[deepinthewoods]

i do feel for that poor baby who had its finger pulled off by a fox, mother had to kick the thing off as it was dragging babe out the door.

boris has called for people to stop feeding them, someone has propsed a cull.

perhaps channel 4's 'foxes live' program wont be shown again...
i wonder if now this has happened all these stoopid townies and animal rescue charity efforts will realise their mistake and start trapping and despatching instead of illegally moving them to rural areas.

over the last few months it has been noticable that the forum has loads of fox attack threads.

hopefully, something will be done. but i doubt it, the rspca will probably jump in and prosecute people instead.

[Berkshire Boy]

Very true, a horrible thing to happen and lets hope someone has the balls to do something about it. On the news one of the guys they spoke to said he was coming home early in the morning and saw 25 foxes on the road, they are going to have to cull surely.
It won't be long before someone is actually killed by one and most probably it will be a baby due to size and lets hope all the bunny huggers can live with that on their conscience

[Fowgill Farm]

Hmmm hate to be cynical BUT was it really a fox that bit the baby   reasons why
how did it get in the house, weather is awful this time of year you wouldn't be leaving your doors wide open? would a fox really climb a flight of stairs to find a baby and why wasn't it spotted sooner by the parents what were they doing?
Don't know why but things just don't quite add up with this one.
Agree that town foxes just shouldn't be rounded up and dumped in the countryside, they can't cope so should be PTS humanely.
Mandy

[Berkshire Boy]

Apparently it got in the back door which was waiting to be repaired by the council. I must admit when I first read it I thought it was a compensation scam but that is probably because I'm an old cynic.

[ppd]

I also wondered how the fox got into the house in the first place, but it could have come in through a cat flap I suppose.
Wasn't there a case a couple of years ago that a fox was found in a babys room?
But something definately needs to be done.

[RUSTYME]

The numbers of urban foxes in the 1960's hadn't changed since the 1930's . Since the 60's the numbers crashed due to mange . Most places , the numbers recovered , others have not done so yet . Other places the numbers have grown , but so to have the towns and cities too !
Truth is very few 'incedents' with foxes occur , but the myth grows , so do the headlines .
Parents cause far more harm to children than foxes do , when do we start to cull them ?

[Beeducked]

Have to say I'm with Rusty on this.


Fox attacks are amazingly rare. On the basis of this all domestic dogs in homes with children should be culled or rehomed. Deaths from pets are rare but more frequent than fox attacks.

[SteveHants]

The numbers of urban foxes in the 1960's hadn't changed since the 1930's . Since the 60's the numbers crashed due to mange . Most places , the numbers recovered , others have not done so yet . Other places the numbers have grown , but so to have the towns and cities too !
Truth is very few 'incedents' with foxes occur , but the myth grows , so do the headlines .
Parents cause far more harm to children than foxes do , when do we start to cull them ?

Difference now is, nutters feed em.

[anderso]

heard someone say today - "that they should allow fox hunting in the towns" am waiting to see whats left after a pack of hounds has gone through someones garden. 

[bazzais]

I'm not into the idea of using this as an excuse to legalise fox hunting - its a numbers game out there - if it can happen it probably will, its not a reason.  Infact the logic actually harms the pro lobby.

[RUSTYME]

I think some 'nutters' always have .
I grew up on the outskirts of London , next to Northolt airport , and i knew people who fed hedgehogs , badgers , feral cats and foxes .
My mother grew up in Acton , and she knew people back in the late 1930's who fed foxes . Her mum worked for a doctor who had a pet fox in the 1920's , there used to be a picture of nan with the fox !
 Not really that much that hasn't happened before . Just now there are more ways for corrupt people with 'agendas' to get on tv or in the paper etc etc
.
Perhapse people like Boris Johnson should try to eliminate the vermin in Westminster . Plenty there that cause far more death and injury than any fox .

[smiley bucket]

From twitter - "since they stopped fox hunting, children are eating horses and foxes are eating children".
 

[plumseverywhere]

Just read in the Daily Fail that the RSPCA have a leaflet advising people what to leave in their garden in towns if they want to encourage foxes!! chicken and potatoes apparently 

Being a sceptical person, ahem, I did wonder if maybe a family dog did this and the family are trying to get out of having the dog destroyed but that's just me. Always suspicious. Hard to believe the foxy went all the way upstairs and knew what to do, where to go etc...

I had 2 of these making a new litter of the things right under my bedroom window early this morning. Scared me silly.

[Daisys Mum]

[quote author=plumseverywhere

Being a sceptical person, ahem, I did wonder if maybe a family dog did this and the family are trying to get out of having the dog destroyed but that's just me. Always suspicious. Hard to believe the foxy went all the way upstairs and knew what to do, where to go etc...



Mmm, yes I did wonder that too.

[tizaala]

I had 2 of these making a new litter of the things right under my bedroom window early this morning. Scared me silly.

Don't be scared Plumbs, it's called sex , tell you all about it when you're a big girl..