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Topic: Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack
Posted by: Fred Bray
Date/Time: 11/06/10 12:57:00

Fortunately OUR foxes aren't a 'problem', but you have to appreciate, Robin, the Koupparis family now have a different point of view. 

Regardless of how rare this incident is, many parents with children that young will now be paranoid about leaving them running around in the garden, especially if foxes visit at night. That's life.

And from my own observation of fox activities, they don't sleep throughout the entire day.

Then again, from my own observation of fox activities, they didn't get Toby Youngs cat!

I read that the Koupparis family had been having a BBQ that day, so my guess is that a regular fox may have traced a scent of food, from the the patio, to the babies bedroom, perhaps from shoes. The attack was, biting at the babies through the bars of the cot. Quiet night, parents watching TV, patio doors left open, inquisitive fox.

About OUR well behaved regulars, often lazing around in the garden during the day, three, occasionally four, the most I've seen in the garden at once is five. Mum, dad and three cubs.

People next door are not particularly tidy, over flowing bins the day before collection, occasionally food waste visible, I've never, ever seen a fox in the little alley where they put their rubbish out during the week.  The foxes live mainly in their garden.

Never seen black bags ripped open. They rarely approach the house, nothing to eat that they like.

Within the last couple of weeks, I saw a fox actually catch a pigeon and carry it off, (didn't share it with siblings). I saw another dig up and munch what looked like the carcass of a dead mouse or pigeon.  I remember thinking, 'I certainly wouldn't want to be bitten by him',

So these foxes can't have acquired a taste for easy pickings from a bin bag.   (After KFC, who'd want to catch and eat a raw pigeon, . . . . hmmm, second thoughts. . . .)

The foxes prowl around at night, the way cats do.  Sometimes sit together in the middle of the road. Local cats don't run away when they see a fox, but the cats keep an eye on them. The foxes ignore them. Even cats smaller than themselves.

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TopicDate PostedPosted By
Fox attack07/06/10 11:46:00 Marie Siddique
   Re:Fox attack07/06/10 12:10:00 Dee Cook
      Re:Re:Fox attack07/06/10 15:45:00 Iain Muir
         Re:Re:Re:Fox attack07/06/10 16:08:00 Dee Cook
            Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack07/06/10 16:48:00 Fred Bray
               Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack07/06/10 20:38:00 Robin Taylor
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack08/06/10 10:32:00 Dee Cook
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack08/06/10 12:56:00 Marie Siddique
                     Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack08/06/10 14:35:00 Robin Taylor
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack08/06/10 17:06:00 Dee Cook
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack09/06/10 18:45:00 Ian M Green
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Fox attack09/06/10 18:52:00 Paul Grady
   Re:Fox attack09/06/10 21:04:00 Alice Jones
      Re:Re:Fox attack10/06/10 12:20:00 Dee Cook
         Re:Re:Re:Fox attack10/06/10 13:25:00 Alice Jones
         Re:Re:Re:Fox attack10/06/10 13:27:00 Alice Jones
            Re::Fox attack10/06/10 15:39:00 Fran Leslie
               Re:Re::Fox attack10/06/10 18:20:00 Robin Taylor
                  Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 00:50:00 Mavis Walker
                     Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 03:18:00 Robin Taylor
                        Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 10:36:00 Dee Cook
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 11:41:00 Robin Taylor
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 12:12:00 Dee Cook
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 12:57:00 Fred Bray
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 14:15:00 Julia Hunt
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 15:44:00 Ian M Green
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack12/06/10 13:07:00 Dee Cook
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack11/06/10 17:00:00 Mavis Walker
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack12/06/10 19:21:00 Julia Hunt
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack12/06/10 19:59:00 Fred Bray
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack13/06/10 10:05:00 Dee Cook
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack13/06/10 12:47:00 Julia Hunt
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack13/06/10 15:12:00 Robin Taylor
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack14/06/10 10:37:00 Dee Cook
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack14/06/10 10:46:00 Fred Bray
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack14/06/10 11:16:00 Robin Taylor
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack14/06/10 15:07:00 Bob Crossley
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack14/06/10 15:10:00 Bob Crossley
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Fox attack14/06/10 16:57:00 Lucy Walker

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