Bloody Foxes!
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Soldato
My heart bleeds for you.
Caporegime
The screaming season has started.
Don't know if anyone else has the same problem at night but over here in London they are now so tame that you can bang and shout at them and they just ignore you and carry on.
My sisters got a house in Catford and shes showed me pictures of the ones digging up everything in her garden... The cubs are as cute as hell but her garden looks like No mans land
Are they protected by law? They do seem to have totally taken over in recent years. My mums area has a big population too. They walk up and down her street in broad day light too!
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Caporegime
Cockerels/rooster here and cows.
Soldato
never seen a fox around here tbh i see deer out of the window sometimes ,when im sat out on an evening its amazing how noisy the snails are
Same here , some of them no longer seem to be nocturnal.
Not sure if they are protected but when ever the subject of culling comes up by City Councils the animal rights lot kick off and the subject gets dropped.
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I concur. Personally I would far rather hear some noise from foxes than the racket caused by speeding cars at night.
I suspect that if people didn't so casually discard rubbish everywhere foxes would move back to the country quickly enough.
Soldato
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No they are definitely not protected and are vermin, so can be humanely killed. A local farmer has shot over 12 since January just on his own modest area of land. One of my dogs got a fox last week, thankfully despatching it quickly and cleanly. There seem a lot about round here this year.
What you cannot legally do is actively hunt them with a pack of hounds.
What you cannot legally do is actively hunt them with a pack of hounds.
Soldato
You will have to move to the countryside - Then as a townie you can report it to the envionment dept for noise and it will be instantly banned. 
That's the sound of just one , we get large packs running around all making the same noise.
Soldato
yes ,those are a tad noisier than my snails 
Soldato
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I guess they are safe in cities as posh ***** on horses can't kill them
Even if they aren't protected, there won't be any legal way to deal with them in a town. It's not like you can blast them with a shotgun in the middle of a street.
You can pay someone to trap them and then take them away... what they do with them after that I didn't ask.
But only on your own land and it's unlikely they will venture in to a small urban garden.
Commissario
I dunno, I've heard worse covers.
Soldato
Get loads of them around here. They don't bother me in the slightest, I can sleep through anything short of a thermonuclear detonation.
Soldato
I would rather hear foxes that a bunch of drunken students!