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Urban fox in south London bites off babys finger , Boris Johnson wants something done about the problem of urban foxes , any sugestions on a post card please . Luckily the finger was reattached at the hospital ,Lets hope a full recovery is possible .

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/fox-bites-off- ... ml#mo9lzfx

Dave

Same story here in the Sunday Mail...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2KUHAbAZr


From linked article...

Experts believe there are 10,000 foxes living close to humans in London

Time to get on and tackle the problem... Shoot,Gas, Poisen them GET RID OF THEM

Make it a criminal offence to feed them in your garden... And yes do the same to the tree Rat.. Grey Squirrel


Jenks

Steady on oomans, consider the other side of the story. This could have been a bit of the chav control that many of you so readily espouse...

When I had a farm, chickens, turkeys, pigs and sheep an animal organization would capture foxes in the towns and dump them live
in the country. This practice caused a lot of problems with livestock and I wonder now if it still happens. These cute looking animals
are for their size a danger particulaly when cornered.

Jenks wrote:Time to get on and tackle the problem... Shoot,Gas, Poisen them GET RID OF THEM

Make it a criminal offence to feed them in your garden...

I agree that it should be an offence to feed foxes; but there are other more humane ways of dealing with foxes than gassing or poisoning - firstly, as you say, don't feed them - secondly people need to secure their waste as well to discourage scavenging - and although it's harsh, maybe foxes in problem areas that are picked up injured, sick or diseased should be put down rather than treated and released....

Also, just to put some perspective on this - there have been 2 confirmed instances where children/babies have been attacked in the last 3 years...in the same time frame, how many children/babies have been attacked by dogs in the UK...hundreds? ....thousands?....

How many children have been attacked by oomans?

meles meles wrote:How many children have been attacked by oomans?

Shoot them as well.

Yeah instead of feeding em. They can't be treated and certainly never released. Save everyone a lot of money.

I want to find who is dumping them near me ... http://www.full-bore.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=11293 a couple more sighting over the past few days but never an opportunity for a clear and legal shot - 42g of BB from 10metres should be enough.