Horny foxes

[Miss P]

About 4 nights ago, the foxes were 'at it' again in the streets around North Cross Road at about 5am. As usual I was woken from a deep sleep thinking that there were murders taking place outside. To my surprise, I then heard 'pop, pop, pop'. I can only assume that someone with more gumption/less patience than I has purchased a BB gun or similar. The screeching stopped & I am eternally grateful to my well armed neighbour. I assume no harm was done to the animals, but the noise drove them to someone else's street....

[KalamityKel]

How nice

[Miss P]

What, saying thank you?

[karter]

I heard them screaming their heads off early hours on Saturday morning in that vicinity.

Ear plugs or airgun.

[steveo]

Apparently, when they feel unwelcome, they move on and an air gun can be a great persuader

[????]

I guess it's better than "SHUT THE FACK UP YOU NOISY FECKERS" which has tended to be my MO

[HonaloochieB]

May I ask that when people give threads ambiguous titles like this they add the caveat 'the animal kind' or somesuch.

I opened this one expecting a discussion about the relative merits ofGirls Aloud and The Pussycat Dolls.

Second time I've been misled this week, that Stray Cats one had nothing to do with the elaborately coiffed popabilly band.

Play the game, a chap can only stand so much disappointment.

[Mick Mac]

Apparently the man fox gets "locked together" during the big act with the foxy lady - is this true.

[Miss P]

I apologise HB, I didn't mean to mislead. Guess I just wanted to make sure people read my posting. Pathetic, I know. I was worried that Horny Canidae (yes, I've wiki'd) or Sexy Canids may not have been as interesting...

[SteveT]

Mick Mac wrote:- Apparently the man fox gets "locked together" during the big act with the foxy lady - is this true.

It's true with dogs, the male can not move away during congress until the bitch releases him.

[Amelie]

Mick Mac

Yes it is true, the vixen contracts around the dog - apparently rather painful, hence the noise.

[dbboy]

oh to be a dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kells]

I think it's true for pigs as well - boars have a corkscrew shaped penis. That can't be easy.

Anyway, back to the foxes.......

[HonaloochieB]

Miss P Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> I apologise HB, I didn't mean to mislead. Guess I

> just wanted to make sure people read my posting.

> Pathetic, I know. I was worried that Horny

> Canidae (yes, I've wiki'd) or Sexy Canids may not

> have been as interesting...

No apology necessary Miss P, and not pathetic in the least.

But I reckon that a thread titled 'Horny Canidae' or 'Sexy Canids' could run to a four or five pager.

Just a thought.

[Narnia]

Amazed that shooting these creatures is considered ok as they wake us up! Would you like to be be shot on those grounds?

[KalamityKel]

My thoughts too Declan.

Just because theyve disturbed your slumber for doing a completely natural (to them) act its acceptable to shoot them or disturb them pushing them elsewhere to disturb someone else?

As I said before - NICE

[Miss P]

Foxes are vermin. For heaven's sake. There was no fox blood, so I think they were scared off by the noise as opposed to shot through the head. I don't like having rats or mice scuttling around my skirting boards at night, should I avoid disturbing them, too? I'm not that fond of spiders either, but at least they're nice and quiet.

[globeartichoke]

you need a bloke (with testicles, eunuchs don't work) to wee where they come into your garden. its a scent thing - early morning pee is best as its stronger, not after the pub, and you need to go in the same spot a few times to make it work

the fox population has increased this year because of the mild summer and the increasing amount of food waste left around.

part of the racket is now no longer due to mating but fighting as the adults kick this year's litter out and they encounter other foxes territories - this is all the barking, running around and chasing in the middle of the night - and also demonstrates there are too many foxes for too little space, but winter, roads and mange will thin out the weak ones and the population will regulate itself.

[doughnutman]

Mick Mac wrote:- Apparently the man fox gets "locked together" during the big act with the foxy lady

I wonder whether they ran off together like this when they were shot at the other night? LoL

D

[Sue]

Well I don't mind the noise, I think it's great we have animals living in a city, and it's better than the noise of screaming creatures being carried off by owls I used to get when I lived in the country.

I have a young fox asleep in my garden as I type, and I think it's great.

Live and let live unless they're actually harming you, that's what I say.

Edited to add: And if someone was shooting at them intending to hit them, I think that's bloody disgraceful, frankly.