There's a fox in my garden

They are not cute, they are a killing machine and a lazy, they would rather take from a chicken run than hunt for themselves.[/quote]
cool,can we head off to the nearest Mcdonalds and shoot the Chavs

We used to have foxes in Cornwall but I've not seen one here - in the town, I mean - in 12 years. They're a nuisance in the countryside for all the reasons that Tim gives.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by gid

cool,can we head off to the nearest Mcdonalds and shoot the Chavs

Enjoy.


They are a right pain, but you'll need at least FAC air rifle or a .22, <12ftlb air rifle isn't powerful enough for a clean kill. Maybe a crossbow.

Badgers can be viscious too, got in my mum's hen house and savaged haldf the chickens.

[Richie]

Originally Posted by Tim in Belgium

Badgers can be vicious too, got in my mum's hen house and savaged half the chickens.

"You should always put a dead badger on a head wound."

Originally Posted by timwilky

Shoot the bloody thing, they are a menace, when you lose 20+ birds overnight to them and killed for the sake of killing, not even for food. You see the evil they are.

They are not cute, they are a killing machine and a lazy, they would rather take from a chicken run than hunt for themselves.

So put a flock of sheep in a tiger's back garden and suddenly the tiger is a menace? Or a pig pen on the shore of the river Nile and suddenly the crocs are evil?

Be reasonable, they are not an evil that should be exterminated. The fox is an animal. If man cannot accept that a predator might take advantage of his short-sightedness, then he really shouldn't try things as complex as chicken coop construction.

[timwilky]

Interesting use of the term predator. On this planet man is currently the ultimate predator. and we kill for primarily two reasons, food or sport.

Many have no problem with the former. However, they also begrudgingly accept that the food argument also includes protecting/preserving your food stock. But to make this fun by turning it into a sport seems to be a crime.

Perhaps, because I grew up knowing where my food had come from, how/when it was killed/butchered etc. I have a rural outlook. I always remember my kids coming home with a piece of homework relating to a farmer who shot the rabbits eating his lettuce, the foxes starving as a result of the lack of rabbits attacked his hen coups and the kids had to write their opinion.

I helped my kids with this homework, and explained the farmer should have also shot the foxes first, as they would never have hunted wild rabbits whilst there was an available chicken population, and then shot the rabbits. They submitted their work and my kids were told they were wrong as the farmer should have allowed for some loss in order to feed the rabbits and they would feed the fox and we have to live in harmony with nature. I challenged their teacher about this absurd brainwashing she was attempting and she confirmed that she was a vegan and would never accept the killing of animals, and she had thought she had the right to teach this ideal to the children in her charge.

A letter of complaint was submitted and the children invited to a couple of farm visits where the process of providing the nations food was explained.

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by timwilky

we have to live in harmony with nature.

Amusing, but quite worrying the crap that some people will try to teach.

Call for the master of the hounds I say.Let's have the full hunt riding through your garden and tally hoeing to their hearts delight.