Not going to pay council to remove a dead fox so just put it on main road !

COOLTRIKERCHICK

stephenliverpool1 wrote: »

Hi,

Neighbour noticed a dead fox in my front garden the other day. Council wanted £70 to collect it. I can't afford that so I got my shovel and just put it on main road. Will phone them tomorrow to get them to collect it.

why didn't you notice the fox dead? especially if your neighbour who did lives 40 yards away

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd have shovelled it out there in the first instance - wouldn't have occurred to me that the Council might be interested/do something about it.

That would have been my way of dealing with it too.

Any contact with the Council (other than anonymously) puts you at risk of thinking "Ok..its nowt to do with them but we have a named person here telling us...so we will try and stick them with the bill" even though its out on the public highway. Worse case analysis being you get done for flytipping- which wouldn't be fair, as its not your rubbish iyswim...but some Councils are desperate for money and some Council workers are, shall we call it, a bit "meticulous" in the way they do their jobs/protect their own personal backsides (rather than exercising commonsense).

I'm wondering if another way of dealing with it would be to phone the local Hunt and whether they would come and remove it (minus bringing any of their dogs with them of course). I would also quite likely give them a ring and ask (carefully not mentioning that I'm actually anti-hunting.....).

justjohn

id have burnt it on a fire in the garden ...job done.


BTW the tails worth about a tenner on ebay lol

moneyistooshorttomention

Errrm...wouldn't that be rather a stench?

I'm glad this isn't my problem, as I literally wouldn't be able to touch it or even look at it - so don't actually know how the fox could be moved in the first place (bar a friend with a "strong stomach" or a workman coming around anyway for another job that wouldn't mind being lobbed an extra tenner to move it).

justjohn

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Errrm...wouldn't that be rather a stench?

I'm glad this isn't my problem, as I literally wouldn't be able to touch it or even look at it - so don't actually know how the fox could be moved in the first place (bar a friend with a "strong stomach" or a workman coming around anyway for another job that wouldn't mind being lobbed an extra tenner to move it).

lol you want a nice hot fire so you get a quick burn lol by the time you have a load of tree cuttings on the fire it won't smell that bad lol


Anyway by the time someone complains about the smell and someone actually comes to investigate the fire would be out lol

prosaver

wouldnt it be easier to bury it?
poor old basil..boom boom

COOLTRIKERCHICK

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I'm wondering if another way of dealing with it would be to phone the local Hunt and whether they would come and remove it (minus bringing any of their dogs with them of course). I would also quite likely give them a ring and ask (carefully not mentioning that I'm actually anti-hunting.....).[/QUOTE]


how 2 faced is that!!! so you don't like the hunt etc, but yet you would want them to sort out a problem of regarding a fox in your garden... they are had stopped all activities, and didn't adapt with the ban 10 years ago, you wouldn't even have been able to say that, or I as a smallholder would not be able to call on them with any fallen farm animals.. which we are not allowed to bury on our own land anymore..


for one thing hunts do not do things for free, yes they are registered to take fallen farm livestock away, but there is a fee for that..


get a grip... if you live in a rural/country less populated area compared to where you used to live, then you got to except these things, and the way of live... don't like it, or cant deal with it, then move back to the city...

PasturesNew

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

I'd go mental if one of my neighbours put a dead animal in the road.

It's easy enough to bag it up without touching it. Bung that bag in a box and take it to the tip.

It wouldn't even occur to me that that's how people might deal with a dead animal. I've never had to even think about what to do with one.

If you didn't have a car and the tip were 11 miles away, would you take it on the 3 buses it needs to get there?

You have to remember not everybody [a] knows stuff is in a position to do what is easy for some.

stephenliverpool1

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That would have been my way of dealing with it too.

Any contact with the Council (other than anonymously) puts you at risk of thinking "Ok..its nowt to do with them but we have a named person here telling us...so we will try and stick them with the bill" even though its out on the public highway.

I did it anonymously and BTW, the council have already picked it up.

justjohn

prosaver wrote: »

wouldnt it be easier to bury it?
poor old basil..boom boom

lol maybe, would need a nice deep hole lol ....sounds like hard work to me... would I have to make a little cross and plant some dafs on top lol


just cause I would get a few pound for the tail does not mean I would go overboard rofl