"Bastette" wrote in message
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Christina Websell wrote:

I would ban any TV programmes that suggest "why don't you feed your
local
foxes and here is someone doing it, look how nice they are"
Foxes are not nice in the conventional sense of trustworthy doggies.
They
are fine as wild animals.
I expect some people will carry on feeding but if they do, they might
come
into your house and bite your babies.

The problem is, even if only some people feed them, they become habituated
to *all* humans. Then, even people who have been responsible and have
refrained from feeding them might still get a visit from a fox. The foxes
aren't going to limit themselves to the babies of people who feed them.

So if someone is continuing to feed foxes or other wild animals, it can
affect everyone. It should be illegal!

It's unfortunate that it has to come to you bringing in the fox hitman,
but
on the other hand, that might reintroduce some fear in the surviving
foxes.

--
Joyce

It made me sick to do it as I like all animals. I did not want to have the
foxes shot, but needs must.
Something will need to be done about city foxes by the government soon.
My problem is that I live 5 miles from a city and the vermin controllers
trap them in the city and let them out two or three fields away from my
house.
Then they have a problem, no discarded fish and chips or McDonalds. Then
they get hungry and because they have no idea how to hunt in the countryside
they make themselves a nuisance around my chickens, and then they find
themselves at foxy RB.
Sad, isn't it?
We need a fox control programme in our cities which doesn't involve letting
them out *in the countryside* in the hope they can survive. ~They can't.