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B***tard Fox has had my chickens, Cute? I don't think so!
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tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I'm afraid so! 
proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I'm scared too!
TBH this actually sounds like it goes against my ideals of eating things that move. It isn't though, just as I see pets as different to farm animals I also see wild animals as different again. Better, in fact. They are being what they are, what could be a finer thing? Pets are forced into servitude, wild animals are not. It is even more important to me due to our rapid over-expansion that removes their natural habitat to fill with worthless humans. Although, in an odd twist, I still have no issue with eating game. Its had a life, its been what it is, and now it can feed me. I'd never punish it for behaving as nature intended though, that seems odd.
Like I said earlier, if it is a problem then kill it. You kill it though, you are the one tempting it onto your premises by essentially building a Maccy D's in your garden. Keeping chickens is less natural than being foxey, even gardening is less natural. I can't think of anything more natural in fact. Sure I was gutted when a heron took over a hundred quids worth of fish off me in one sitting, even more so when it left the most expensive one on the patio as well, but it was just being a heron. I may chase one away, but I'd never hurt one. I got a great vid of one over near Sainsburys the other day actually, they are lovely creatures.
I've re-read that and decided I am waffling, but I shall let it stand regardless. Mmmmm, waffles. Wheres the dinner thread?
TBH this actually sounds like it goes against my ideals of eating things that move. It isn't though, just as I see pets as different to farm animals I also see wild animals as different again. Better, in fact. They are being what they are, what could be a finer thing? Pets are forced into servitude, wild animals are not. It is even more important to me due to our rapid over-expansion that removes their natural habitat to fill with worthless humans. Although, in an odd twist, I still have no issue with eating game. Its had a life, its been what it is, and now it can feed me. I'd never punish it for behaving as nature intended though, that seems odd.
Like I said earlier, if it is a problem then kill it. You kill it though, you are the one tempting it onto your premises by essentially building a Maccy D's in your garden. Keeping chickens is less natural than being foxey, even gardening is less natural. I can't think of anything more natural in fact. Sure I was gutted when a heron took over a hundred quids worth of fish off me in one sitting, even more so when it left the most expensive one on the patio as well, but it was just being a heron. I may chase one away, but I'd never hurt one. I got a great vid of one over near Sainsburys the other day actually, they are lovely creatures.
I've re-read that and decided I am waffling, but I shall let it stand regardless. Mmmmm, waffles. Wheres the dinner thread?
Gramaisc
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kyoto49
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If we didn't pen chickens up in small enclosures to suit our desires then the fox wouldn't have a perfect canned hunting experience. We prevent the chickens from roosting high in trees where they would be protected from the foxes, and then complain when the fox attacks the sitting targets we have given them........
Just sayin' like
Just sayin' like
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
If anything its a bit unfair on the fox, as it will because less likely to actually hunt and therefore lose its natural skills. We could be responsible for the dumbing down of the fox species, we are pretty much playing god!
Gramaisc
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Hardly seems fair to moan at the foxes, when 'we' are doing this - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-20327241 ...?
staffordjas
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Poor dog. Reminds me of years ago when I was walking to work in the snow. A man came out of his house on Radford bank walking his Labrador,the dog cocked his leg up the lamp-post and got electrocuted. Unfortunately the dog died 
monkey bidness
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