I live in the inner city and have always supported fox hunting - as do very many townies. And not all countryfolk did.
Fox already inhabit towns, buildings don't stop them breeding in gardens so they've been here for centuries. As their traditional earths have been built on they have simply moved house, as it were. There's no reason for them to migrate from the country.
And a lot of townies who we know encourage fox, they think they're pretty and get them to feed from their hands. They're not going to change their minds.
Blame politicians, not people, for the hunting ban.
Please refrain from using the "al**wed" word in here - if B&Q sell it, I can use it... BTW lead is still - erm - used in solder for aviation, military and medical electronic equipment (where reliability is required) - only consumers must be saddled with the built-in tin whiskers obsolescence.
I didn't send him, he got the idea forom somewhere else. If he wanted to do it that was his problem, not mine. It takes a lot of widdle to cover the boundary even of a modest inner city back garden and when it didn't work he gave up.
If you say so Mary, but I'd have been more upset about it if they'd been my chickens. It does also mean I'll need to get more Tuits (in terms of chickenwire fencing etc) if I'm to keep some myself, which I'd like to do.
I take it you're a fox-hater then? Myself, I quite like them. I know they slaughter animals for their food, but then so do most humans I know. And at least foxes slaughter their own prey instead of having someone else do it for them.(though I'm sure this doesn't apply to any self-respecting DIYer :-))
Quite. You seemed to think that because your pets weren't killed the fox weren't a problem even though your friend's hens were killed. That's a selfish attitude, I think.
Chicken wire won't keep out fox. Nor badger. It will keep the chickens in, that's all.
I don't hate anything. I don't want fox in our garden and we've taken expensive steps to ensure that they can't get in.
Urban fox have killed about a dozen of our chickens over the years. Note, I didn't say *ate* them, just killed them. Urban fox aren't hungry, they're fed by people and scavenge things left by litter louts (mankind) and careless food disposal, also by Man.
Sometimes we found our beloved hens headless, sometimes just killed with a broken neck. The fox which killed them weren't hungry, they did it for sport, like a dog which also killed one of our precioius hens. All our hens were killed during the day so please don't say that we were careless about shutting them in at night. Fox came in our garden when we were in it. They saw us, they were bold.
Please read what I said above. And I prefer the more realistic 'kill' to the euphemistic 'slaughter'.
Sadly, we're bound by law in UK, we're not allowed to kill most of the meat we eat.
Umm... I wouldn't have thought the reward worth the effort. The holes here are only where you might expect to find nuts. There is plenty more lawn, untouched by Foxes but regularly searched by Starlings.
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