Fox attacks....
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I live on the street on top of the hill. Between our street and street below there is 10 feet ground level difference held in place by retaining wall from 1935. The wall is between our gardens and gardens of the properties on the street below. It just so happens that the four houses directly below my property are rented out by housing association to council tenants. They don't give es and let their gardens turn into field of bindweed and nettles so dense and so high that even Che Guevara and his partisans could hide in there for months.
Two days ago while doing some refurb in the garden we had a bit of a ground collapse under one of the fencing posts and we discovered family of foxes moved to the yard below us last spring, dug up massive hole under the retaining wall and nested behind it. The wall partially collapsed where the hole was dug some time in winter so the foxes dug corridors 8-10 feet deeper under my garden. I have a potential land slide, ground collapse scenario if the tunnels collapse during spring rains and because it's under my garden council doesn't consider this their problem. When we asked old lady council tenant in property below why they didn't react to foxes running in their garden for months, she replied she through foxes were kind of cute. She also asked if I haven't seen two out of four kittens from the litter her cat had in autumn. I pointed to the obvious - foxes, kittens, nom nom. She was shocked. Seriously people, less Cartoon Network, more Animal Planet.
So now I'm facing 4-8 grand bill to secure and rebuild the damage because of family of foxes and people not treating them like the vermin they are.
Two days ago while doing some refurb in the garden we had a bit of a ground collapse under one of the fencing posts and we discovered family of foxes moved to the yard below us last spring, dug up massive hole under the retaining wall and nested behind it. The wall partially collapsed where the hole was dug some time in winter so the foxes dug corridors 8-10 feet deeper under my garden. I have a potential land slide, ground collapse scenario if the tunnels collapse during spring rains and because it's under my garden council doesn't consider this their problem. When we asked old lady council tenant in property below why they didn't react to foxes running in their garden for months, she replied she through foxes were kind of cute. She also asked if I haven't seen two out of four kittens from the litter her cat had in autumn. I pointed to the obvious - foxes, kittens, nom nom. She was shocked. Seriously people, less Cartoon Network, more Animal Planet.
So now I'm facing 4-8 grand bill to secure and rebuild the damage because of family of foxes and people not treating them like the vermin they are.
Soldato
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Foxes are filthy, scavenging vermin. Why on earth wouldn't people want them kept under control? They spread disease and aren't cute, cuddly rabbits
Generally the case, I disagree with the use of dogs though.
There are also people who are opposed to the killing of rabbits, most likely for cute and cuddly reasons. Y'all like free range chicken and crop products though.
Won't somebody think of the children!
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.../wythenshawe-hospital-fox-alert-after-1310744
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.../wythenshawe-hospital-fox-alert-after-1310744
