Urban Foxes

[Matheous-2]

Why the sudden outcry about these animals when there is obviously a greater danger already in our homes in the form of "devil dogs"?

[Zeuhl]

And 'devil people'

Poor old foxes should be way down the list of potential dangers

[wiltsman]

I agree completely with you Matheous. Listening to the radio this afternoon, I understand the house concerned in which the baby was bitten had a damaged door, damaged enough to allow a fox to get in! Surely it would not have taken much to have made a temporary repair.

Foxes are now in towns and cities because there is so much food debris left around for them to scavenge.

But to leave a hole in a door, large enough for a fox to crawl through, this freezing weather with a baby in the house, to me, seems negligent.

[Old_Geezer]

I like to see wildwife, and they are expected to come into urban areas if we can't control our expansion into their habitat: but I think one has to avoid ignoring an issue simply because there are others. Surely it's not an either/or situation.

[starone]

Haven't seen this news matheous but agree with the other posts. A hole big enough for a fox to crawl through? A cat flap would be big enough I reckon - they are not that big - some are quite small, although male foxes are bigger. Depends I suppose, and the poor thing may be starving and cold.

[B00]

Devil dogs?

No such thing, unless you mean devil people who think they're 'hard breeding fighting dogs to bolster their pathetic egos.

[Baldric]

I seem to be reading a different OP to most other people?

[Old_Geezer]

Ah, ok. Try here Baldric

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1215873.html

[dustypuss]

http://www.cartoonstock.com/newscartoons/cartoonists/cgo/lowres/cgon150l.jpg

[Baldric]

OK, tried that, it brings me back to this question

[Answerprancer]

"Why the sudden outcry" because this is hysterical England, people like to become hysterical over something now and then.

[maggiebee]

Hysterical "England" AP???

[thejudderman]

I think it was the family dog, they are just blaming a fox!

[237SJ]

"Townies". They get excited about such things. In the country, they`d just shoot them.

[hc4361]

The family doesn't have a dog. Don't you think the police and investigators would have checked that out already?

[Ann]

The door business was very peculiar, who would leave a door unsafe like that? A burglar or murderer could have easily got in too .............. something not quite right here.

[hc4361]

It happened during the day. Maybe the parents did barricade the door at night time but need access during the day.

[maggiebee]

In the "olden days" as my grandchildren call them, I lived in the countryside. My children slept outside in their prams all day when the weather was fine. Sad when we have to keep children indoors and doors locked all the time.

[Old_Geezer]

I'm sure they feel guilty at allowing access but the thing is someone will be doing so every moment. Someone somewhere will have left a door. One needs to discourage the unperturbed attitude of the fox and also plan better our society so we don't think we can just take everything from other species. Wariness of humans will suit us all.

[Matheous-2]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21409631
Sorry- I forgot to paste the news source....

[hc4361]

Matheous, you compare the fox to the 'devil dogs'.
I don't think that is a fair comparison. The mothers involved (at least two recorded fox attacks on youngsters) did not purposefully bring the foxes in to the family home.

People happily keep pet rats. It doesn't mean those same people are happy to have a wild rat in their kitchen.