Fox

[cheops]

I think there is not a more beautiful wild animal in the UK.. but I believe that is only so when they are healthy and in their natural habitat. Their natural habitat is in the countryside NOT in urban areas. When they are in the countryside they will eat and even decimate chickens etcetera but the fox cannot be blamed. And I agree with Bill HH, that fox hunting is more than barbaric.
However in urban areas I would vote for a 100% cull tomorrow given the chance. The reasons are ---they are not healthy - they are often unhealthy and ravaged with mange and 'bald' with such in many areas. That cannot be very pleasant for the fox to say the least. Secondly how many have you seen dying or dead on the roadside? The RSPCA reckon 50% of urban foxes are killed on our roads. That statistic itself is deeply depressing but consider how many of those 50% were not killed instantly. How many were suffering on the road with horrific injuries and maybe run over again and again till death offered relief.

[Verinda]

Our country foxes are so timid and secretive we hardly ever see one, I know they are there and we hear them screaming at mating time. I'd be so upset if my hens were killed, but then they are free range and it's one of the worries I have to live with.

[Hans Mum]

We have foxes, up on our plots, and they are actually a bit spooky, they just walk along the path, stop and stare at you, bold and brazen, and they leave 'messes ' !

THey do that on our site too they are not scared at all.......another problem is they are full of mange which is not good for dogs (one of our members dogs caught it & was quite ill with it)
I lost all my chickens to a fox attack last summer which was awful wouldnt be so bad if they ate them but they left most of them behind. I know its nature but still not nice.

[AllInContainers]

Foxes are bad if you are trying to raise anything they eat, otherwise they are good

[Dorothy rouse]

We have foxes, up on our plots, and they are actually a bit spooky, they just walk along the path, stop and stare at you, bold and brazen, and they leave 'messes ' !

[Linzy]

im biased i grew up on a poultry farm and ive seen what happens when a fox makes is way it to a chicken hut.

[noviceveggrower]

Hi,
I have a fox visiting my plot at night. I also have a shed load of frogs and toads down there to.
So if the fox is eating them it isn't denting my population I have to check an area before I cut the grass or use any shears. I find them everywhere in the fruit section and in the middle of my runner beans.
Don't foxes eat slugs and snails to?

[Veggielot]

I don't think it is a case of being good or bad they are just doing what comes naturally.

[Bill HH]

Well I loved seeing foxes in the wild but after they had killed a load of my chickens or eaten new born lambs I sort of went off them a bit. Mind you whenever that happened I always blamed myself, not the fox who was doing what comes naturaly.
What I did hate was seeing the hunt chasing a terrified fox across the field, shouting and whooping like a bunch of savages. They would go round the night before and block up many of the dens so it had nowhere to go to earth.

[Stu8706]

Hello all

Some thing had dug under my neighbours shed. I originally thought it was a rabbit, but I found a foot print and I'm pretty sure it's a fox.

I originally thought it would be good eating all the rabbits but will the fox end up eating the frogs?.

So are foxes good or bad?


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