On Jun 5, 3:59*am, Bill wrote:
Because the foxes way of hunting and providing food relies on storage.
He/she will kill as much as possible while the opportunity is there and
then take it away. *If your neighbour had waited a few days the fox
would have been back and removed most of its kills. *Trouble is people
intervene with the process and think it was just killing for the sake of
it and not eating what it had killed. *OK 40 is a shade excessive, maybe
it had a big family to support?

I've also heard a similar story about foxes breaking into hen coops
and just murdering all the hens. The foxes just go into a killing
frenzy and as you say, don't leave anything alive. The owner had just
used bog standard chicken wire and the fox had simply ran at it
repeatedly until it forced a way through.

I know about the hunting ban with horse/dogs, but are you allowed to
capture and/or shoot a fox if its on your land?

Reading the the news today that a fox snook into a house and mauled
two babies whilst they were asleep in their cots. Does rather make
wonder what would have happened if the mother? hadn't disturbed the
fox in the act.

Dave.