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garinda 11-05-2012 20:07
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It's a rare treat to see a fox up here.

Different matter when I lived in London.

My garden was like a vulpine Killing Fields.

Every single day there'd be blooded feathery, or furry evidence of something they'd massacred.

There was one really cheeky grey old fox, who used to sit on the sitting room window sill.

You could bang, shout, but he'd still carry on sneering at you, through the glass.

I don't dislike them, and am glad they are no longer hunted.

There are more humane ways, if they need to be controlled.

http://www.messentools.com/images/em...gmareado-1.gif

garinda 11-05-2012 20:18
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Urban foxes, in London especially, are endemic.

If I was working late I'd see them emptying the bins, in the middle of Hyde Park Corner.

The cheeky foxers.

That's taking humans' jobs away from them.

Mancie 11-05-2012 22:33
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The Tories did include a free vote on fox hunting in their manifesto.. seems this was blunted by Clegg just after the last election and the Tories concluded that there was no real support for a repeal of the hunting with dogs law but it is still on the books.
I my opinion hunting with dogs should be allowed, but not as a sport.. there is a big difference between hunting for sport and hunting for something you eat.

cmonstanley 11-05-2012 23:42
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how can humans complain about any other species ,as we have killed maimed more species than any other species.its like saying deer damage the enviroment when we completely destroy every other species habitat every day:rolleyes:

mobertol 12-05-2012 13:45
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Spotted this pair in Verona last year...:D

kestrelx 12-05-2012 14:45
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Quote:
Originally Posted by garinda (Post 991187)
It's a rare treat to see a fox up here.

Different matter when I lived in London.

My garden was like a vulpine Killing Fields.

Every single day there'd be blooded feathery, or furry evidence of something they'd massacred.

There was one really cheeky grey old fox, who used to sit on the sitting room window sill.

You could bang, shout, but he'd still carry on sneering at you, through the glass.

I don't dislike them, and am glad they are no longer hunted.

There are more humane ways, if they need to be controlled.

http://www.messentools.com/images/em...gmareado-1.gif
The foxes near me (in London) don't seem to catch things at all - except dead meat out of the dustbins and the scraps I throw down for them - as is the case with most London foxes they all eat human left overs.

mobertol 12-05-2012 16:01
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 991280)
The foxes near me (in London) don't seem to catch things at all - except dead meat out of the dustbins and the scraps I throw down for them - as is the case with most London foxes they all eat human left overs.
Hope you don't mean human remains by that:eek::D

kestrelx 12-05-2012 16:13
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Originally Posted by mobertol (Post 991300)
Hope you don't mean human remains by that:eek::D
No I mean they get into the bins and root out waste meat products - the one left near me, eats bread sometimes as well. :rolleyes: In the mornings there are bags spread over the gardens this is the foxes work.

Eric 12-05-2012 19:31
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 991303)
No I mean they get into the bins and root out waste meat products - the one left near me, eats bread sometimes as well. :rolleyes: In the mornings there are bags spread over the gardens this is the foxes work.
When it comes to this sort of thing, foxes can't hold a candle to coons:

Nerves Frayed In Toronto Over Roaming Raccoons : NPR

kestrelx 13-05-2012 13:49
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 991318)
When it comes to this sort of thing, foxes can't hold a candle to coons:

Nerves Frayed In Toronto Over Roaming Raccoons : NPR
Mmm and they can't hold a tin opener to Black Bears - which are a problem in many small towns over there!

Eric 13-05-2012 17:27
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Black bears are a pest ... these are critters to avoid at all costs:

File:Grizzlybear55.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

kestrelx 13-05-2012 17:57
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 991439)
Black bears are a pest ... these are critters to avoid at all costs:

File:Grizzlybear55.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Have you seen this - :D

Man Plays With Grizzly Bear - YouTube

Eric 13-05-2012 19:44
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 991448)
I like it ... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_Jo7lJoQhtj...y%2Blarson.jpg but this is more like the reality.;) I was within about 50m of a grizzly once ... just north of Ile-a-la-Crosse, Sask ... fortunately the wind was in the right direction; and after a while, he lumbered away. I was armed, of course, ... you don't go into the bush without a weopon ... but fortunately I didn't have to shoot.

kestrelx 13-05-2012 21:34
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Originally Posted by Eric (Post 991481)
I like it ... but this is more like the reality.;) I was within about 50m of a grizzly once ... just north of Ile-a-la-Crosse, Sask ... fortunately the wind was in the right direction; and after a while, he lumbered away. I was armed, of course, ... you don't go into the bush without a weopon ... but fortunately I didn't have to shoot.
There was a program about a bloke who hikes in the wilderness unarmed in America where bears are. :rolleyes: But take this guy - he went to the zoo and jumped into the Bear pen...:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=a9cIqK01Fwk

Eric 13-05-2012 22:41
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Originally Posted by kestrelx (Post 991532)
There was a program about a bloke who hikes in the wilderness unarmed in America where bears are. :rolleyes: But take this guy - he went to the zoo and jumped into the Bear pen...:eek:

????????????? ???????? - YouTube
Good one.:D It's not that I'm insensitive to the guy's predicament, but ... jumping into a bear pit without a formal introduction and other social niceties is, well, mmm ... words (ones that I can use on here) fail me.;) And hiking in the wilderness unarmed:rolleyes: I don't be thinking so.


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