A Fox's got my babies...

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Jacobea said:
Foxes can leap pretty high. There is a six foot fence at the bottom of my garden and, admittedly when persued by my dog, the trespassing fox can jump up and scrabble over it easily. Also then can scrabble/jump onto the shed roof, which is about eight/nine foot high. I'd say they're comparable to a German Shepherd for agility, if not better.
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Not only can foxes "leap pretty high" they're extremely agile as well. Like in this classic scene taken from the BBC documentary Life, of a fox in hot pursuit of a baby ibex: BBC - Earth News - Baby ibex's epic struggle to live
 
FriendOfTheZoo said:
A possible scenario is that the pet dog has done it, they don't want their pet destroyed, so made up the fox story.
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I think that's crossed a lot of peoples' minds. Of course alternatively it might be true but it does seem a remarkable incident.
 
New details continue to emerge. Allegedly, it appears that the neighbours used to regularly encourage local foxes into their house with food. Allegedly the neighbours had been away for a few days. If this is true then things start to make a little more sense. Urban foxes are often pretty bold and if they've been actively encouraged into surrounding homes then.....
 
I don't wish to make light of the obvious seriousness of this incident.....whatever the actual cause...

But the news story I saw on the subject featured a police photo of THE fox accused of committing the attack, which I thought rather bizarre to say the least....

What are they expecting us to do with this?

'Look out for a fox fitting this description (ie red, big teeth, bushy tail)because it is dangerous??? Perhaps they will be issuing a photo-fit to assist with this??

:confused:
 
Theloderma said:
New details continue to emerge. Allegedly, it appears that the neighbours used to regularly encourage local foxes into their house with food. Allegedly the neighbours had been away for a few days. If this is true then things start to make a little more sense.
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That certainly puts a very different slant on things. If its correct then the neighbours may be feeling pretty bad about their actions now.
 
I actually laughed out loud at all these experts that suddenly come out of the wood work, some of the ***** they were talking was unreal! anything to get on tv.

Incidentally my son just asked me "does a boy fox lift its leg like a boy dog?" I didnt know the answer to that! anybody ever seen a "Boy fox" urinating?
 
Theloderma said:
New details continue to emerge. Allegedly, it appears that the neighbours used to regularly encourage local foxes into their house with food. Allegedly the neighbours had been away for a few days. If this is true then things start to make a little more sense. Urban foxes are often pretty bold and if they've been actively encouraged into surrounding homes then.....
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Smart. :rolleyes:
 
I'm not a fox expert, but I used to work at a wildlife rehab centre and anything brought in over 8 weeks or so would be scared stiff of people, regardless of how often I brought it food or how long it was there. Only the very young or hand reared would happily come up to me.
I've also seen a fox attack a rabbit on tv, they go straight for the neck to kill then bite and tear at the corpse. They definitely do not play with their food like a cat does. This little girl looks like a cat or dog victim to me.
I will say, that I heard once of a pack of beagles chasing a fox who ran across a lady with a pet dog and tore the dog apart on the end of its lead cause they were so riled up.
Could a dog be chasing the fox (hence the fox being in a weird place) and the dog in full hunting mode ended up biting the girls then bolted when the lady came to the room?
 
Just a quick thought on this one if the next door nieghbour was encouraging them into the house as the fox been back since because I've heard nothing on the media and if it has are they still feeding it?
Or should they report it to the RSPCA so that it could be captured and taken to a rescue centre or zoo so this sort of thing doesn't happen again, because as an old gentleman close to me use to say once an animal as the taste of human blood then they will attack again.
 
adrian1963 said:
Just a quick thought on this one if the next door nieghbour was encouraging them into the house as the fox been back since because I've heard nothing on the media and if it has are they still feeding it?
Or should they report it to the RSPCA so that it could be captured and taken to a rescue centre or zoo so this sort of thing doesn't happen again, because as an old gentleman close to me use to say once an animal as the taste of human blood then they will attack again.
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Several foxes were trapped and put down locally after this incident.

The twin's family have had to have police protection because the AR lunatics have been harrassing them over the deaths of the foxes.

Weird world we live in!
 
Steve Robinson said:
Several foxes were trapped and put down locally after this incident.

The twin's family have had to have police protection because the AR lunatics have been harrassing them over the deaths of the foxes.

Weird world we live in!
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Weird that people are annoyed that our native wildlife is being killed indiscriminately? Even if, and it's a big if, the kids really were attacked by a fox, what the hell did the other three do??
The fox killing is stupid vengeful behaviour and people have every right to be very angry.
 
But angry people don't have a right to harass innocent children! And I wonder if there were any DNA samples taken that might show evidence of a fox, or the lack of it.
 
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