Has anyone else noticed how just as the Tories get in - with their plan to legalise hunting again
A fox attacks children in the city?
It's odd, because townies tend to be more anti-hunt than country folk, but I bet that will change now that townies realise foxes might attack their kids.
Why! Bozza's already calling for a cull of urban foxes!
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:41,
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It's odd, because townies tend to be more anti-hunt than country folk, but I bet that will change now that townies realise foxes might attack their kids.
Why! Bozza's already calling for a cull of urban foxes!
it's a good job there isn't any knee jerk reaction happening over this incident.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:49,
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I read yesterday
there's been three instances like this over the past 10 years.
Yet 1000s of people are attacked by dogs every year.
IO think there's more to this story that we will never hear about...
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:51,
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Yet 1000s of people are attacked by dogs every year.
IO think there's more to this story that we will never hear about...
like the bite marks in the children are in a different pattern to bite radius of a fox?
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:54,
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No, nothing like that
I just think a fox wandwering into a house, up the stairs, into a room and attacking two babies, without being seen...
And the parents were watching Britains Got Talent... that seems a little far fetched given their social status
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:00,
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And the parents were watching Britains Got Talent... that seems a little far fetched given their social status
yeah poshos never watch tv like the common working man
but if you interview them they all want to show how in touch they are by namechecking the xyz factor, the arctic baboons and vincent reeves and robert, sir mortimer and yes, minister.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:05,
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Did you see the story in The Sun today?
Hilarious - a big banner saying something like 'All across the UK foxes stalk us in our cities'.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:50,
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I'm more worried about the bloody squirrels in my garden
The foxes only come out at night, when I'm tucked up in bed.
The squirrels are there all bloody day. there's six of the fuckers in our tree now,.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:52,
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The squirrels are there all bloody day. there's six of the fuckers in our tree now,.
shoot them
they are vermin.
unless they are red squirrels, in which case you're ver lucky.
but if they are greys then shoot them.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 8:57,
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unless they are red squirrels, in which case you're ver lucky.
but if they are greys then shoot them.
No no no no no no no
the ex-Mrs. V shot a squirrel in our back yard with an air rifle once and it was horrible, it took hours to die, even after I tried to send it on its way. Just staring, and silently screaming, lying on its back doing 360s while its tail frantically pinwheeled.
The squirrels won that war, as not another shot was fired.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:00,
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The squirrels won that war, as not another shot was fired.
Mrs S dad shoots squirrels
but he uses a real gun
I don't want to hurt them, I just want them to stop digging up our bulbs, clambering over my BBQ, and staring at Mrs S with their cold dead eyes like they are about to pounce on her
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:02,
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I don't want to hurt them, I just want them to stop digging up our bulbs, clambering over my BBQ, and staring at Mrs S with their cold dead eyes like they are about to pounce on her
Yeah that's what drove us to it
Their destruction of my mary j plant was the catalyst. I'd read on the internet that the one thing guaranteed to keep squirrels out of your garden is, well, bits of dead squirrel and quantities of squirrel blood - they tend to avoid the area because they think there's a predator there.
Did it work? Did it fuck.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:05,
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Did it work? Did it fuck.
she's a farm girl, this was right in the head
there was blood jetting out from between its eyes
then I tried to finish it off by smashing its head with a log
its head got much flatter but no more dead
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:11,
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then I tried to finish it off by smashing its head with a log
its head got much flatter but no more dead
crikey
have you thought about humane capture traps, then release them miles away from where you live?
a friends mum used to capture them in the humane capture traps, drop it in a water butt and put the lid on til the noises had finished.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:15,
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a friends mum used to capture them in the humane capture traps, drop it in a water butt and put the lid on til the noises had finished.
drowning
is apparently the preferred method of despatch by the forestry commission. It's supposed to be a quick/clean/cheap way of doing it.
Technically though, being vermin, you could flay them alive with sharp sticks because the normal animal cruelty laws don't apply. *
* Do NOT take this as legal advice.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:22,
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Technically though, being vermin, you could flay them alive with sharp sticks because the normal animal cruelty laws don't apply. *
* Do NOT take this as legal advice.
Agreed
Or at the very least, have the courage to despatch the hairy fucker with a spade if you only wing it.
I've picked a couple off the roof of my house with a .177 after they started shitting in our loft and ate through the insulation on the water tank, jamming the filler valve and flooding the house while we were on holiday.
Shooting really is too good for 'em.
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:13,
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I've picked a couple off the roof of my house with a .177 after they started shitting in our loft and ate through the insulation on the water tank, jamming the filler valve and flooding the house while we were on holiday.
Shooting really is too good for 'em.
see above - this thing was pretty indestructible
I made every effort to despatch it, it just wouldn't die
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Wed 9 Jun 2010, 9:16,
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mutant
sounds like you saved humanity from a chromosome challenged mutation. They normally just die the minute you hit them...
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