Killing a fox?

ViperZS said:
the advantages of living in the countryside.

If i saw a fox in our garden, I would shoot it. Definitely. Unfortunately it isnt as easy for someone in a city/town :(

Just noticed you are in York as well...

where in York?
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Well technically in the vale of York near Selby, in a little village called Wistow, behind our garden is another house, behind that is a village hall and then just open fields.

The fox went up to the rabbit cage and tried to get in and managed to and the rabbit ran out and the fox obviously must have chased it and succeeded, bits of rabbit hair all over the garden, it was October time, poor thing I still miss him and the garden seems weird without little Jasper running round :(

He had free roam of the garden every day, but he was easy to get in, all we did was get a long pole, sort of wave it near him, and he just moved, it was like moving to the next level, eventually I just ran into the cage himself :D

My mum is an idiot, she won't listen, all she says is, I WANT THAT FOX DEAD!, I found a page talking about foxes and it seems the best way is obviously better fencing, or using some sort of poison to deter the fox, that is not harmful to foxes but does maybe give em a bas stomach or something I guess.
 
We have 30 chickens, and live in the countryside.

A fox visited the chicken pen during the day when we had bad snow. I was outside at the time. I did have my over and under with me, but decided not to shoot it. However, if it did kill one, it would come back for the rest, then I would kill it.

If your neighbour leaves food out, this will encourage the fox to come back every night - easy food - If you do decide to get another rabbit, get an enclosed pen, or make sure you get it in well before dusk.

But, to answer your question, should you kill it ? No.
 
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We have 30 chickens, and live in the countryside.

A fox visited the chicken pen during the day when we had bad snow. I was outside at the time. I did have my over and under with me, but decided not to shoot it. However, if it did kill one, it would come back for the rest, then I would kill it.

If your neighbour leaves food out, this will encourage the fox to come back every night - easy food - If you do decide to get another rabbit, get an enclosed pen, or make sure you get it in well before dusk.

But, to answer your question, should you kill it ? No.
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Enclosed pen? Does that mean inside the house? Is it actually possible to fox proof them? My parents don't think it is.
 
Gackt said:
Even if it is legal, it is not moral to simply kill a living creature because it is in your garden. Yes, it killed your rabbit, but it was simply being a predatory animal.
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Then I suggest the OP lets a nice big lurcher accidentally the whole fox, being as it's just a predatory animal itself and all. :D

I would call the RSPCA and see if they can relocate it outside the local game farm or somewhere equally stupid, as they are prone to doing; where it can maul all the birds, or where the keeper can sit waiting laughing to himself as he looks down the scope of a .22 while the arsepca open the cage traps and release his targets.
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Fixed. ;)
 
Lol you can see who are the city dwellers in this thread.

We have chickens and have twice lost them to foxes. My mum reared them from chicks (for free range eggs and not battery hens as everyone thinks when they hear the word "Raising chickens") and was devestated that they just chewed their way through the netting, ate the bodies and just left the heads. For anyone saying "Awww poor fox" you obviously don't keep livestock and experience what having foxes does to people who live in the countryside and rear animals. A local farmer was saying how the cows had calves born without heads as the foxes were circling the cows whilst they were giving birth like packs of hyenas and eating the heads as they were born. Foxes are NOT nice animals like in the cartoons.

We have had foxes around for years but never did anything to them as they never bothered us, but as soon as they killed all the chickens war was declared. Knowing that foxes will generally return to the same place they had a kill the night before, I sat up at night with a lamp and a fox lure sounds (on my iphone placed in the middle of the field!) and it brought in no less than 5 foxes within 30 mins to the chicken enclosure! They are crafy buggers and stayed "just" out of range so I didn't shoot them as I only want to get clean kills so after 5 hours of sitting in a field I went to bed. The next day in broad daylight I got two of them by stalking them along the hedge line at the end of the field.

As for the OP though, if you have houses around you DO NOT use a gun! You aren't allowed to use a shotgun, etc close to roads or other houses (for obvious reasons). Your mum also won't get close to one with a knife so you can just tell her to stop being Rambo. They are very crafty, shy animals a lot of the time so won't go near lights or humans if they smell them plus using a kitchen knife to kill something if you actually catch it isn't the most humane option!

The hunt still "take their dogs for a walk" quite often around here but they are largely ineffective. I can't say I particularly agree with hunting using dogs, but alas if you take a large group of dogs for a walk in the countryside you can't stop them from killing a fox now can you Mr Officer? ;)
 
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Catch it.
Sedate it.
Put a bomb inside it on a timer.
Take bets from friends and neighbours on whose garden will get redecorated with fox.
Profit!
 
Please don't kill the fox.

I'm sorry about your rabbit, but maybe you could use a better mesh or something in future?

Foxes are lovely animals and certainly quite timid around here when i've cornered one (although i'm big), it was only doing what comes naturally to it.
 
*Waits for Acidhell to arrive*

He'd brutally murder it, drink its blood and cook it later for dinner.

Anyway, phone the RSPCA for them to relocate it.
 
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