to do more than pass a cursory glance at the facts. By the way, did I ever mention that I know EXACTLY how I would react in a life or death situation because I once disturbed an acne-ridden burglar?
    ftfy

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Pip in a Poke View Post
    I have mixed views on this one.
    One for each personality? The sockie master and the sockie....

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  • BrilloPad
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    Can we bring back bear fighting and slavery while we are at it?

    I was hoping Brexit would leave to the UK expanding there horizons beyond the EU and looking forwards...

    Oh yes - and caning in schools. Especially for the thick kids. It never did sasguru any harm....

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