Foxes

[Dave H]

Wrong Dave mate. That was a ripost to chesters1 Dave

 

I'm with you, the only good fox is a dead one.

I thought that was a bit odd compared with what had been said? ....Now i am back on track..I think...I am sure

[Dave H]

Right i am on a roll here so lets talk about that idiot may from queen sticking up for badgers not being culled!...Well 'Mr Flash master of nothing'

 

In fact what we could do is put him in a nice shed and watch one cow from start to finish die from TB . Then come and compensate the farmer . These people just can't get over the cover of the book and not what is inside it!

Edited March 19, 2013 by Dave H

[Andrew]

Bloody good guitarist though.

 

My sister used to keep chickens in her back garden in the village she lived in. It was a common event to lose them to foxes.

One night my brother in law and i laid in wait. BOOM BOOM BOOM. Safe chickens and not so safe foxes.

[corydoras]

The game in my local butcher's shop is hunted - but most people shop at supermarkets.

Some peolpe, like me, don't have a lot of choice. I don't have a car and there are no butchers in Southampton any more.

[corydoras]

Or...an essential predator, scavenger and cleaner up of the countryside...A good job that by and large they're more adaptable than the people that try to kill them!

You wouldn't think that if you were a sheperd on a Scottish hill farm in lambing season, Too many deaths by fox predation=P45.

[Steve Walker]

Some peolpe, like me, don't have a lot of choice. I don't have a car and there are no butchers in Southampton any more.

 

You would have a choice if everybody else hadn't already voted for the pre-packed crap.

 

Surprised there are none at all, though, that's really poor - we've got at least four within a 20 minute bicycle ride.

[Worms]

You wouldn't think that if you were a sheperd on a Scottish hill farm in lambing season, Too many deaths by fox predation=P45.

It's a funny thing but, I've never seen a lamb that I know was killed by a fox..Even when I was working in the Lake District (many years ago during a few lambing seasons) and I've never met a sheep farmer round this area who has ever seen a fox kill a lamb. I am sure that it does happen occasionally but, I have seen a fox with two broken legs that had to be put out of its misery after being completely splattered by a ewe..and more than a few dogs that have come off second best after getting too close to ewes with lambs.

 

In my area (and most others I know) foxes are shot for 'fun' and because they eat pheasants...! That just goes against my 'native predator eats non-native money machine = fair play' views

[corydoras]

You would have a choice if everybody else hadn't already voted for the pre-packed crap.

 

Surprised there are none at all, though, that's really poor - we've got at least four within a 20 minute bicycle ride.

I had a google after I posted that and I have found one that is almost within walking distance, so I'll check it out. When I moved here in th 1980s there were three in the town centre..

[corydoras]

It's a funny thing but, I've never seen a lamb that I know was killed by a fox..Even when I was working in the Lake District (many years ago during a few lambing seasons) and I've never met a sheep farmer round this area who has ever seen a fox kill a lamb. I am sure that it does happen occasionally but, I have seen a fox with two broken legs that had to be put out of its misery after being completely splattered by a ewe..and more than a few dogs that have come off second best after getting too close to ewes with lambs.

 

In my area (and most others I know) foxes are shot for 'fun' and because they eat pheasants...! That just goes against my 'native predator eats non-native money machine = fair play' views

I hope you don't eat lamb or use any woolen products. Do you eat beef? That's the product of another non-native money machine. So is chicken.

[Worms]

I hope you don't eat lamb or use any woolen products. Do you eat beef? That's the product of another non-native money machine. So is chicken.

What a strange comment!

 

Of course I eat sheep, beef, pigs, chicken pheasants and lots more. Why is that relevant to me not shooting foxes or holding a view on other native predators eating non-native animals...such as otters?