Foxes

[Poacher]

I’m wondering if there might be a silver lining to Accy’s throwing food out for the foxes. So the rats go for the food and then foxes catch the rats and everybody’s happy.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Funny you should mention that. I scatter a small handful of dry dog food most nights, occasionally supplemented by small pieces of stale wholemeal bread spread with peanut butter (badgers love it, but foxes are now liking it too). My trailcams record foxes, badgers, cats (far too many) and the odd wood mouse. Almost never see a rat! I've just checked back, and the last time I recorded a rat was at 20:29 on 29/5/2025.
Our resident vixen, despite limping badly on her left hind leg, dived out of camera shot and reappeared with a rat. Some high-pitched squealing, abruptly cut short, and she had a dead rat in her jaws, which she carried off to her cubs. Good girl!

 

[Rusty Nails]

My daughter lives in north London and the place has loads of foxes. She is always having to clear up fox sh*t as she doesn't want my granddaughter to get any of it on her when she's in the garden. The school caretaker has to clear up the stuff every day from the school grounds to protect the kids.

 

[Accy cyclist]

I think your wrong it’s more likely to be the Chief Constable.

Yes, true.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Funny you should mention that. I scatter a small handful of dry dog food most nights, occasionally supplemented by small pieces of stale wholemeal bread spread with peanut butter (badgers love it, but foxes are now liking it too). My trailcams record foxes, badgers, cats (far too many) and the odd wood mouse. Almost never see a rat! I've just checked back, and the last time I recorded a rat was at 20:29 on 29/5/2025.
Our resident vixen, despite limping badly on her left hind leg, dived out of camera shot and reappeared with a rat. Some high-pitched squealing, abruptly cut short, and she had a dead rat in her jaws, which she carried off to her cubs. Good girl!

Just imagine eating a rat!🙄 🤢 🤮 Especially an uncooked/raw one!🤢 🤮 🤢 🤮

 

[Rusty Nails]

Just imagine eating a rat!🙄 🤢 🤮 Especially an uncooked/raw one!🤢 🤮 🤢 🤮

I know. Why don't the foxes season and grill them before eating them?

 

[Accy cyclist]

I know. Why don't the foxes season and grill them before eating them?

Like they do in some of those minging take-aways you mean!😏

 

[Mike Ayling]

The majority of foxes have gone urban. Myself and Mrs W went to see Bruce Springsteen at Hamden Park and we were unable to get a taxi back to our accommodation so we had leg it across Glasgow. We must have 20 plus foxes on our travels.
Yet here in North Yorkshire surrounded by farm land I have yet to see one and similar in rural East Yorkshire. Yet go in to to outskirts of Kingston of Dull and there’s dozens of them.

Here in Oz the landed gentry imported a few maybe 150 years ago so they could hunt and now we have shiploads of them. Like you wrote they have become city slickers here too.
Oh and they also brought rabbits which are now a nation wide pest.

 

[Electric_Andy]

Here in Oz the landed gentry imported a few maybe 150 years ago so they could hunt and now we have shiploads of them. Like you wrote they have become city slickers here too.
Oh and they also brought rabbits which are now a nation wide pest.

You should introduce something that eats rabbits, foxes, mice and cane toads. Maybe genetically modify a new type of badger?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Like they do in some of those minging take-aways you mean!😏

Rat and chips.

 

[Drago]

Perhaps put the dingos on steroids?

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Like they do in some of those minging take-aways you mean!😏

When I was at University in Nottingham there was an article in the local paper saying that the Police had raided a local takeaway

and found several dead dogs hanging in the freezer!!!!

I didn't believe it at first - it is an obvious urban myth - but someone showed me the paper itself!!!

 

[captain nemo1701]

My daughter lives in north London and the place has loads of foxes. She is always having to clear up fox sh*t as she doesn't want my granddaughter to get any of it on her when she's in the garden. The school caretaker has to clear up the stuff every day from the school grounds to protect the kids.

Yep, they poop on my flower beds (so does the local alpha moggy). Mind you, one morning when i entered my dark kitchen I saw the garden security light come on, fox wandered into garden, had a sniff about, then jumped over the fence - 5ft high panels. Impressed with that.