How tame are your foxes
 

Walking back from the pub last week we were astonished to come across a fox , sitting not 10 feet away on a wall ,taking in the sunshine !

It didnt even bother moving :eek:

Well we saw a similar animal from the pub widow yesterday afternoon strolling down the pavement with out a care in the world , followed shortly afterwards by some boozed up ( and slighlty blubbery) vested middle aged women attempting to stroke/feed it :rolleyes:

And some people wonder at these so called attacks on small children

Best we let the Tory toffs start hunting them again then ;)

Chip

+1

When we moved into our current house the foxes started cr@pping on everything and even played on the kid's trampoline tearing the blue padding around the edge to bits. They screech at all hours of the night and the wild rhodedendron along our house seems to be there toilet as it always stinks, especially on a hot day.

I'd quite happily let the hunters in, but the mangy scabs around hear wouldn't make very nice headwear:(

We have a couple of foxes that hang around in the garden, the younger ones are not afraid at all and will happily be a few feet away.

Well, until we got a dog (I say 'dog' its a Yorkshire Terrier :) ) and now they only come in the dead of the night and even then will stay clear of the house.

Steve

We used to have one that walked up and down our street and in and out of the gardens, Herself was scared that it would eat our puppies so I tried to chase it away but it just sat in the neighbours garden and looked at me so I gave up and it walked away, haven't seen it since so hopefully it has moved on.

windyboy

Tame foxes are great, they don't run away when you miss which gives you a chance to re-load. :thumb:

I use to go fox hunting (yes with horses) they don't last a second once caught up with! But shooting them is just as effective. I hate them with a passion. One kept pissing on my wheels, that one is now dead.

Only see them late at night wondering the estate. Pretty sure one gave our old cat a good kicking one night. His fur was everywhere on the lawn and he'd had quite a bite taking out of his back. I think it's where he picked up the disease that killed him.

They must be quite timid around here as we rarely see them. They are around though as my exes dog used to go loopy for fox poo. Lick it, eat it roll in it you name it.

Urban foxes suffering from Sarcoptic Mange often seem to be very tame. They wander around during the daylight to try and maintain body temp from the sun. They can also be so affected by the condition that they seem to lose their fear of humans. The condition untreated may well cause death eventualy.

Thats quite intresting , other people seemed to be saying it was ill - but we couldnt see anything wrong with it , just a juvenille

Must admit i thought they all carried fleas etc to some extent ...

I seemed to have picked up the resident sh*t dropper.

It uses our garden as its toilet & sleeping area.

i would dearly like it got rid of!!!

what can i do legally to persuade it to leave?


Mart

Take pleasure in that did you? Small minded little.......

Tell you what. I'll round up a few of my mates and chase you, petrified and then tear you to bits. See how you like it?

If they are proving to be a menace then a quick kill with a gun is at least humane. Rather than this nonsense that not only inflicts cruelty, but perpetuates class differences.

seen quite a few around here, one minding its own business at about 6pm walking in front of us, and eventually took a right turn into a BT building heh

another i saw whilst very drunk one night, it must have noticed because that one hid in a hedge :D that or it wasnt really there :S lol..

saw a couple of young foxes playing as a child, was lookin out my bedroom window at them, till they decided the road was a better place to play... sure enough a car hit one of them :\

i dont mind them so much, but they make a god eerie noise sometimes

they do all seem pretty tame nowadays, well within reason :)

Urban foxes do become used to humans since they are living amongst us of course.

I think they are attractive looking creatures. Ther have been many instances of people taming them as household pets.

Les

The urban fox is a very different creature to the fox found out in the countryside. I've never seen a big healthy urban fox. I've seen plenty of healthy looking ones but always small in size.

Now I live in a village and walk the dog across open countryside I see foxes a fair bit and i've been shocked as to how just big they are here. The record size for a fox was recently shot in Kent up in the Sittingbourne area (by a vet of all people :rolleyes: ). Well it certainly isn't a one off as the last one I saw I first of all thought it was a German Shepherd running through the orchard ahead of me until I saw it properly and realised it was a fox. It dwarfed my Labrador in height, it was ridiculously big and in very good condition. I have no idea why but they seem to be growing massive. And he was seen on farm land where they still hunt foxes with hounds (illegally) so hopefully he will continue to be strong and avoid being caught.

As for urban foxes always attacking cats this is a common misconception and if does happen is rare and would be due to the fox being sick/starving. The two cats I used to have would stalk a fox together and I saw them chasing foxes out of the garden on more than one occasion. Cat injuries more often than not are caused by other cats.

The foxes in our area are the only things my cat would appear to be wary of, and indeed I supect the infected bite she recently acquired came from one :Suspiciou

The idiot dog on the other hand has no problem chasing them off :thumb: