howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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"attacks on humans being a myth except for very rare occasions."
The same could be said of the Great White Shark yet a surfer provided a snack served-up on it's own platter the other day.
Being a dog 'owner' sometimes means that over-ripe meat is thrown out and we've noticed that our wheelie-bin, but no other, has it's lid ringed with bight marks. Picky and chews-y our urban foxes.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Finally someone who talks sense i love foxes i spend hours in my garden in the small hours watching them ,in my garden other night i had a mum and two gorgeous cubs so cute and playful and yes i do feed them , and yes he is also correct that cats are evil as i have one who loving threw at my feet on my return from a night out a dead mouse upon my arrival at my doorstep, also he has done the same thing inside the house with the same species and a seagull lovingly left on my doorstep!!!!!!! not forgetting the lizards, crickets and slow worms we have buried ( yes i bury all animals my killer cats end lives of)
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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Foxes ate our rabbits and we were always so so careful but one day when they were in their outdoor run, somehow, they got to them and that was that
I never forgave them
Our cat is always bringing us pressies too Mel, It makes me sad but I guess thats nature.
weve had rabbits 8 at one point never bothered them and got chickens at back of us they still acounted for well until my cat brings us one lol
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Chris Packham eh? Eco warrior of the highest order. Someone who appears to prefer animals to humans. A person concerned about rising seas and polar bears amongst foxes and other vermin. Someone who believes the world is over populated. In fact he supports China's one child per family policy. Some even odder ideas from this chap includes giving tax breaks to those who opt for small families.
If you ask him what day of the week it is I'd suggest checking ceefax afterwards.
So he doesn't believe the stories about fox attacks? Ahhh bless that might make lickel foxy woxy look bad and we wouldn't want that would we?
Oh he also works for the BBC natural history and climate change scare department which speaks volumes about him.
No comment to that im just going to walk away from this thread wont be arguing end of.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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you have shot yourself in the foot there philip, the packham cove is no fan of our cuddly household pets and is more likely side with a boa constrictor than a polar bear.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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I disagree Howard. He's on record as an extremist in these matters and in fact revels in it (more I suspect for the publicity than anything else). He's the replacement for Bill Oddball, sorry Bill Oddie who is equally a controversial figure. That's the way these things work in television land. You have to have a unique selling point and Packham's is what you see and expect.
Strip down the bare essentials of his public face and you see just another ordinary bloke with some otherwise strange views on things.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,895
Talking of rabbits here is a cautionary tale.
Many years ago our elderly neighbour kept loosing his baby rabbits which he thought were being taken by rats. That is until we saw our cat climbing out of an unseen hole in his shed roof with a baby bunny in his mouth. We repaired the shed roof that evening for him but we never told him what we had seen.
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Guest 700- Registered: 11 Jun 2010
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Many years ago an elderly neighbour of mine told me that her (young but feisty) cat had brought a full-grown duck into the house, "backwards through the cat flap". It had killed it.
What should she do? She knew it had come from a local pond. She said to me "My dear I got a spade and buried it in the garden."
I know what I would have done - roast duck on the menu.
I guess the owner thought the fox had been again!
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the worst thing my cat has done was to jump onto the windowsill to proudly show me a pigeon half her size again between her jaws.
i cannot imagine how she could jump 3 feet off the ground with it in her mouth.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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The pigeon was still alive and managed to flap it's wings Howard?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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conjures up a wonderful picture philip.
getting back to foxes, i have seen one in the ten years i have lived here, whilst in london they were everwhere.
i know that hilll foxes are nearby as houses on both sides of me have had rabbits ripped to shreds.
the urban foxes are a problem because of ripping up bin bags but i do not think they are a danger to humans.
Foxes may in time get braver the more better we get recycling food waste etc but Chris packham is right in saying we are wasteful so way not feed the animals ????
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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have to agree with you on the fox's
little threat to humans
maybe they case a mess sometimes
but so do humans and they should know better
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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arhhhh mr fox either you like him or you loathe him.to leave him be or to set the hounds on him,quite a quandry.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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maybe you to would like hounds set on you brian????
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Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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kieth,just giveing an opinion.
oh by the way kieth i have hounds after me all the time,....news hounds that is.
