Chickens, Fox and Dogs

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My chickens were a bit noisy yesterday and I kept looking out but not seeing anything (them running round with a fox chasing them for instance). When I went out to put them away the pen gate was open and they were wandering around the garden with my Dobes and there was a dead fox in their run - that is one fox that won't be killing any more of my poultry!
 
Good! So perish all foxes!

I hate foxes! Maybe I shouldn't but I do! Especially the big urban dog fox that killed our Tonkinese cat.
 
Good call :thumbs:
I got cats, so no fox`s to annoy my ladies :D
 
I find if difficult to feel any sympathy for a fox stoopid enough to get inside a property with a couple of Dobies in residence, that really is Darwinism at it's best. Local foxes will come in our garden, but only at night when the Jacks are safely locked away, they no longer brazen it out during the day. As Yves Geza says, we lost our last cat to a big dog fox a couple of years ago - the next cat we ever have will be as big as a fox if I have anything to do with it ;)
 
I like foxes. They are natural, unlike chickens in a pen or cats in a house!
 
Suvv said:
I like foxes. They are natural, unlike chickens in a pen or cats in a house!
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I like foxes as well, they are such cute,adorable, fluffy and gentle creatures........:)
 
I had a run-in with a Dobermann owner on a mate's farm a few years ago... He used to think it was his god given right to allow the damned animal a free run over his fields. Ironically, I was out one evening with the rifle after a nuisance fox when I got a call from the farmer to say that the Dobermann was in the big field again and could I do something about it 'cos it was worrying the sheep (not to mention the farmer).

I found it really heartening to see how cooperative a dog owner can be when faced with the prospect of having his beloved pooch turned inside out by a treble-two round! :D

Needless to say, the Dobermann was never let loose in that field again and I nailed charlie a few hours later... That was the last time I ever shot a fox. I've mellowed a bit since then and haven't picked up a rifle in nearly three years. Would I have shot the dog? Yeah, if it had attacked the sheep. I'm a proper dog-lover so it wouldn't have come easy and I'd have much rather slotted its owner instead!

At the end of the day, the fox is doing what comes naturally... It's a native British predator and it's got more right to roam than a bunch of smelly chickens! ;)
 
Funny you say that.Dogs chasing deer in a field with sheep in it, can be considered to be chasing sheep as well...........;)
 
Kerioak said:
- that is one fox that won't be killing any more of my poultry!
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Awww poor fox :D

fracster said:
I like foxes as well, ........:)
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Yep, me too:thumbs: but I doubt that I could eat a whole one though :D

Spiritflier said:
I found it really heartening to see how cooperative a dog owner can be when faced with the prospect of having his beloved pooch turned inside out by a treble-two round! :D
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I had similar a few years ago a woman walking 6, yes half a dozen, Irish wolf hounds,
off leads through a field of sheep.
She though I was joking, when I asked her to put them on leads,
That is until I pointed a 223 at the closest one and slid the bolt back and forth.
 
Col said:
Strange ideas:thinking:
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Not at all! its perfectly legal to shoot loose dogs near livestock, should the make a move towards them! At any rate dogs should / must be kept on leads in the area of livestock.

 
I wish a fox would come into my garden. Mrs Treeman seems to have forgotten we no longer live on a farm. Our very small garden currently has 5 bantams, 3 chickens, 2 ducks and a Goose! There's hardly any grass left, and not to mention the noise, when they all decide who can be the loudest :bang:

Maybe I could accidentally turn off the electric fence :naughty:
 
Kerioak said:
I still have the body - would you like me to post it to you ?


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I wonder what really happened to the fox in the story in the news - I could put "mine" back in the chicken run and see if they peck it :gag::nuts:
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There was something many, many ago, quite famously at the time.
An old woman slipped and fell in a chicken run.
For what ever reason, she couldn't get up to feed the chickens, so they "pecked" and ate a portion of her.
It was never made clear whether they actually killed her or she had died of "natural" causes.
 
Yv said:
the next cat we ever have will be as big as a fox if I have anything to do with it ;)
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In that case get a Maine Coon, they're mahoosive!
 
Cobra said:
She though I was joking, when I asked her to put them on leads,
That is until I pointed a 223 at the closest one and slid the bolt back and forth.[/COLOR]
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...You're an odd 13 year old :gag::thinking:
 
My folks have one,

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And he's only a baby! :gag:
 
trencheel303 said:
My folks have one,

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And he's only a baby! :gag:
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Awww... Bless!

Now given the choice between cats and foxes, I'd rather have the foxes! Cat's are nothing more than a monumental pain in the rear!

Dogs are better than cats any day... And Golden Retrievers are the greatest of the lot! ;) :D

Si
 
Kerioak said:
I still have the body - would you like me to post it to you ?


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I wonder what really happened to the fox in the story in the news - I could put "mine" back in the chicken run and see if they peck it :gag::nuts:
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Acording to the Daily Mail they think one of the roosts got caught, fell off and knocked the fox out, then a particulary nasty cockeral attacked it. I did wonder at first if the story was about your chickens.
 
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