General Chat

oh well offered to buy the school new chickens
but poor harriet nelson and ruby

Lol joy i was just thinking about Benson hun, even dogs that have had the CAV 1 jab can still catch it :-(

mwahh

thanks steve MAWGH XXX

Also Joy be aware that Foxes are known carriers of

ICH (INFECTIOUS CANINE HEPATITIS)

Infectious canine hepatitis is a disease which affects the liver, kidneys, eyes and lungs of a dog. The disease can develop very quickly and some individuals may die within hours of becoming unwell.

It is transmitted by direct contact with infected urine, saliva and faeces. Furthermore, dogs that have recovered from this disease can still be infectious to other dogs for more than six months. Young puppies are particularly susceptible to the disease. The virus is relatively hardy and can survive for months in the environment under ideal conditions.

This disease is becoming more wide spread, due to two factors the increased numbers of urban foxes and the fact that more and more dog owners are not getting puppys vaccinated or giving older dogs boosters

yea see if u had carried on feedign them
poor henriette ruby n the other one "forgot its name lmao

would still be alive now ""sobs

poor chickens xxxx

confession time
i took the advice of some of you
and stopped feeding whiley fox
and guess what he did over the weekend
he dug under the fence at our local school
and ate their 3 hens
the children think the fox dug a hole
and the chickens escaped
i wish

do you think i should worm him

just to be on the safe side

We have a lot of them here. A vet friend of mine finds it quite funny that people feed them, after he explained that they carry - Toxocariasis, Weils disease, Mange, fleas and ticks. You wouldnt feed a giant rat coming into your garden so why feed a fox. She said she was seeing more and more rabbit and usually older cat injuries caused by foxes. Sorry dont mean to sound cheeky, but there urine etc can cause a lot of dangers.

x

I love foxes.......in theory........but I hate what they do to chickens and rabbits.......not their fault I know.... but I have to admit if I found my neighbour was encouraging them in..........I'd not be best pleased and nor would my feather and fur babies outside lol xx

The best feed for foxes -

A 1080 bait

Or a lead sandwich!

xxxx mick

(who owns duck and chooks!)

now i am wavering on buying more cooked chickens

a friend of mine used to feed a fox that came to her garden everyday. When she had cubs, she took them to see her too, they would literally go upto her etc. Things is once you start feeding them, they become reliable on the food, esp now winter is on its way....Perhaps you can make a hole in the garden away from the house and bury the odd chicken in there...x

I am with you Joy.

We feed foxes in our garden - keep it up I say - you are harming nobody. We bought dog biscuits by the way - a bit cheaper than chickens! They like sausages as well - fried - grilled - oven cooked they dont mind lol. We hand fed two of them - they love eggs and its amazing how gently they take an egg from your hand - without breaking it!

We have had a family of foxes with their little bundles of joy and its wonderful to watch. We also have badgers coming into our garden as well now and again.

Rats are about whether you feed it or not - with all the rubbish the humans leave around the pavements and roads these days.


Tina xxx

Seriously Joy they are not to be encouraged. We are over-run with urban foxes where I live in the Midlands and the foxes in her garden in London NW1 are keeping my daughter awake night after night.

S

i wont eat in a pub

that supported fox hunting

Not all townies are so much against the culling of foxes,,just the method of hounding and running a poor creature to death,,by hunting it with a pack of half starved hounds at its heels,,yes hounds are not fed up to 2 days before a hunt,,if they humanley shot to keep numbers down I wouldnt have a problem so much with it,its the other option I have problems with,,same as seal cubs,the way their numbers are kept down,,,,,

That right Joan,

My farmimg friends in west country would not let hunt on her land,!!

OK YOU WIN

HE CAN HAVE THE TWO COOKED CHICKENS

I BOUGHT HIM THEN I WILL TRY TO STOP LOL

My children had two lovely bunnies in a huge enclosure outside, with their hutch safe in the middle. We know foxes dig under for live food so we wire-fenced right under the ground and right under the pen 15 inches down.

One day we had a pet bunny with a leg missing and a broken second leg where Whiley had dug 2 ft down and pulled a leg throught the wire under the ground - a trip to the vet and a merciful putting to sleep of my child's pet.

Don't tell me about foxes - they are vermin and vicious. They are wild animals and should be treated as such.

Have a read.....you decide lol

http://www.foxolutions.co.uk/foxproblems.htm

Before you know where you are you will have the pack there