B***tard Fox has had my chickens, Cute? I don't think so!

[tek-monkey]

Strange really, as domesticated cats do more damage to wildlife yet people pay for the pleasure of having one hang around their house. If you want rid of foxes then fine, shoot them. Its much more efficient, takes much fewer people, costs loads less to do, but you don't get to watch a fox get ripped apart by dogs. I'm all for killing animals if there is a requirement, I'm not for enjoying the killing bit.

I used to see quite a few in Southampton, especially if working early. There was one I saw nearly every morning on the dock if I was there at half 7, he was like clockwork. Saw him with a rabbit once, god knows where from as the whole dock was concrete and he was heading back inland!

 

[Glam]

The thought of a bunch of toffee nosed twits riding around killing a couple of mangy old foxes doesn't bother me one little bit!

This country has gone soft, too many townies who never have to confront the reality of what these foxes get up to.

Shame we no longer have Stafford Points as I bet I would lose quite a few over this!

I used live in the lovely village of Moddershall, other side of Stone. I've seen more than my fair share of fox hunts over the years ty. It int just the foxes tho that the hounds rip to shreds, its family pets like cats n rabbits. My lovely big brother once pulled a toff from his horse outside The Boar pub, this knob had the cheek to call my brother a bumpkin cos he didn't understand the way of the land. He understood alright, he understood that it int fair to chase an animal for miles and then have it torn apart in the name of sport. I'm not a townie by any stretch of the imagination, I know the damage a fox can do,seen it first hand. It's nature, and before you start screaming at me about how they bugger off n leave the kill, yes sometime they do, most likely cos it's been disturbed, not always by man, it could be by another animal.
And as for the badger cull? A farmer once told me, if there is tb on the farm then you kill the badgers. If there int, then you leave well alone.

 

[wmrcomputers]

I used to see quite a few in Southampton, especially if working early.

I used to see a fox early in the mornings too, when I was a milkman. It's a story I could fill you in on when I bump into you one day tek, but I don't think it's one for the forum

 

[Withnail]

 

[Gramaisc]

Cor, Julie Ege....

 

[My Name is URL]

I assume that was a serious post.....

The thought of a bunch of toffee nosed twits riding around killing a couple of mangy old foxes doesn't bother me one little bit!

The foxes speak very highly of you..... seriously, live and let live.......

This country has gone soft, too many townies who never have to confront the reality of what these foxes get up to.

And what exactly is the reality of what these foxes get up to? Trying to survive as their habitats and food sources become increasingly scarce.....??

 

[tek-monkey]

I used to see a fox early in the mornings too, when I was a milkman. It's a story I could fill you in on when I bump into you one day tek, but I don't think it's one for the forum

I'd rather have foxes than unneeded (by us) immigration, just saying like........

 

[Gramaisc]

Beware of evolution..

 

[tek-monkey]

I would LOVE to see a fox hunt in those circumstances!

 

[henryscat]

Well that was written very quickly Joshua! Please let me be upset for my chickens and myself for aleast 5 mins before hitting me with the essay above...do we the victims deserve no sympanthy at all, just a little, a tiny bit??

It is upsetting when animals get killed. However...

In this instance a fox in the wild is acting on instinct. Keeping chickens captive is the artificial construct here. What happened to the male chicks, related to your chickens, when they were born, so that you could have laying hens?

If you eat meat then the animals you eat meet an equally, if not more, violent end to their existence than did yours at the apparent hands of a fox.

 

[Withnail]

the animals you eat meet an equally, if not more, violent end to their existence ...

Cows have their heads bitten off in abattoirs now?

That seems like an unusual step change - when was that brought in?

 

[Gramaisc]

Cows have their heads bitten off in abattoirs now?

That seems like an unusual step change - when was that brought in?

It would only need somebody to justify it on religious grounds, you know...

 

[tek-monkey]

Animal dead, predator fed. Life as normal. I assume if the fox could hold a bolt gun it would use that instead of teeth.

 

[henryscat]

Cows have their heads bitten off in abattoirs now?

That seems like an unusual step change - when was that brought in?

 

[Lunar Scorpion]

That was horrible... You could see milking cows with their oversized udders and I'm sure some of those animals were still alive and conscious when they were being cut open or having bits chopped off them!

 

[tek-monkey]

Saw a fox head on a plaque at the car boot

Also what looked like a massive stoaty thing, head wasn't far off that of the fox.

 

[Withnail]

a video that YouTube deems to be " inappropriate for some users"

Some kind of a warning may have been appropriate?

'Tis a sordid business to be sure, but i'm not hugely convinced that the methods on show represent an 'equally, if not more' violent end than having one's head removed via claw based pin-down, followed by decapitation administered via a bite to the neck.

Red in tooth and claw, and all that.

 

[Gramaisc]

Some kind of a warning may have been appropriate?

"Shocking slaughter footage" should alert most people to the possibilities, I would have thought..?

 

[Withnail]

That is, indeed, one way of looking at it.

Some people do not look before they leap, and it is those that tend to be the easiest to take... umbrage.

A NSFW(usses) alert is all i'm alluding to.

Having said that, are we not straying somewhat from the doodah?

 

[tek-monkey]

I suggest the OP reads 'Fantastic Mr Fox', or even watches it (was quite well done I thought). A fox is a fox is a fox, do we have a right to complain when it acts like a fox?