[News] Do you or your neighbours feed foxes?

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

We live next to a wood so there are quite a few foxes around. I always used to put all our food waste on a plate at night and it would be gone in the morning. Then one morning I went past the plate, which had been licked clean, only to find that the fox had had a dump right in the middle of it. No more food has been put out since.

 

[Wardy's twin]

a Danish couple I know feed foxes and have them mixing with their rabbit

there is plenty of evidence of them interacting in a friendly manner with other animals....

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[sydney]

There was an excellent documentary on the other week about the wide variety of wildlife in London. There was one old dear who not only fed urban foxes by lobbing food out of the window of her first floor council flat, she'd trained them to SIT! before she lobbed them the food

was that the one with the fallow deer in Ealing i think at 4 a.m ....?? amazing...!! about 30 of the buggers ..!!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

was that the one with the fallow deer in Ealing i think at 4 a.m ....?? amazing...!! about 30 of the buggers ..!!

It's this one...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...d-20112012-14-the-unnatural-history-of-london

The fox-training woman is @ 29 minutes, the Richmond deer is @ 35 minutes. Well worth a watch.

 

[Napper]

One of my daughters lives in a cottage or a farm just outside Shrewsbury. She has a small / medium sized garden where she keeps 2 ducks as pets - Jemima and Florence.
When she got home on Sunday afternoon at about 4pm one was dead and the other wandering about in a dazed state with several chunks bitten out of her.
We know this was a FOX because no attempt was made to eat either duck - they were killed for fun.
Apparently there are only 3 creatures on the planet that kill for fun [not just to eat] - Cats, Humans and Foxes.
I understand why farmers supported the hunt to keep fox numbers down

Anyway, Jemima survived and is now recovering with her new step sister Pippa

Jesus Christ @ this

 

[Napper]

Quite like them .

That picture of the toddlers injuries though. Couple of scratches.

Not quite the ripped to death injuries the article suggests would of happened.

They were probably playing. If they weren't the kid would be ripped immediately.

Story doesn't add up

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Quite like them .

That picture of the toddlers injuries though. Couple of scratches.

Not quite the ripped to death injuries the article suggests would of happened.

They were probably playing. If they weren't the kid would be ripped immediately.

Story doesn't add up

I agree. The headline Could have ripped my baby etc.

I've had worst scratches trying to get my cat into her box, to go to the vets.

 

[pearl]

I knew someone who fed foxes & badgers every night in Woodingdean. He would go out onto the field at midnight every night & the creatures would come to meet him.

and? I'm on tender-hooks here!

 

[pearl]

We live next to a wood so there are quite a few foxes around. I always used to put all our food waste on a plate at night and it would be gone in the morning. Then one morning I went past the plate, which had been licked clean, only to find that the fox had had a dump right in the middle of it. No more food has been put out since.

Maybe it was a way to thank you? At least they didn't do it in your garden

 

[Thunder Bolt]

and? I'm on tender-hooks here!

I didn't realise there was an ending apart from the fact the chap is dead now. He used to feed quite a few of them. They used to sit waiting for him if he was late.

 

[SK1NT]

After years and years of seeing them around SW london i still don't tire of seeing them roam about at night. Such a beautiful sight.

I have been known to feed them.

 

[Arthritic Toe]

a Danish couple I know feed foxes and have them mixing with their rabbit

In a pie?

 

[pearl]

I didn't realise there was an ending apart from the fact the chap is dead now. He used to feed quite a few of them. They used to sit waiting for him if he was late.

sorry, got a bit carried away .... that's a lovely story though

 

[SAC]

How many children have been attacked by foxes I would hazard a guess it is a lot less than have been attacked by dogs or knocked down by cars etc.

Not blinkered at all , a fox is a wild animal and needs to be treated with caution but that does not mean it needs to be exterminated.

What is your view on adders , should they be killed on sight as they are poisonous?

Venomous