[jaykay]

I've heard that story before, years ago - that a fox climbed up the stairs and attacked a baby in its bedroom.

Hmmm, maybe the biggest bogeyman we have now in Britain is a fox.

It seems unlikely but hey, perhaps people are making them too tame.

[sabrina]

Well I quite believe that it was a fox that got the baby. Being small fox would only see the child as food. We have had the experience of what happens when a hand reared fox is dumped back in the countryside. Not scared of me or my 2 german shepherds who were in the back garden just feet away from fox with chicken in its mouth while i screamed and shouted at it. that fox came back 3 times and each time I chased it for its life. In the end farmer friend shot it as it was in the middle of trying to help itself to one of his cats. People in the village feed them and they come and go just like stray dogs when ever they like, sunbath in their gardens in full view. Being a wild animal you can never tell what they will do. Look at the dingo who took the baby all those years ago. If a pet dog can go for a child so can the fox.

[scarlettoara]

there was a tame fox in the village up from us last year. he would walk around the village like a dog, he would sit in the street while people videoed him for utube etc. my friend had hens in her garden and he went in the there, killed a chicken and sat on the grass to eat it, infront of the kids/family too. no fear what so ever. in the end he got shot.
a tame fox is dangerous as the wild killing instinct is still there, but the flight one isnt.

[colliewoman]

New campaign to legalise the hunt in 3.... 2.... 1.......


Sorry, I'm a cynic I know but it ain't just the fox that stinks in all this.

[rispainfarm]

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.

We only hear of the attacks on humans, there are many many attacks on pets and near misses with humans.

[RUSTYME]

There 'may' be many attacks and near misses on pets etc , but if they aren't reported and validated then they are just speculation and no more .

[Reg henderson]

I tend to think that the urban fox, is a fox in the wrong place , it is there as it can survive . eliminate the food and stop feeding them and after a few years they will revert back to doing what foxes do (hunt rabbits and take your prize chickens) . I mind chatting to a game keeper that was out lamping foxes one night , he turned on his lamp in the middle of a field and couldnt believe it when around 12 came running at him , he thinks its urban fox that have been taken up the glen and dropped off. the lamp going on must be like a security light going on and they think they will be fed . stop feeding them and they will move on. We are doing the same with seagulls , look how far they are inland now , our program with them is to take the eggs as they nest every year in the same place they are hatched . The program is to keep taking the eggs till the ones that were hatched there die and then the link will be stopped and cut down the population of gull nesting on roofs . as a gull lives for 30 years this is how long it will take to get results . same can be done if people dont feed foxes they are wild animals and will fend for themselves and move to where food is (in the countryside where they should be

[bigchicken]

But that will never happen as there is that much waste human food that its easy pickings for the fox thats why there are so many urban foxes. No control so the urban fox will do well enough evolution at work.

[NormandyMary]

Anyone else think that fortnightly collections of bins could be a contributing factor to this fox problem, as the bins are fuller tempting the foxes into the towns for quick and easy pickings.