Reply to: Time to bring back foxhunting?

[Bagpuss]

Nonsense, total nonsense.

In your opinion as a computer programmer which we know from this site is the key to all knowledge and expertise in everything ever.

[minestrone]

Fox hunting is partially to blame for the rise of the urban Fox.

Nonsense, total nonsense.

[Bagpuss]

Twin girls in hospital after fox attack at London home - Telegraph

Blasted vermin keep digging holes in my garden.

Being torn apart by hounds is too good for 'em.

Fox hunting is partially to blame for the rise of the urban Fox. Anecdotally I have a friend who was a farmer for 30 years or so, while talking about this attack and he didn't recognise the MO. He told me that in all the time he worked the land he only once heard of a fox attacking chickens and the like. Quite often they fed on lame or weak rabbits. What we are seeing now is the effect of man pushing the fox out of it's rural environment largely through urbanisation, obviously chasing the fox out of the countryside has not helped.

The urban Fox is becoming a totally different species, Fox Hunting with hounds certainly isn't going to help its demise.

[Drewster]

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B I L L Y B I R O = B R I L L O Y I B

Is a yib a type of scouring pad?

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Good Spot!!!

BrilloYesI'mBack

Hello Brillo

[Platypus]

BillyBiro.... Don't tell me just a long time lurker who just decided to register and get in on this thread....

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B I L L Y B I R O = B R I L L O Y I B

Is a yib a type of scouring pad?

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[minestrone]

A quick google and you can pick up quite a few similar stories.

You can also find claims that the Tories have made up the latest story to get fox hunting legalised/decriminalised.

[Gonzo]

It’s very unusual fox behaviour.

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For the rural foxes I would agree but the urban ones are a different proposition.

This article about them from four years ago mentions reports of them entering houses and biting children, although it does not have any specific examples to support this.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/foxes-london.ht>ml

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It was probably him.

Tale of the crack fox (NSFW)

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[Churchill]

I'm still having problems with the chamaeleon circuit.

Most embarassing.

Cure your incontinence or waterproof the electronics, simples...

[norrahe]

During what passes for my breakfast these days, foxy observed running up my garden path.

Got to the "patio" & suddenly saw me looking at it through the window.

Cue exit at great rate.

I'm not surprised, he's not used to green scaly things

[Paddy]

I feel saddened for the poor kids that were mauled, but I can’t seem to override my suspicions about this case. It’s very unusual fox behaviour. It all seems a bit McCann like. Does the family have a dog?

[Drewster]

And while we're at it, can we include idiotic humans?

Oh Well done......

BillyBiro.... Don't tell me just a long time lurker who just decided to register and get in on this thread....

"Billy" may I be the first to welcome you to our esteemed forum...... I am sure it will be a pleasure knowing you for may years to come.

[billybiro]

What about homosapiens?

Can we extend this cull to cats?

And while we're at it, can we include idiotic humans?

[minestrone]

Next door's old cat had to be buried 3 times coz the foxes kept digging the poor old thing up.

You sure it was not a rabbit?

[Churchill]

Why are they digging holes in my garden?

I haven't buried any bodies there.

Er.

Recently anyway.

Apart from the ZeitMog & she's cunningly buried in the greenhouse where the foxes can't get at her.

Next door's old cat had to be buried 3 times coz the foxes kept digging the poor old thing up.

They(the foxes) can probably hear rabbits/moles etc scurrying about under the surface. A bit like arctic foxes can hear animals below the snow and ice.

[Churchill]

There will still be matter on the bones of some of these graves. Even after 150 years.

Think beef jerky.

I'd rather not.

Seriously though, I doubt it was a fox.