Foxes

[Jenijenjen]

10 hours ago, abp said:

You were in its territory - they were here before us 🤷‍♀️

Also 😂

Never used to see foxes in East Dulwich when I first moved here 40 years ago. Nor did I see them when I grew up in West London.

[lilolil]

4 minutes ago, Jenijenjen said:

Never used to see foxes in East Dulwich when I first moved here 40 years ago. Nor did I see them when I grew up in West London.

There were definitely foxes here more than 40 years ago. There was a den in the old chapel waste ground in Hindmans Road and then when they demolished the prefabs, the foxes “took over” the remaining site until the houses were built.

 

[Jenijenjen]

1 hour ago, lilolil said:

There were definitely foxes here more than 40 years ago. There was a den in the old chapel waste ground in Hindmans Road and then when they demolished the prefabs, the foxes “took over” the remaining site until the houses were built.

 

Thanks for that. I was probably walking around in a world of my own ...

[Happyme5]

I think foxes have been around us for as long as the difference now is they do not stay away and hidden until night.  They are no longer as timid as they once were.  Apparently during a research project there is a clear difference in brain sizes of rural and urban foxes.  Rural foxes having the larger brains.  🦊🦊🦊

[malumbu]

30 years ago I'd see a fox every so often it would be a little unusual, now several a day and 5 or ten times as many.  Urban foxes live longer than their country counterparts and smaller territories due to more plentyful food.  Wish they'd eat more squirrels and parakeets!

[Happyme5]

LOL   it is much easier to raid a bin 😜 😜 😜 

[abp]

On 28/06/2024 at 09:52, lilolil said:

There were definitely foxes here more than 40 years ago. There was a den in the old chapel waste ground in Hindmans Road and then when they demolished the prefabs, the foxes “took over” the remaining site until the houses were built.

 

Ha that’s weird, Hindmans road was literally where I lived (with lots of foxes!) but I just moved to France yesterday. Miss the beautiful foxes already! They were so chill around our cats, it was very sweet 🦊 

[Lynne]

"Sweet" wasn't the word that came to mind when I found the enormous hole the foxes had dug in our back garden in order to exhume the nibbled dead rat I'd buried there the night before.

The stinking corpse was left right outside our back door.

No, not sweet