Caporegime
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The scream is bloodcurdling. It’s like a cats being skinned alive or something.
Bloody Foxes!
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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.
There are loads in my part of SE London, they're protected in the city too, I can do nothing about the den burrowing under my patio. In the city they are invariably vermin, I know from personal experience they eat cats too. At least their numbers can be controlled in the country, start shooting them in SE London and you can imagine the armed response that'd turn up in no time.
I used to have a flat between Bromley and Catford and around this time of year they'd be all over the place in the streets especially in the early hours of the morning and didn't give a **** about anyone passing by, etc.
When I was a lad I lived across the road from a farm.
We used to spend our days at some part of the year 'training' fox found pups, legging it across a cow barn, tea towel hanging out the back of our shorts like a tail, that made you move some.....nippy, in every sense, little ******** they are.
TBF though, while I was raised in the country and believe pest control is a necessity, actual hunting really isn't the best way to do it.
We used to spend our days at some part of the year 'training' fox found pups, legging it across a cow barn, tea towel hanging out the back of our shorts like a tail, that made you move some.....nippy, in every sense, little ******** they are.
TBF though, while I was raised in the country and believe pest control is a necessity, actual hunting really isn't the best way to do it.
I've lived on and off in rural Somerset, currently living surrounded by farms. Hardly ever see foxes - occasionally they run across the road in front of me when driving home in the dead of night. Saw 10x more foxes when I lived in the middle of London than I've ever seen in the countryside.
They're probably more compatible with humans as a city scavenger than a country predator TBF.
They probably do a public service in terms of cleaning up. I saw a documentary once that explained how ants contributed to waste control in big cities, it was quite staggering IIRC.
They probably do a public service in terms of cleaning up. I saw a documentary once that explained how ants contributed to waste control in big cities, it was quite staggering IIRC.
Yep. We never really got them where I am to maybe 5 years ago. I remember being awake late and wondering WTF was going on, assumed that something was being brutally murdered. Looked out the window to see two foxes walking down the street screaching.
Yea they do like dragging rubbish into ours too. We've had a dead chicken, like you'd get grin a supermarket and a dead headless chicken which they must have dragged from a farm somewhere.
Was down my uncles a few years back helping him build a shed, one came within 10m of us while we were having lunch, grabbed a glove and ****** off!
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We was very shocked to see a hunt going last Christmas in a field. Hounds and all. I didn't know if it was still legal or not but there were loads of them.
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Someone in need of a cuddle wuddle? x
It causes a bit of drama around my way couple of the farms do full on hunts semi-regularly and there is a ~2000 strong saboteur group dedicated to frustrating them (usually about 200 turn up on the day). The last one I'm not entirely sure what happened but someone's vehicle got rammed - looked like an innocent member of the public who happened to be wrong place, wrong time and then someone got run over (not badly) and it looked like it was about to kick off into a full on brawl before the police turned up in numbers (can't really see much but a picture I got below).
