Cease Fox Hunt (1 Viewer)

[StevieEvans]

LSB
"I am firmly against hunting in any shape or form"

What do you think you're doing with your bins & scope every weekend ?

......Yes, hunting birds..........only you dont kill em.

Probably best if you put all your hunting optics up on e-bay...

Steve.

 

[Chigrl]

Stevie there has a point!

 

[saluki]

Saluki,
some people just twist the words to suit their own arguement, i will quote from the dictionary, u said
OFTEN : frequently, many times
the facts are
OCCASIONALLY : casual, happening now and then, incidental.
i tend to get the facts right not exagerate them.
S.G.

Good for you SG! When I want to know something about foxes I now know exactly who to come to! Thanks for putting me straight on those points. Thirty years of watching foxes, what was I thinking of! I only needed to ask you . . .

Thank you

saluki

 

[snowyowl]

And to me, that would truly be a shame. I'm staying out of the debate about fox hunting because I know next to nothing about it.

Here in Canada (in my part of it anyway), as far as I know, most people love foxes. I adore them... they are one of my very favorite creatures on this earth. But I do know some people who prefer to shoot them on sight thinking every fox in the world is rabid and will attack or kill their dog, etc.

We've never seen any sign of this fox behaviour whatsoever in all the years we've watched foxes. The one disease we have seen is mange which is a truly awful. I've watched 2 foxes die of this illness (it's highly contagious), one very slowly over a period of months.... truly heartbreaking.

I have a fox here that comes around every night and I feed him for two reasons. #1... I'm really hoping that any marking he does will keep the neighbourhood cats away from my feeders. And #2... I just love them and enjoy watching and having them around.

I know this has absolutely nothing to do the with hunting ban and ongoing debate about it. I just wanted to point out how amazing it is, the differences in feelings about the same animal in different parts of the world.

Carry on!

Tammie, my next door neighbour frequently nags me because I don't shoot foxes. They cross my land to get to her chickens and turkeys. My attitude is that she should secure them better at night (it's rarely a day time problem). I love to see foxes and coyottes (now that i don't have sheep on the farm) but don't agree with feeding them.

 

[snowyowl]

Canada still has more than its share of wild places for foxes to hide from persecution,the countryside in the UK however is almost entirely manmade and these wonderfull creatures have been allowed to roam only because 'fun' can (or could) be had from chasing the poor things,now they are no use to those farmers and landowners that think of them as total vermin(not all but a significant proportion of those i talk to in my line of work) there is nowhere to hide(except perhaps the few counties that never had a hunting tradition and urban areas)Foxes will be a rare sight in the UK soon thanks to over sentimental and muddled thinking.

Colin.

Like Tammie, I don't want to get into the Fox Hunt debate but I do want to point out that Canada isa very varied country. My Province is an island, 224 km long and varying from 4 - 64 km wide. 381000 acres of the 640000 acres are under intense cultivation. Very little old forest exists, almost everything is second or third growth. My point in saying this, is that foxes thrive here. This was once a centre of fox farming and when the bottom dropped out of the market in the 1930's, farmers simply opened the cage doors and let the foxes go. The result is that there are a lot of foxes here (of every possible colour variation, it seems). Shooting them, trapping them etc doesn't seem to have had any significant effect although the recent coyotte invasion seems to have impacted on the population.
Foxes are survuvors and I suspect that they will continue to exist.

 

[Rob Chace]

but i have a soft spot for foxes, and get a great deal of enjoyment watching them playing, i think they have a hard life, shame.[/QUOTE]


Thats nature!

 

[s.g.]

Well its been great fun the past few weeks but i think i will draw a line under it now as its getting just a tiny bit tedious, there are definitely better things i could be doing with my time but thanks for your contributions.....now where did i put my saw/hammer and nails

S. G.

 

[derekjake]

Well its been great fun the past few weeks but i think i will draw a line under it now as its getting just a tiny bit tedious, there are definitely better things i could be doing with my time but thanks for your contributions.....now where did i put my saw/hammer and nails

S. G.

and dont forget your a -to-z book every thing you need to know about foxes for beginers

 

[Edward woodwood]

Don't forget your A to Z book of English grammar and spelling Derek.

