Fox hunting

[SueEllen]

Don't know if any of you have noticed but fox hunting still happens and the foxes still die. It's just they are shot rather than left to the hounds. Although the biggest killer of foxes are cars, with a huge percentage of foxes not reaching two years of age.

[B]Also worth remembering we didn't have a problem with urban foxes until quite recently. Can't imagine why.[/]

I don't have a problem with fox hunting (I used to shoot them myself in my youth, working the farms) but I do have a problem with the Hunt and their assumption of supremacy, but that's a different issue altogether

Well everyone likes a KFC.

There are less foxes in my area thanks to wheelie bins.

[OwlHoot]

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Oh yes - and caning in schools. Especially for the thick kids. It never did sasguru any harm ....

I dunno though. Trying too hard to make a silk purse out of sow's ear, by educating a kid beyond their modest natural academic ability, can cause all kinds of problems!

[d000hg]

I've got videos of foxes in our garden. They have never touched our chickens.
But don't let that fact affect your emotional opinion.

I certainly won't let one datapoint affect my opinion based on growing up in the countryside and knowing that foxes like chickens and will enact a bloody massacre if they get the chance. I don't feel emotional about foxes.

[d000hg]

Well everyone likes a KFC.

There are less foxes in my area thanks to wheelie bins.

You put them in the wheelie bins? Like that lady with the cat?

More seriously, is it badgers that can get into wheelie bins? We used to have badgers visit our garden and while they were gorgeous, I recall it being actually quite hard to effectively badger-proof a bin. That may have been before wheelie bins were the norm though.

[NotAllThere]

I've got videos of foxes in our garden. They have never touched our chickens.
But don't let that fact affect your emotional opinion.

And yet your own username advocates that we should kill them and Wear The Fox Hat.

[BrilloPad]

And yet your own username advocates that we should kill them and Wear The Fox Hat.

Ignore him. He's a mod. "Do as we say. Not as we do".

Any more insults, and if the wind is blowing from the NE, you could face a ban...

[BrilloPad]

Most foxes won’t vote Labour because Jeremy Corbyn ‘just not credible as a leader’

[northernladyuk]

I dunno though. Trying too hard to make a silk purse out of sow's ear, by educating a kid beyond their modest natural academic ability, can cause all kinds of problems!

Thank the Lord nobody attempted that with you.