General Chat

He's fighting back!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/10363646.stm

How many more people are going to be mauled by crazed foxes roaming round the countryside before we do something about it? Eh? It's becoming an epidemic and needs to be sorted now! What's the government going to do about it, that's what I want to know.

Edit:

It's really hot and sunny here this morning.

Have read it,how frighting for the little chap what ever bit him,,,,,i wonder if a ferral cat?

perhaps if they stopped taking the natural habitat of wild animals away they wouldnt be venturing near built up areas,,which years ago was unhead of I'm sure,!!,but then if people were more careful with the waste they just drop everywhere there wouldnt be the encouragement for vermin and animals.

perhaps they will have to introduce a killing spree in areas where they are seemingly venturing into public places......

Now I know 'who' you are Eldrick ;) you're Boris Johnson lol

"It is believed the child, who has not been named, saw and stroked the tail of an animal which was sticking out from under a building when it turned on him. "

lol

Boris has more hair than me and I dress smarter :-)

people need to stop feeding these animals . they are being to spoilt and its making them greedy and brave , Morning by the way
Rosex

people defo need to stop feeding them, somthing does need to be one,


but i still dont agree with fox hunting lol x

Well for a start you can transport them all back to England, we have had enough of them as well. Round them up I say and send them back on the boats they came in.

Gail

hides the cooked chicken behind my back
its only a tiny fox and looks very hungry lol


last time i stopped feeding our fox
it ate the school chickens

oh for goodness sake....foxes seem to be the new hoodies. They'll be getting asbos next.

Yeah, hunting is not good. Shooting them is much easier :-)

Gran, but what would you do about your rabbit problem if all the foxes came back to Blighty?

It's not quite as sunny here as it was an hour ago, btw. It looks like it might get cooler later, but then again, it might get out again. DIfficult to decide what to wear.

~~~~ Stray!

Joy, carry on girl..... I'm temped to start feeding them.

Can't believe the publicity the foxes have had, I'm sure Basil Brush hasn't had as much publicity - well except for that incident when he was accused of being racist a few years back....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1581817/Basil-Brush-racist-towards-gypsies-Complaint.html

They really have no taste for rabbit now, well Myxomatosis and Calicivirus have seen to that. They prefer native game and chickens. Any rabbits that are left we will also ship back to feed the foxes.

Gail

I have to say ( oh yes i do lol) that the foxes have not so much moved INTO the cities as that the cities have moved OUT to the foxes... for example the area of London where my gran was born. At the turn of the last century 1900, was largely rural/semi rural...you take away their habitat and then provide the alternative, which is a warmer, easier ( food wise) environment and what do you get...

keep the foxes I say, lets get rid of some people ;) they cause far more trouble.

You wouldn't say that if you kept poultry!

I like urban foxes, though. As long as they stay there, the more the merrier for me. I'm quite happy to shift ours into the city!

I dont agree with fox hunting.... something has to be done though. They are in the streets in Glasgow too. So many house being built etc so they move into towns and if they are getting fed well they will stay.
Theres talk of banning most rat poisons, maybe the odd fox would come in handy lol.

Deer are another problem causing road accidents. My Oh was lucky he wasnt hurt by hitting one. The deer was kiled ouright and the car was in for three weeks.

city foxes its got a sort of ring to it lol

Out here in the sticks I have several friends who keep poultry. They have secure hen houses and shut them away at night. Reynard hasn't stolen any in years.

I do agree they need to be controlled, though, I'm not sentimental about them. Just don't want to see the return of the unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable (Oscar Wilde)

I've seen enough of that and was glad to see it go.

Gwynne

I hate Basil Brush I was more of a Rupert Bear gal meself..... init ..... ice on the roads again here. ;(((

Count me as one of the unspeakable then :-)

But it's OK, I'm not offended. I've been called worse by pink fluffy bunny huggers :-)

Hayley - was it those tartan trews? I've got a pair the same, just for special nights out though. Sunny again here, wish it would make it's mind up. Tsk.

oh no more foxhunting,,,shot by qualified persons yes but not torn to shreds......

warm here with a little cloud at times making the cold just

bearable with the fire on,,,,}}}}}


Eldo yours are a relic from the cityrollers time when you was able bop,,