FAO Ollie C - Fox

[redimp]

Re the fox killing lots of your birds.  Yes they do do this.  I think it is an opportunistic response to a glut of food and defence mechanism to when food might not be so plentiful.  Not being so obsessed with best before dates as we are, given the chance, the fox will collect and stash its kill and eat it later.  The fox though rarely gets the chance to do this as its 'crime' is usually discovered.

[redimp]

[Melbourne12]

Does anyone know why the earlier fox thread was locked?

[SamLouise]

Possibly the thread starter, Pauline, may have locked it (wasn't me!)  :)

[OllieC]

Seems strange - I thought it was an interesting discussion, and none of us had called each other names... yet. But Red, you're a bloody softy!! (just a joke!).

Interesting point, and not something I know enough about... I do know what I've seen though. Who knows the workings of the fox's mind? It may or may not be a digression to mention that the pen of partridges was being kept for the farmer to release & kill for his own pleasure... I really do think fox's are almost as unpleasant as humans!

It is almost certainly a further digression to mention someone I know who works in a lab in the US (actually for the NIH in DC doing medical research). Every month or so, he has to kill about 10 rats in order to extract something or other, which is then used for his research. It requires several days of doing paperwork on each occasion before he is allowed to do this. Meanwhile, the authorities in DC poison hundreds of thousands of rats every week, in a horrible way, without having to fill in a single form. My point is that the double standards with which we treat different animals is amazing.

[mat]

Foxes won't go back and collect/store the food, they kill for fun.  We had huge problems with foxes killing our chickens.  They were in a good shed overnight and the fox would gnaw his way through...

On all occasions the foxes would just take the heads, and leave everything else.  Once we left the bodies to see what would happen, but the foxes left them, completely ignored them.  This is killing for FUN/killing sake.

I don't agree with fox hunting - it's just as cruel, but I do believe they need to be controlled humanely with guns. 

[Paulines7]

Possibly the thread starter, Pauline, may have locked it (wasn't me!)  :)

Not this Pauline but Paulinemargaret.   Perhaps, being a newcomer to the site, she did it by accident.

[paulinemargaret]

didnt realise that it was locked
its not now,
and i am not a newbie realy i had to re register as i couldnt log in