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Title: dead fox
Post by: stocko75 on December 23, 2007, 23:41:42
hi, i took my 3 year old daughter to lottie today to get some parsnips for xmas dinner,as we walked towards the shed i could see a fox lying on the small decking area,,as we got closer i realised it was not alive!! told my girl it was asleep!
what would be the best way of diposing of it? don't know whether to phone the rspca or council?? thanks
Title: Re: dead fox
Post by: SnooziSuzi on December 24, 2007, 07:34:57
Aw what a thing to see.

I'd ring the council - it's their job to remove large roadkill from roads so they may have a team who will come round to collect it for you.

Have you got some thick gloves and a wheelbarrow to move it to a less inconvenient place?
Title: Re: dead fox
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on December 24, 2007, 13:50:54
Bury it, it'll rot down nicely.
Title: Re: dead fox
Post by: stocko75 on December 24, 2007, 21:28:45
i guess i might be a bit of a woooss?? as i cant bring myself to go near it!! and i am a 13.5 stone bricklayer!! scared of it waking up!!!! ha ha ha !!
Title: Re: dead fox
Post by: SnooziSuzi on December 24, 2007, 21:32:25
LOL!  Now I'm a 5'2"  scrawny girlie but I've still got to pick up the spiders and put them in the garden for 15 stone hubby!