Cheap shots are the easiest.

Tim

 

[Gill Osborne]

C'mon guys...let's just agree to disagree on the subject LOL

Lot more important things to discuss.....like all this darned snow!!!! And if wether I go out in my Micra tomorrow will I get back UP the hill to the cottage!!!! LOL

GILL

 

[derekjake]

Don't forget your A to Z book of English grammar and spelling Derek.

Cheap shots are the easiest.

Tim

wlll sid tim i nefer cud spil did u men the onee pounde shopeys in the hee streeeet,

 

[StevieEvans]

The last few days snow have been great in allowing us to see whats been about at night, masses of Fox prints & Roe slots all over the place.

I dont think theres one person thats contributed to this thread that doesnt admire the cunning Red Fox.

SE.

 

[David Bryant]

Snow????? Why haven't we had any in Norfolk?! They don't close schools on the grounds of prettiness, sadly!
I think Foxes are cool! And Badgers And Red Squirrels! But Rats? I'm with Winston Smith! Wipe 'em out! Let's have rat hunting packs of VC people riding on poodles!

 

[Chigrl]

still sunny here!

 

[Gill Osborne]

You might get your snow tomorrow David....according to the weather guy at 7pm heavy snow is forecast all along the east coast tomorrow...from Scotland down to Norfolk/Kent!
Really chucking it down up here in Northumberland....at least five inches deep and verrrry cold *darling hubby just scrubbed me in it!!!* LOL Haven't had a good snowball fight since I was a kid!!! And apparently our neighbour has got some feed sacks ready, which we stuff with straw, so we can go sledging down the big hill behind us! I have NEVER sledged down a hill!!!! Had a deprived childhood!!! LOL

GILL

GILL

 

[Richard W]

I dont think theres one person thats contributed to this thread that doesnt admire the cunning Red Fox.

true, I like watching them, and never tell mr Keeper when I've seen them or any of the other potential nasties he might want to be rid of (except Mink, they ate all my Frogs :C), though he does tell me about any interesting birds...

last saw a fox at the weekend, at Little Paxton, was curled up on a bank in a freezing wind very close to the waters edge, with 20+ Greylag Geese keeping a very close eye on it.

 

[Gill Osborne]

Yeah Richard...I love to watch foxes and would never tell anybody like a gamekeeper or my farmer landlord that I'd actually seen one, or where! Don't actually like seeing things killed unless it's for food and it's done quickly and humanely.
Banning hunting is NOT going to save a single fox...they're just gonna be shot with less chance of escape than they would have with a pack of dopey hounds in pursuit!

GILL

 

[marcus]

Yeah Richard...I love to watch foxes and would never tell anybody like a gamekeeper or my farmer landlord that I'd actually seen one, or where! Don't actually like seeing things killed unless it's for food and it's done quickly and humanely.
Banning hunting is NOT going to save a single fox...they're just gonna be shot with less chance of escape than they would have with a pack of dopey hounds in pursuit!

GILL

It seems what you have posted, Gill, has made everyone stop and consider the truth of the ban.
Or it's possible that they just got tired of this thread.

 

[mothman]

Today I was told that our first local hunt since the ban, managed to shoot five under the new laws,I am reliably informed by someone that attends regularly that the best they ever did by hounds(pre ban) was two.... That speaks volumes dosent it.

Colin.

 

[Touty]

Today I was told that our first local hunt since the ban, managed to shoot five under the new laws,I am reliably informed by someone that attends regularly that the best they ever did by hounds(pre ban) was two.... That speaks volumes dosent it.

Colin.

I'm sure we'll be seeing fewer foxes in the future now that they have no social value to huntsmen. Look on the bright side - more partridges, hares etc.