Was visiting some friends in our horsey group late on evening. Suddenly the ladies dog barked, she jumped up and said goodness, he must be here for his supper. She proceeded to butter two slices of brown bread and went out to the front of the farmhouse. A fox was waiting impatiently for his bread and butter. He came every evening she said. This was a farmers wife too!!!
The people at the other end of our field, have apparantly been hand feeding foxes for years. That is the reason many a summers day I trip over foxes curled up in the long hay field, and they do not move. They are like pets. I even clapped my hands to shoo one off, and it just sat there looking at me.
Believe me, there would be an uproar if foxes were all culled. But a lot of these people have not lost livestock. Personally I have no objection to foxes or any other animal, so long as they leave me hens alone
