Fox menace

not_loaded

mrcol1000 wrote: »

…If you really are worried about foxes in your area then just don't feed them, ask your neighbours to clear up mess in their gardens or report them to the council. If there is no food source for the foxes then like rats and mice they will go elsewhere.

What, like in a back door, then upstairs, looking for food?

margaretclare

This is the time of year when the adult foxes still have young ones to feed, although the youngsters are growing and getting boisterous, they're still not independent.

The spread of housing into previously green belt areas has forced all our wildlife either to adapt or not survive. I live in a 1930s bungalow. To my knowledge foxes have been in the habit of coming through my garden for many (fox) generations and have certainly done so all the time I've lived here (20 years this year). We've recently seen a badger for the first time - I'm told by the local badger group that it's likely to be a young male who's been kicked out of the family group at the local sett and told to go off and be independent.

We sometimes see a fox at night when the security light at the back comes on as a result of movement and illuminates the garden. Most of them are so nervous - they skitter off at the slightest sound and are certainly scared of cats. I've seen them back down before a local cat.

All that I've read about foxes in the last day or two does not square with my experience of them - very shy, nervous creatures, beautiful to look at but not ones you could get close to.

If we were to put this house on the market, is it suggested - from the tone of post # 1 in this thread - that we should put a warning, that foxes come through this garden, it is one of their regular nightly routes for foraging?

mrcol1000

not_loaded wrote: »

What, like in a back door, then upstairs, looking for food?

Anyone who has lived in London will know that leaving any door open unattended is asking for trouble from all kinds of pests inculding two legged ones.

margaretclare

mrcol1000 wrote: »

Anyone who has lived in London will know that leaving any door open unattended is asking for trouble from all kinds of pests including two legged ones.

I would have thought that the two-legged variety were more of a likely pest than any animal, and not only in London.

We were warned by crime prevention officers about leaving our bedroom window open a few years ago on a hot evening, when someone small and agile managed to climb through. Fortunately he or she only got away with a fiver, but if I'd had large sums in my handbag it would have gone just the same. Some people have lost large sums of money, and valuables, through leaving a door unlocked or a window open.

mrcol1000

margaretclare wrote: »

I would have thought that the two-legged variety were more of a likely pest than any animal, and not only in London.

We were warned by crime prevention officers about leaving our bedroom window open a few years ago on a hot evening, when someone small and agile managed to climb through. Fortunately he or she only got away with a fiver, but if I'd had large sums in my handbag it would have gone just the same. Some people have lost large sums of money, and valuables, through leaving a door unlocked or a window open.

Ah they don't even have locks on front doors up here in the North.

fimonkey

When I lived in the North we didn't even have front doors!

martindow

fimonkey wrote: »

When I lived in the North we didn't even have front doors!

I did. I wanted to last the winter!

Lance

You can all relax. A fox suspect has been destroyed.

http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/content/hackney/gazette/news/story.aspx?brand=HKYGOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newshkyg&itemid=WeED07%20Jun%202010%2010%3A09%3A48%3A067

lincroft1710

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Interesting statistic relating to risk assessment. More people are bitten every year by New Yorkers than by sharks. But which are we more afraid of?

OK, maybe "interesting" was a bit of an exaggeration.

I'd be more afraid of New Yorkers, some of them are very strange.

lincroft1710

Will this be an excuse for the ToryDems to bring back fox hunting?