Talkback: Fox trot
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We have peacocks in our garden and the foxes have had two of them over the years. They peacocks normally roost high in the oak tree, but for reasons unknown to us, on 2 occasions they haven't and therefore fallen victim. Although this makes me sad, I see it as nature taking its course. The fox has to eat, and is not aware that these are pets to us, or even someone's livelihood. I have seen film of foxes that have killed all the chickens in a roost. They may eat some there but then they take them away to bury and store. Of course if they are disturbed during this process, the job will not be completed and it seems that a pointless killing spree has taken place.
I try to stay true to the belief that nature is nature, and foxes eat chickens (and peacocks), just as we eat chickens.
I try to stay true to the belief that nature is nature, and foxes eat chickens (and peacocks), just as we eat chickens.
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Then there's the smelly, gooey deposits they leave on the lawn and garden plants. Surprised they bother to jump 2 foot off the ground to do it in a favourite place on a walled bed!
I'm fed up of picking up litter and old bones, filling in holes in the heather bed and picking up branches of wrecked plants that are barely surviving having been 'jumped on'.
Give me a gun and I'll shoot 'em!
You might come back as a fox next time.
There are far too many urban foxes which are not naturally native to towns but because of the easy pickings from people's rubbish we are over run with them. If Rabies came into our country again we would be in serious trouble, I remember the last outbreak and how distressing is was to have so much of our wild life shot.