The other day I found out that animal do gooders have released some urban foxes into the forest, these foxes are trapped in urban areas and released into the countryside to prevent them being destroyed, what a stupid thing to do, these people have no consideration for the well being of animals at all. The same day I had just finished doing the animals in the morning when the alpacas started alarm calling so I went to see what was setting them off.
A fox in the next field,
These photos I took from about 20ft away at 9-30 in the morning, I had walked through 3 fields with it looking at me and it was no put off by my being there at all.
I am thinking this is one of the urban foxes, it seems they come out during the day and are not put off by humans or dogs.
I even managed to do a short video of it
now we are on regular fox patrol and it will be dispatched.
Some people just do not understand, the mad woman next door (20 cats) was feeding foxes outside her house, we got the council to stop her, but she now takes the food around the corner onto private land. The old guy who lives there does not see her. As those foxes get hungry they will become more desperate, finger crossed for your little plot.
ReplyDeleteThis was recently a huge problem in our area. When our neighbour suddenly acquired 3 gorgeous Chinese Grey geese, just like the ones we used to have, we asked him where he had got them from. Seemingly some 'do-gooders' had released a trio of urban foxes onto farmland near his friends farm. The foxes had maimed and injured lots of this guys geese, and killed loads of his chickens and ducks. He was desperate that not all of his geese would suffer the same fate and so asked Steve if he would take the three remaining healthy ones.
ReplyDeleteThe townies think they are returning these foxes 'to the wild' they do not realise that they are sentencing both the foxes and lots of other farmed birds and creatures to their deaths.
A while ago, during a phone call, my brother (who lives in a big town the UK) mentioned with some delight that they had been watching foxes in their garden, and that there was a very tame fox nearby who sat on the roadside verge and waited to be fed by passers by. He was so thrilled, but I was not. The previous night we had lost our best laying goose to a fox, and had lost several laying hens previously. I live in the country (SW France). I found myself getting quite irritable with my brother as he gushed on about how he so loved watching the foxes!
ReplyDeleteNever ceases to amaze, the ignorance of townies who have never lived in a rural situation and have no clue about the realities.
ReplyDeleteA 12-bore usually sorts them out, especially since you can get close to them. And the sooner the better before they start breeding.
I had never seen a fox up north, only when I moved to a small town in the south have I seen so many foxes walk amongst our neighbourhood. Their screeching at night is most awful. I do not trust the damn things and find them to be an annoyance. (can't have chickens on the allotment and can't let my rabbit in the garden.) Something tells me that these do-gooders might be thinking along the lines of 'not in our back yard'. There's nothing more unnerving than a fox walking by your hedge as darkness falls. I hope they leave you and yours well alone.
ReplyDeleteooh Dawn. Don't get me started! While appreciating that foxes get rid of a fair number of rabbits (sorry fluffy bunny brigade) for which I am not sorry, they have also taken my ducks, geese, chickens and one year, a new born lamb. Someone local to us "saves" foxes from the towns.
ReplyDeletePeople move these foxes out to the "wild" not realising that the remaining foxes in the town will just breed and repopulate the areas they've been taken from. I recently lost a duck to a fox so I increased my Security measures to deter them
ReplyDeleteOnly good fox is a dead one in my opinion!
ReplyDeleteCumbrian, love it: Never ceases to amaze, the ignorance of townies who have never lived in a rural situation and have no clue about the realities.
ReplyDeleteA 12-bore usually sorts them out, especially since you can get close to them. And the sooner the better before they start breeding."
I agree, you definitely don't want a set of townies starting to breed in the country!!!!! Sorry - I couldn't resist : )
I think it it totally stupid, but there are so many do-gooders who don't know anything about the realities of country living and that releasing urban foxes into the wild just means starvation for them, unless they adapt and learn to hunt PDQ, which is what makes poultry so attractive a target . . .
Yes Bovey Belle, just re-read it, see what you mean. I could have phrased it better.
ReplyDeleteFoxes are quite simply killing machines. When I lived in rural North Norfolk a large estate would pay 10 shillings for a fox brush, they had free range poultry, sheep and goats. A fox took out several of their birds in one night and they put the reward notice up. The results were as expected, within a few weeks the foxes had gone.
ReplyDeleteHere in California we have Coyotes that are similar to foxes. ( I am an ex Brit) They were here long before we were and are still here. I have chickens and if they free range we expect to loose some to the Coyotes. The only way to safe guard them is to have them in a secure pen.
ReplyDeleteCumbrian, your phrasing is just right!
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