Fox warning

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  12 September 2013     20:39244465
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  was told earlier that a vixen and family have moved into an overgrown garden in heathfield avenue.
  
  without wishing to cause alarm it entered a house yesterday with eyes on a snack size puppy therein, so people living nearby should take care until the problem is moved on.
• Brian Dixon

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  12 September 2013     20:45244466
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  have they contacted the rspca or an animal rescue center.
• Guest 696

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  13 September 2013     00:01244480
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  Foxes visit my back garden, which is at the base of Western Heights.
  The other week I observed a fox walking through the town centre past St. Mary's Church during the early evening hours.
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  13 September 2013     09:39244497
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  not a case for a rescue brian, the foxes are not in any danger or in ill health.
• Guest 657

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  13 September 2013     10:56244505
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  We have a young fox that sleeps outside the front door sometimes. It scared the window cleaner silly!
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• Guest 745

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  13 September 2013     11:41244508
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  You cannot domesticate the fox they are predatory ,if you encourage them they can be a danger for small children
  
  If you have them coming in the garden bleach solution will help stop them.
• Guest 767

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  13 September 2013     12:14244518
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  I have enjoyed foxes in my garden for years, see my pics on the wildlife sightings thread, I don't see them as a problem atall.
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• Guest 745

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  13 September 2013     12:35244522
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  If the fox see man as non threatening ,a small child becomes a possible Dinner
  
  I love the fox to ,,but from a distance .
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  13 September 2013     12:47244524
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  i think the fox threat has been overplayed in the media, the numbers of them have have dramatically increased in towns and cities over the past few years so inevitably there will be rogue ones.
  
  attacks by foxes on humans palls beside the number and severity of attacks by dogs.
  
  councils issue guidelines on how to deter foxes from coming into our gardens.
• Guest 767

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  13 September 2013     14:30244541
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  Keith, (#8)When was a child last eaten by a fox in Dover, or anywhere else for that matter?
  Phil Wyborn - Brown at www.wybornphotography.co.uk
• Keith Sansum1

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  13 September 2013     14:32244543
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  phil
  well said
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• Guest 745

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  13 September 2013     18:06244559
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  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fox-bites-off-babys-finger-cot-attack-222521317.html#o0pAHcM
• Brian Dixon

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  13 September 2013     19:29244584
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  from the bbc news desk.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21399709