Baby foxes

[MadWorld74]

The foxes were there first before we are our houses moved in. Live with them and leave them alone.

[Tom]

Well, yes, they were around before London became the metropolis it is now, but the population levels of foxes are so high that they are now pretty miserable animals living on rotting take-aways and apparently climbing through windows to eat children!! It is also true to say that they appear to hold little / no fear of humans and before long someone / something will get attacked by one. Whether that's deserved or not I leave to you to decide.

Too many people & too many foxes. I am still going to support controlled destruction if it is ever offered by the council (it won't in case it offends the mighty vegetarians).

Sorry is that offends nr neighbours, but I can't stand them (the foxes no the neighbours!)

What's the law regarding shooting wild animals with an air-rifle in your own garden?

:)

(I can't wait to see the response this gets - Ha Ha!!)

[Keef]

I just think that if you can round them up to destroy them in a nice controlled way (?!?!?!?!?!?), you could just as easily take them in to the country and release them.... Anything is better than hireing some wannabe hitman to shoot them, as happened in the programme with the tw@t who kept chickens (badly).

[Mark]

If people stopped leaving rubbish out where foxes could get at it (and people stopped feeding them) they wouldn't hang around much.

[MadWorld74]

The 'mighty vegetarians'....???? it is just vegetarians that care about animals then?

[Keef]

I agree with Mark... In that same programme, there was an old retired couple leaving food for, and filming foxes each night (bless). However, they lived rather close to the fool with the chickens..... You can guess the rest....

Personally, I can understand why farmers shoot foxes in the country (though I still don't agree with it), but I don't think people in the city have any cause to! As for people that keep chickens in their gardens, I'm sorry, but I don't think they belong in the city any more than the foxes! Just my opinion.....

The funniest thing on that programme was that after the chicken man had hired his hitman to kill 2 foxes (One of which was up the duff - Sniff), the film crew went back a couple of weeks later, only to find that another fox had come along and eaten his third batch of chickens!!!! For God's sake, don't blame the fox, if the chickens weren't there, the fox wouldn't have been. And if the chickens were kept properly, the fox being there wouldn't have been a problem!

[fractionater]

Vermin the lot of them! - Rats, Pigeons, Foxes, Grey Squirrels..... shoot 'em all!

[MadWorld74]

Don't get me started on squirrels. If it wasn't for the fact they all seem to be on crack, there wouldn't be such an bad feeling against them. They are lovely. Squirrel Nutkin, MC Nuts?.....come on where's the love.....boys and girls....

[Tom]

Absolutely Madworld.

Vegetarians should also be culled as a matter of course. The world will be a much more balanced place.

[Amelie]

The trouble with squirrels is that if they get into your loft/attic they sound as though they are wearing hob-nailed boots, we had one when we lived in Sydenham and it used to shin up the outside of the house from a neaby tree, wave to my brother on the way, and then run riot over our heads. They also like to chew the insulation on cables, apparently if your cables are of a certain generation they taste nice to squirrels. My granddad suggested borrowing someone's terrier and leaving it up in the loft for a few days to scare off the tree rat.

[Nero]

Leave the foxes be! We have them screaming once or twice a month, and get the occasional watery poo in the garden, but it is a very small price to pay to be able to see these beautiful, wily, noble creatures doing the best they can in the big city. (I can feel a metaphor moment coming on.) Nero

[MadWorld74]

I agree Nero. Me loves foxes and squirrels (How dare you call them tree rats. I have a pet squirrel at home called 'Syril' and he would be thoroughly offended by your base remark)

Madworld74 that's me....

[MadWorld74]

...and just to set the record straight, Syril is a red squirrel. He baulks at the greys. They took over his land.

He Dispises them.

....................arggggghhhh it's only Tuesday................

[fractionater]

I caught a bloody Grey squirrel digging in my flower beds this am - and here's me thinking it was next doors cat!

Anyone got any tips for stopping the squiirels from doing this?

[Mark]

feed them to the foxes

[MadWorld74]

Stop it Mark!! you nasty boy. I bet you picked the wings off daddy long legs when you were small, didn't you!!!!and poured vinegar on slugs.....??!! Here is a picture of a squirrel I found having breakfast in my garden the other day....

amd yes... it is toast!...It may not come out.....pic may be too big...

[Keef]

Cool pic, and cool squirrel, like his/her style >:D

[MadWorld74]

I can't believe I posted a picture of a squirrel eating toast. I need to be put away!

[Tom]

there is stuff to discourage animals from beds and pots called 'gettoff' ''buggeroff' 'effoff' or something like that - from DIY shops.

Smells like the fragrance they use in public toilets - which would scare anything off.

Pegs on noses when in the garden though.

[David Mc]

I think it's called Reynardine - had to use it when one of the mangy blighters took up residence under my decking! And it's disgusting.

[81_colt]

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[fonson]

We have a vixen and her 2 cubs at the bottom of our garden, they seem pleasant enough.