Urban fox friend or foe?
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Miserableold-ish git
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bigbadwolf
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Trawlerman
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Perhaps Monsieur Reynard was around in SE26 before homo sap...So what...? So were all number of diseases, bacteria, rats....
What? Are foxes now claiming squatters rights?
They belong in rural settings...Not chewing the faces off local babies in town or dining on pussies in Sydenham.
When you describe Homo Sap as 'sensible, wonderful' , you are, of course, being ironic. But consider, we have come up with those concepts and we have invented a means of expressing them. That is sensible...And ironic, and...rather wonderful.
What? Are foxes now claiming squatters rights?
They belong in rural settings...Not chewing the faces off local babies in town or dining on pussies in Sydenham.
When you describe Homo Sap as 'sensible, wonderful' , you are, of course, being ironic. But consider, we have come up with those concepts and we have invented a means of expressing them. That is sensible...And ironic, and...rather wonderful.
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Wispy Wonder
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I'm with Willy and Darwin on this - I've got three cats at varying stages of age, weight and stupidity. I keep them in at night to keep them safe but beyond that, when they do go out, they're on their own. Just because we're at the top of the food chain, the same doesn't necessarily apply to our pets.
I'd be gutted if one of them were hurt/eaten but that's the risk all cat owners face. They seem to dodge traffic pretty well anyway.
The only thing I hate about foxes is their copious crapping. We get fresh deposits most days in our garden. Human wee doesn't put them off either.
I'd be gutted if one of them were hurt/eaten but that's the risk all cat owners face. They seem to dodge traffic pretty well anyway.
The only thing I hate about foxes is their copious crapping. We get fresh deposits most days in our garden. Human wee doesn't put them off either.
This morning I saw a fox out of the kitchen window, eating from a pile of dropped food - I thought it was put out by someone, but later realised, by the further mess down the road, that it was debris dropped by the useless bin men - anyway, I filmed said fox on my mobile for just over a minute (this wasn't Sydenham, it's at the top of Taymount Rise, Forest Hill - we haven't moved to Sydenham yet) - he scarperd as I opened the front door... and following on from this, looking out of the first floor window yesterday, I was watching the little birdies flitting around the feeders we have out, when I noticed a spray of feathers rising on a draught, and looked further down to see a small black cat landing on the floor with a blue tit in it's mouth! I was amazed at the cats agility to have caught a small bird mid flight.
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Trawlerman
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I saw a whole family of mummy fox and five fox cubs playing in our neighbour's garden a few days ago, here they are enjoying the sunshine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcT6WDsmxwQ
Cat-killing, bin-bag ripping, shoe-stealing menaces they may be, but those fox cubs are soooo cute!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcT6WDsmxwQ
Cat-killing, bin-bag ripping, shoe-stealing menaces they may be, but those fox cubs are soooo cute!
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Trawlerman
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Yellow Peril
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A grisly discovery.
An hour or so ago, I looked out of my window and spotted a bundle of something furry nestling beside my garage. Thinking it might be something a cat had killed and left, I went to investigate. To my horror, it was a severed fox's head with no sign anywhere of the rest of the body!
I was about to deal with it, when a young cub came along, had a chew on the bloodied stump before trying to drag it off.
It's now in my bin, to ensure that I don't unexpectedly find something crunchy and fly-blown underfoot at any time over the next few days.
Does anyone have any idea about what might have done this? I don't think it would have been the cat. He's looking far too innocent.
I was about to deal with it, when a young cub came along, had a chew on the bloodied stump before trying to drag it off.
It's now in my bin, to ensure that I don't unexpectedly find something crunchy and fly-blown underfoot at any time over the next few days.
Does anyone have any idea about what might have done this? I don't think it would have been the cat. He's looking far too innocent.
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Yellow Peril
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Hmm, it was a bit of a gnarly stump, especially after the wee cub had taken a few bites. It's now a putrified sweaty head - until the pest control guys eventually come and fish it out of my bin.lbere wrote:Gosh, Im not sure how close you looked but was it a 'clean' beheading or a 'severed' beheading?
Judging by the expression on its face, it wasn't best pleased to be parted from its bod.
I'm sure I've said it before on here but I will say it again anyway. The foxes around here are sneaky beggars. I have had shoes stolen and chewed up to be found in my own and the neighbours' gardens AND I had a fox who stayed a whole day in our place once as it got locked inside! Also, I woke up one night to a fox scrabbling its paw around my bedside table (we used to be able to sleep with the bedroom door open to the garden in the summer but not anymore!)