Fox Problem?

Should fox hunting with dogs remain illegal?

  • Should fox hunting remain illegal?

    Votes: 17 89.5%

  • or should it be legalised again?

    Votes: 2 10.5%
  • Total voters
    19
  • Poll closed .
jaysay said:
Ya Max, foxes might look nice a sweet little things, but the truth is they're evil swines really, I've seen the damage they do in a hen hut, they don't just kill one for food they kill the lot of pleasure, I only saw it once that was enough:eek:
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Perhaps they don't kill them for pleasure! It's possible they kill them all out of panic or confusion. Fact is having a lot of birds trapped in a hen hut is not nature - so a fox getting into a hen hut may react that way because of it's abnormal and un-natural situation. :D
 
kestrelx said:
Perhaps they don't kill them for pleasure! It's possible they kill them all out of panic or confusion. Fact is having a lot of birds trapped in a hen hut is not nature - so a fox getting into a hen hut may react that way because of it's abnormal and un-natural situation. :D
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I think you are right on this one ... foxes are not "evil" killers, they are, well, foxes. It's the nature of the beast. When my JRT chases a squirrel, and I put the brake on the leash, she gives me that questioning look, as if she is saying: "Hey, I'm a terrier; and this is what terriers do.";)
 
Don't want to sound pedantic but fox hunting is not illegal.. hunting any wildlife using more than one dog is illegal.
 
I've seen more foxes in London than I ever saw around Accy.. used to go out for rabbits on weekends outside Accy and only ever saw one fox.. must have seen half a dozen in central London, I've had them walk past me on the Old Kent Road early morning and not even look up, most of them look like skinny stray dogs.
 
kestrelx said:
Great photograph. Yes I meant fox hunting with dogs which is illegal - I tried to change the poll description but it wouldn't let me do it. :D
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And your original question "are foxes a problem" I think they have always been a problem for game keepers.. the old chestnut about them breaking into hen houses or poultry farms and killing loads of chickens for the fun of it is rubbish.. foxes are dogs.. they maybe clever but they don't carry bolt cutters or crowbars and can't break into any self respecting owner of hen coups.:D
 
Mancie said:
And your original question "are foxes a problem" I think they have always been a problem for game keepers.. the old chestnut about them breaking into hen houses or poultry farms and killing loads of chickens for the fun of it is rubbish.. foxes are dogs.. they maybe clever but they don't carry bolt cutters or crowbars and can't break into any self respecting owner of hen coups.:D
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Fox hunting with dogs is illegal! They should shoot them in winter - easy, just put down some fresh meat near a shooting hide and then shoot them. That's if any population control is needed by game keepers etc. As for farm lifestock - sheep are too big for a fox to kill, maybe they take the odd lamb but most sheep/lambs are killed by rogue dogs.

Tally ho fox hunting is a barbaric way to kill foxes (like Badger baiting) and should never be made legal again.

Yeh foxes are every where in London and walking through any street in the early hours, there will usually be a fox seen looking for food. :D So I don't know why they aren't seen more often in the centre of smaller towns like Accrington?
 
kestrelx said:
Yeh foxes are every where in London and walking through any street in the early hours, :D So I don't know why they aren't seen more often in the centre of smaller towns like Accrington?
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It's all down to your Alcohol levels I reckon, but in the morning when the Beer goggles are whipped away by the Evil hangover Pixies, said Fox turns out to be a proper Dog. :D



Sorry, couldn't let the chance go, I'll apologise & crawl off back under my rock shall I ? :rolleyes:
 
What is the situation today? Are there many in Accrington town centre and/or in residential areas? Are any problems caused by foxes?[/quote]
No the smell from the piles of dog sh1te on the pavements, & grassy areas warns them off.
 
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.

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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.
 
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.
 
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:
 
Spotted this pair in Verona last year...:D
 

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garinda said:
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.

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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.
 
kestrelx said:
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.
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Hope you don't mean human remains by that:eek::D
 
mobertol said:
Hope you don't mean human remains by that:eek::D
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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.
 
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