You can't beat a good scratch!

Great pictures – don’t you just love it when you’ve got a camera handy? 🙂

( I know what ageorge probably wishes he had handy! 😮 )

Yes I wish I had a Fox handy , my Polecats need fed , a nice fat Vixen would feed them for a couple of days ! :dev2:

Great pictures – don’t you just love it when you’ve got a camera handy? 🙂

( I know what ageorge probably wishes he had handy! 😮 )

The following is supposedly a true story. To be included, besides being true, the story is most likely strange, weird, surprising, or funny.

Hunter Shot to Death By a Fox, Belgrade, Associated Press

A fox shot and killed a 38-year-old hunter in central Yugoslavia, the official Yugoslav news agency Tanjug reported yesterday.

Salih Hajdur, a farmer from the village of Gornje Hrasno in the Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina, went to a nearby forest Sunday to shoot a fox, Tanjug said.

Hajdur wounded a fox in the leg, the agency said, but to spare the skin he did not fire again. Instead, he hit the animal with his refle butt. The struggling animal triggered a shot that hit Hajdur in the chest and killed him instantly, Tanjug said. The fox died later, Tanjug added.

Al, I thought so…

What did you break in the past 3 months ?

TOOO much – I may expand on this at some point in time – not now though.

Al

Al, I thought so…

What did you break in the past 3 months ?

Lovely pick Geoff.
Living on the edges of town, our foxes occasionally knock over the bins and empty the contents over the garden.Nothing i know to what the country folk have to put up with but they are wild animals and all.Surly grown men can build a coop to keep out the crafty old fox.

[QUOTE=frankvw]Al,

Did anyone already tell you that you are a hazard?

Yes , all the time ! :dev2:

many thanks Goeff, love them pics,

Alastair, i know and have seen first hand what foxes are capable of with chickens ( and from what i am told, on rare occasions piglets) like all dogs they will persue a fleeing “prey” and in the confined area of a chicken coup there are plenty of fleeing bodies when there si a fox around!. but there are ways and means of keeping them out, nice little fences to give them a “shocking” experience for one. that will put most animals off a “kill frenzy” and sour their taste for chicken (for a little while anyway) please i don’t want to get into a fox hunting debate here, this is just my honest opinion and i belive there are more humane ways of dealing with problem foxes that blowing its guts out or letting it get torn apart by a pack of hounds. (re- best foot forward by Colin Hodgkinson, the autobiography of an RAF pilot who lost his legs and continued flying operationally with the RAF), he wrote about being with the mendip hunt and seeing a fox peeing with fright as it was thrown to the pack. sickening!!!

just my 2pw.

Greg

Nah Greg , I never gut shoot anything , if I can’t get a head shot then I wont shoot – gut shot animals can take hours to die.

I have spotted that many of the Hunts have sneeked round the legislation regarding the banning of using dogs to kill Foxes – the hunt only now use dogs to flush out the Fox , the Huntsmaster has a firearm to despatch the fox . Lets see them police that one !!!!!

many thanks Goeff, love them pics,

Alastair, i know and have seen first hand what foxes are capable of with chickens ( and from what i am told, on rare occasions piglets) like all dogs they will persue a fleeing “prey” and in the confined area of a chicken coup there are plenty of fleeing bodies when there si a fox around!. but there are ways and means of keeping them out, nice little fences to give them a “shocking” experience for one. that will put most animals off a “kill frenzy” and sour their taste for chicken (for a little while anyway) please i don’t want to get into a fox hunting debate here, this is just my honest opinion and i belive there are more humane ways of dealing with problem foxes that blowing its guts out or letting it get torn apart by a pack of hounds. (re- best foot forward by Colin Hodgkinson, the autobiography of an RAF pilot who lost his legs and continued flying operationally with the RAF), he wrote about being with the mendip hunt and seeing a fox peeing with fright as it was thrown to the pack. sickening!!!

just my 2pw.

Greg

Al,

Did anyone already tell you that you are a hazard?

Kids, don’t try this at home 😀

And… nice fox pictures!

For Gawd’s sake, don’t ask Al what he does to seagulls! Him and Snapper’d be round in a flash! :rolleyes:

Hell yeah . Fly rod , floating line with a 12lb breaking strain leader , down the beach and throw loads of bits of bread up in the air , mould a bit of bread round a size 14 hook on your leader , keep throwing bread up but gently start casting into the seagulls and WHAM , you’ve got a live Seagull kite for 30-45mins . Don’t let the fecker get too close , just walk away feeding line out . Eventually the barbless hook will fall out an Mr Seagull flies off. Or if you are really stupid , drag it into someones house and create chaos.
There are other things involving AlkaSeltzer and Baking Soda but they are messy

Al

Ageorge,

I live in Bexleyheath, on the London/Kent border. Re damage, see above. It is annoying when they chose to have a set-to in the middle of my Convolvulus, which hasn’t yet recovered, but that’s gardening for you.

Geoff.

Convulvus is a bloody weed !!!! , I have 12 acres of orchard and am fighting a losing battle to eradicate the stuff , nice heart shaped leaves , once its in your garden the only stuff to shift it is Gramoxon ( paraquat ) , if you try to dig it out you have to get every white root out or the bleeding stuff keps coming back.
Too many damn pests in your garden Geoff – start eliminating them !!!!!

For Gawd’s sake, don’t ask Al what he does to seagulls! Him and Snapper’d be round in a flash! :rolleyes:

Ageorge,

I live in Bexleyheath, on the London/Kent border. Re damage, see above. It is annoying when they chose to have a set-to in the middle of my Convolvulus, which hasn’t yet recovered, but that’s gardening for you.

Geoff.

WWHHHHHHYYYYYYY is everybody going awww , nice , ooh look at that .

410 Garden gun , booofff , boooff , yelp . Thats my Polecats fed this week anyway .

Where do you live Geoff ?? , do they bother you much ??

A few more for Landyman, ageorge please look away now.

Where I live there are loads of Foxes, and we get them coming through our garden all night. They do very little damage, though they leave the odd ‘land mine’. Quite often we get one sleeping all day on the roof of our garden shed. They did try digging an earth under the shed this year, but it was abandoned before they moved in. Hopefully the earth will have some occupants next spring. BTW the Fox in the photos has a pink tag in one ear. I wonder if he/she was an orphan released back into the wild?

Geoff.

SHOOOOOOOOT ITTTTTTTTTT !!! , bloody vermin , I detest them and after the ba$tards have been in our hen pens I take great joy in hunting them out .They will break into a pen , kill 400 Chickens but only take one . Kill all foxes now 😡

How cute, I have a deer that likes to come and sleep during the day in mine, the only thing is he eats all my plants!! 😉 Anna 😀

hey Anna, if you want to get your own back i can get you some good recipies for bambi stew :diablo: 😮 😉 😀

Greg

cool, any more pics?. foxes are amongst my fave creatures (and i have worked on farms and yes, i know the damage they can inflict on livestock)

Greg

Cool shot. Looks like hes enjoying himself

It always amazes me what simple things keep animals happy/amused!