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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!!)

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).

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!

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.
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

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...

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