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Support your local urban fox. It eats rodents, slugs, small mamals. Good for the garden.
"Andy" wrote in message ... For those of you who have an interest in the urban fox and its problems of survival. http://www.thefoxproject.fsnet.co.uk/ The urban fox, and indeed the rural fox, is beneficial to have around if you are a keen gardener, or for that matter, live any where rodents are found. Not only does this asset keep the garden clear of slugs it also keeps the rodent population down. It feeds on mice, rats and other small mamals. It will also eat road kills and any discarded food like pizzas thrown away by the local drunk. in other words given the chance it will improve your environment for free. Take time to visit the above web site. It would help if you could also put dog food out for it during in-clement weather. Andy shame he can't do the same for the roads |
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When I lived on the mainland I knew all about the urban fox.
He used to visit my garden most nights and crap on my lawn, my back steps and all around my pond. When I went pick a cabbage from the vegetable patch I would discover that the fox had peed on it and it stank to high heaven and had to be thrown away. I used to be woken up during the night by packs of foxes running down my road, fighting and howling. If I put a rubbish sack out for the dustmen it, and that of my neighbours, would be ripped to pieces and the contents strewn about. The worst of all was at the chicken farm where I often spent weekends. 22 hens in the broody pen, all with their heads bitten off. Yes, I support the urban fox, preferably by the neck. Long live fox hunting. |
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Spaceman wrote:
When I lived on the mainland I knew all about the urban fox. He used to visit my garden most nights and crap on my lawn, my back steps and all around my pond. When I went pick a cabbage from the vegetable patch I would discover that the fox had peed on it and it stank to high heaven and had to be thrown away. I used to be woken up during the night by packs of foxes running down my road, fighting and howling. If I put a rubbish sack out for the dustmen it, and that of my neighbours, would be ripped to pieces and the contents strewn about. The worst of all was at the chicken farm where I often spent weekends. 22 hens in the broody pen, all with their heads bitten off. Yes, I support the urban fox, preferably by the neck. Long live fox hunting. The last urban fox I saw was trotting between the buildings at Bart's Hospital: the local hunt don't seem to have been on the ball there. Whom should I ring? I'd love to see a pack of hounds in full cry through the streets of London: the tourists would love it, too. I've never seen a pack of foxes, let alone one which ran down the road fighting: that was quite a red-letter day for your naturalist's diary. Did they really howl down your way? -- I thought that was wolves. And they usually crap at particular places: your indiscriminate shitter was an interesting case, so I hope you drew the ethologists' attention to it. The scent-marking of each individual cabbage may be unusual, too: I think we could have a modest contribution to science here. I only know about country foxes, of course; but my infuriated observations suggest magpies and cats are often to blame for depredations among the rubbish bags. Biting the chicken's heads off? Yes, it's happened to mine, I'm afraid; but only when it was my own fault. Ducks, too. It gets worse when earths are stopped, and the foxes have to travel outside their territory; but you know that. Mike. |
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Sacha wrote:
On 23/11/04 11:02 pm, in article , "Mike Lyle" wrote: snip Biting the chicken's heads off? Yes, it's happened to mine, I'm afraid; but only when it was my own fault. Ducks, too. It gets worse when earths are stopped, and the foxes have to travel outside their territory; but you know that. Just curious - what do you mean by "my own fault"? I forgot to shut the door! Mike. |
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