FOX ATTACK!

[Arriba]

i think foxes are ace creatures.

[4D]

Define wildlife. Birds, deer, badgers, rabbits and squirrels (for example) generally get on with their lives and avoid people.

Rats and foxes take much more of a detrimental interest.

I think you'll find rats have always enjoyed living alongside humans, we leave things around that they can benefit from. They are always around but not often seen.

[Fred Elliot]

I hate mice


in my bath



having a kip

[Don Rogers Shop]

Define wildlife. Birds, deer, badgers, rabbits and squirrels (for example) generally get on with their lives and avoid people.

Rats and foxes take much more of a detrimental interest.

Hmmmm disagree but never mind/ I don't think foxes generally make a habit of breaking into houses.

[Fred Elliot]

I don't think foxes generally make a habit of breaking into houses.

ever seen a fox in a stripey jumper and a mask ?



nah............... nor me

[Arriba]

they eat humans,and hang around after.smug bastards

[Fred Elliot]

they eat humans,and hang around after.smug bastards

yeah


just like Staffies







(not)

[Simon Pieman]

Well in Oz they never believed the dingoes killing a kid. Turns out it was true.

[Fred Elliot]

Well in Oz they never believed that Crocodile Dundee could throw a can 1000ft down a New York street and hit a mugger square on his bonce



Turns out it was true

[Talk Talk]

I think you'll find rats have always enjoyed living alongside humans, we leave things around that they can benefit from. They are always around but not often seen.

They certainly do enjoy human company. Unfortunately they carry all manner of horrible diseases, like Weil's disease and bubonic plague. Therefore they are a threat and hence that is why they are exterminated wherever possible.

The argument about which living things happily co-exist with humans and those that are detrimental has to be universal if it is to be moral. You can't make exceptions because you feel that one sort of animal is 'ace' (to quote Arriba). To disagree means that you think that Colorado beetles should be left alone, or that the foot and mouth virus should be encouraged or that the malarial mosquito is fine by you. It has to be applicable to them all.

Sure, the degree of damage that these things can cause humans is obviously different, but they either do or they don't.

Coming back to the fox, it seems that a lot of people think they are acceptable, mainly because of the hunting issue. The reason they were hunted in the first place (and are still blown away whenever possible) is because they are a pest. The hunting ban may have been phrased as a general disgust at the inhumane way that foxes were (sometimes) ripped to bits by dogs but I think a lot of it was more to do with certain factions using it as a cover for having a pop at a well heeled section of society.

[Don Rogers Shop]

They are a pest because we continue to build everywhere and move them closer and closer to humans.

[Arriba]

fox hunting is about the pleasure sick humans get from it.
fuck all to do with pest control

[Talk Talk]

They are a pest because we continue to build everywhere and move them closer and closer to humans.

I was talking about being a rural pest. They have been the bane of the farmer for centuries. You didn't tend to see the Wiltshire Hunt in Regent Circus, did you?

[Fred Elliot]

Rats love everyone

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See !

[Talk Talk]

fox hunting is about the pleasure sick humans get from it.
fuck all to do with pest control

As I said...rural pest control.

I know a bloke in Purton who makes a living killing foxes. If there was no demand then he wouldn't have a job, would he?