for fox sake

[husky03]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20110102/video/vod-biggest-ever-fox-caught-in-britain-dfc7e2c.html

must be american

[xXBADGERXx]

There is one near me around that size too , weird really as I was telling DavePreston`s Mrs about it just the other day and how I could not believe the size of the thing ..... and here is one on the news .

[husky03]

i've seen a few road kill ones on the way to work that i thought were dogs only to see that they were big foxes -the joys of the landfill sites that double as a supermarket for the vermin.

[maviczap]

Thats what a KFC diet does for an Urban fox

I've seen a few of the big buggers

[xXBADGERXx]

The one near me is not Urban and is in captive countryside as well , strangely though he has Black paws and Chocolate tip on his tail

[-Ralph-]

Kill a fox 'cos it ate somebody's cat? Must have been a slow cat for a start. And that's just nature FFS. Shall we kill every cat that ever ate the neighbours rabbit?

[the_lone_wolf]

Nice to see the rural community adapting in light of the ban on fox hunting...


Although I'm not sure crucifixion is the direction the eco-mentalists had in mind...

[BanannaMan]

Kill a fox 'cos it ate somebody's cat? Must have been a slow cat for a start. And that's just nature FFS. Shall we kill every cat that ever ate the neighbours rabbit?




Comparing someones's domestic pet to a wild animal prone to killing livestock and known for spreading rabies?
A bit of a stretch there innit?

[-Ralph-]

Comparing someones's domestic pet to a wild animal prone to killing livestock and known for spreading rabies?
A bit of a stretch there innit?

No rabies here mate. And farmers proactively killing them in the countryside to protect a large number of livestock from being killed in future, is very different to killing an urban fox in a reactive manner because one cat was too slow. Foxes don't often kill domestic cats and dogs.

[beabert]

Kill a fox 'cos it ate somebody's cat? Must have been a slow cat for a start. And that's just nature FFS. Shall we kill every cat that ever ate the neighbours rabbit?

It should be rewarded, keep yer cats on leads.

[BanannaMan]

No rabies here mate. And farmers proactively killing them in the countryside to protect a large number of livestock from being killed in future, is very different to killing an urban fox in a reactive manner because one cat was too slow. Foxes don't often kill domestic cats and dogs.




http://cenvachristiansportbike.homestead.com/redneck2.gif
Showing my local prejudices and influences (aka ignorance) again.

Considered varmints here in the Appalachians, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermin)
although in prized in the eastern part of the state (Virginia) for "English Foxhunting" which is of course fox hunting on horseback as you know it.

We have no urban foxes here (not of the four legged variety) excepting a possible stray. And ones that kill cats and dogs (or don't flee from humans) nearly always have rabies.

Even though they are a protected species here, (hunting laws) like snakes (most of which are poisionous) they are truely despised here and the saying is "The only good one is a dead one" .
Most in this part of the countryside, farmer or not, will kill one if it's seen around their property.


Besides I like cats. :D

[-Ralph-]

Considered varmints here in the Appalachians,
We have no urban foxes here (not of the four legged variety) excepting a possible stray. And ones that kill cats and dogs (or don't flee from humans)

They are considered a verminous pest here too, but are not hated to the same extent in urban areas as say rats and pigeons, mainly because they are very shy and the most common way to see one is to come across them in the car during the night or very early morning, if you are walking they are generally aware of you and have disappeared long before you have seen them. If people don't generally come into contact with them, or suffer any consequence of them being there, then they don't see the need to eradicate them as a pest. In fact many people (perhaps inadvisedly) leave food out for them.

There is evidence that they are getting bolder though, a fox killed an unattended baby not so long ago, but I think that was a first time ever.

[yorkie_chris]

Kill a fox 'cos it ate somebody's cat? Must have been a slow cat for a start. And that's just nature FFS. Shall we kill every cat that ever ate the neighbours rabbit?

Yes :)

[Bluefish]

Yes :)


he he, YC's back from christmas ;)

[yorkie_chris]

Cats do my bloody head in. I can't stand them killing stuff when they're already well fed, or the fact that owners just let them run wild... if it's your pet then keep it under control. Or I'll get a doberman and bring it round your garden and see how you f***in like it.

Alternatively I've half a mind to start trapping them.

[Specialone]

Well chris I won't post on here what I'd do if I caught somebody doing that to a pet of mine.
These are not wild animals they are peoples pets, dogs, cats, rabbits etc how would you feel if your pet was killed by someone ? You'd be p155ed as much as I would.

[-Ralph-]

Aside from YC's war against foxes and cats

It's just nature. Cats kill everything smaller than them. Jack Russell's kill rats. Dogs chase cats, etc, etc. If my dog cornered a cat in my garden and killed it I'd feel very sorry for the owner, and I'd buy them a new cat and pay all the vets bills, but I wouldn't punish the dog. Just a fact of life folks, never going to change it.

[husky03]

Its official
YC DON'T LIKE PUSSY!.

[husky03]

If my dog cornered a cat in my garden and killed it I'd feel very sorry for the owner, and I'd buy them a new cat and pay all the vets bills, but I wouldn't punish the dog.

In your own garden and you'd replace the cheety!!-would i heck.Cheety shouldn't have been there.Mind you , you should have seen the dogs when they got hold of a huge hedgehog from under there run-thing was dead in seconds.

[Sally]

Its official
YC DON'T LIKE PUSSY!.

Hehe

[-Ralph-]

In your own garden and you'd replace the cheety!!

Yeah I would. Not like for like if it were a few hundred quids worth of posh moggy. But I'd get them a new cat. I know how I'd feel if mine got mauled to death by a neighbours dog. Don't know if the neighbour would do the same for me, but what can I say, I'm a nice guy. ;)

[Sosha]

I wasn't hallucinating... Saw what looked at first glance to be a small deer down by the canal - not that there are deer by the canal - closer second look said fox. Then Brain kicked in and said "that can't be a fox - it's the size of a small deer"... was though.

Cue x files music

RE Cats and dog runs - I classiffy that like Cats & motorways. Sorry for owner but the occasional price of ultimate freedom cats have.

[dizzyblonde]

Cats do my bloody head in. I can't stand them killing stuff when they're already well fed, or the fact that owners just let them run wild... if it's your pet then keep it under control. Or I'll get a doberman and bring it round your garden and see how you f***in like it.

Alternatively I've half a mind to start trapping them.

Yeah yeah yeah, like wotevaaaaaa. Peeps he loves cats, which is why when he comes to our house he loves having 'a walking kebab' perched on his knee! Specially smelly old cat Angus:p
Walking kebab being his description of a cat.

Did they really have to hang the bloody fox up like a pheasant on a ladder to demonstrate its largeness?

As for cats and dogs...well right now there are two cats sharing my dogs bed.....and poor Bob is sat looking at his bed with his tail between his legs, waiting for them to move!

[BanannaMan]

Cats do my bloody head in. I can't stand them killing stuff when they're already well fed




The well fed ones are the best hunters.
They hunt for sport,the ones who feed on their prey only hunt when hungry.
We have cats here to keep away the mice. Because if you have mice you soon have snakes as well.
We have 4 cats now. but it would be three if my wife knew which one killed one of the hummingbirds this summer.