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In the light of the news reports that some poor, defenceless babies have been horrifically mauled by an urban fox, is it time that such animal populations are brought under control?
I’ve noticed that, at least since the hunting ban, there seem to be fewer and fewer foxes in the country and more and more in town. I think foxes are getting away with a level of nuisance in our towns that we just wouldn’t tolerate from, say, rats. My suspicion this is purely because they are more pleasing to the eye.
I think we should be even handed about it. Fox numbers should be kept down in exactly the same way that we would expect rat numbers to be curtailed.
They are encouraged, fed, they have lost their fear of man, of dogs of anything, it needs restoring and people need to start respecting and treating them as the wild animal they are,and even the pest they can be. They are hunters they are killers and they are wild, we turned soft we stopped controlling them its mans fault and it will only get worse unless peoples attitudes change.
I’m against fox hunting as a sport or leisure pastime. But I accept that foxes and other wild animals might need to be culled. If this happens it should be done humanely by professionals, presumably by cage-trapping and then euthanasia. Hunting, shooting or poisoning would obviously be impractical in towns anyway.
It’s very sad about the twin girls being attacked by a fox. I haven’t heard of people being attacked by foxes before, though. I remember hearing a man was seriously injured by a badger a few years ago. Pet dogs cause a lot more injuries to humans than urban foxes do.
if we kill a fox on our property we could go to jail , that needs changing. fair enough to protect them in thier own habitat but if they are a danger to our livestock or even humans we should have the right to kill them
Once we’ve decided we need to kill some, why not have a laugh doing it? I vote letting the chavs pursue them on their BMX bikes with their pitbulls. They could all dress in Glory Red England tops and get pissed on vodka and RedBull before they start for extra entertainment. It’d be like a community thing.
last year 5,221 people, including 1,250 children, were treated in hospital in England after being mauled by man’s best friend: the dog.
According to the Mammal Research Unit, at least 70 per cent of urban foxes would need to be killed each year, and every year for a long time, to reduce numbers.
The real alternative, according to Bryant, “is to leave them in their territory to keep other foxes out and educate them about where they are not welcome”.
An entire “educative” industry has grown up around non-lethal fox control. Companies such as Foxolutions, which has had a “phenomenal amount of interest” this week, offer scented repellants, prickly strips that affix to the top of a fence, and devices that spray water and air at the fox. Interplex Solar, based in Birmingham, is currently selling 10 times as many Nite Eyes as usual – a solar-powered device that scares away foxes with a red flashing light.
Inglis sighs. “Please don’t start buying that kind of stuff. You’ll only end up paying twice.”
And there, in a nutshell, you have the dilemma – financial, moral or biological – for anyone worried about urban foxes. If you want your local one killed, you can have it done, legally and relatively cleanly, and live fox-free until another one takes its place. Yet to make a significant inroad, someone would have to pay for a foxmageddon of 23,100 urban foxes (70 per cent) every year for the next few years. And one can only imagine the howls of anguish that that kind of cull would cause.
@pete wrote:
The real alternative, according to Bryant, “is to leave them in their territory to keep other foxes out and educate them about where they are not welcome”.
Spot on, its the only way to keep them out
now the tories are in the the LIB dems are gonna be ignored. I expect to be drinking from the stirrup cup !
ok a natural cull NOT a bunch of kunts chasing the fox for pleasure ! and enjoying the blood sport !
I will sabotage any ” hunt”.. usually by rich Englishmen on MY wee peice o the world !
murdering scum !
No conspiracy theories then, how the hunt fraternity “planted” the fox to give David cameron the push to implement his repeal of hunting laws ?
Nope.
Only your undoubtedly naff excuse for the unattributed copy/pasting of other people’s words.
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