If you ever needed proof that these vermin need culling........
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I have been growing and showing veg since 1996, a brilliant hobby contrary to popular belief and the views of my mates who think I’m a big poof (I’ve got nothing against poofs however!). This is just a chart of my progress for the 2017 season, if you have any specific questions about ‘showing’ then email me on smithyveg@aol.com and I’ll do my best to answer them.
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17 comments:
Bring back hunting? around here no one has realised that it has been banned.
LOL nice one James.
Anyone who has ever come face to face with one of these sods will soon realise they are evil little bastards and not cuddly Basil Brush's eh?
Golly, pretty sad to hear you feel this way. Although I live in Guernsey where there are no foxes, I also lived in UK, in the countryside, for over 13 years. Foxes are lovely creatures, not much heavier than a domestic cat usually, and only doing what they need to in order to survive. It is incredible that the event quoted ever happened, as this is unheard of, and no doubt this explains why it hit the papers and the Internet. It is because of scaremongering like this that people take serious dislikes to animals such as certain dog breeds etc.
I have a friend, (well, actually a friend of my Mother's), well into her 70's, who has family of foxes that her and her neighbours feed in their gardens. About a year ago she had bad fall in her garden and was knocked out. When she came around one of the young foxes was curled up next to her, not quite touching her, but completely comfortable. She made her way to her feet and headed through the patio doors. The young fox followed her, and sat with his/her nose looking through the glass doors until it could see she was okay. Then it left. To imagine this same creature running, gasping for air, too tired to run any further, yet knowing it had to if it were to avoid a pack of hounds and "Hooray Henries" on horseback taking great pleasure in ripping it apart whilst still alive, breaks my heart, and I am shocked that people still feel this hatred towards such a beautiful creature that is genuinely a part of the British countryside and wildlife. They are not evil, and deserve better than to be described as such. As for the usual " look at what they do to a run full of chickens" line that will no doubt come up, well if farmers did what I do to keep rabbits off my veg and buried wire below ground, then this would not be an issue either. Give these beautiful creatures a chance and don't support culling them in order that a load of pratts on horseback can delight in tormenting a generally harmless creature to death for fun. It is a sad world when we revel in the cruel death of another living creature.
I admire you and what you know about growing vegetables so much Smithyveg, and it is so sad you feel this way. (I speak as a mature adult person who has hand fed wild foxes, and they are amazing and stunning creatures).
As a farmer's son who, as a child, saw the devastation caused to my fathers flock of chicken on a number of occasions, I'm 120% behind Simon on this one.
Foxes don't just kill to survive. They kill indiscriminately and for no other reason than they can. We shot them, poisoned them, in fact anything that would get rid of them so that we could survive to provided the eggs that the public craved. We were damned if we did, and damned if we didn't because the only alternative in those days was battery houses. OK, now there are alternatives, but at what price? Will the public pay the price for a fox-proof free range environment?
Not a prayer!
If it meant no child was ever scratched by a fox let alone maimed or killed in future then it would be totally worth killing every fox in our towns and cities. They are a huge problem. A human life is and always will be worth a million animals. I shall certainly be looking into it with our local council as we have foxes all around us and when you have a grandchild on the way you can't leave anything to chance.
I would also cull so called dangerous dogs.....and anyone who wants to own them. Oh.....and Liverpool fans.
I can't wait for the day when I get into power!
Heck, now my Step Dad is on the cull list as a Liverpool fan, LOL, no, seriously though, let's not forget that any dog, cat, hamster, rabbit etc can scratch a child, we can't cull all of them based on that. Every animal a necessary part of the food chain, and even if all foxes were culled in theory, there would then be an increase in the rodent population that carry far higher risks to humans. In the countryside the rabbits would be out of control and the farmers vegetables would suffer as a result. I have to say up until the news article I have never heard of a fox touching a human child, whether to scratch or bite them, and can only assume it must have been sick in some way to do so, as normally they would avoid humans for obvious reasons. In other countries things like this incident happen with animals such as wolves, lions etc, yet most would not condone a mass culling of these creature, knowing that their children are at far greater risks from traffic, other people and disease.
I sincerely feel for the children involved in this attack, (and their parents), but I feel it unfair to start a witch hunt on the entire fox population as a result.
Simon,all I'll say is that I hope you've got your "Amazing Dancing Bear" well trained.
As it says at the top of the page......this is MY blog and I am ALWAYS right, and this is no exception.
Dan.....I had the bear put down several years ago when it ate one of the neighbours' kids and there was a national outcry.
By the way, did you know that Liverpool fans carry fleas and are carriers for all manner of diseases including Cantgetoffmylazybacksideitis?
This is an appalling story and I feel for the parents and the children but I completely disagree with you. There is no need for a cull. That fox just happened to wander into a house (door open) probably looking for food. I don’t think it woke up that morning and decided that it would intentionally go into a house to maim a couple of children unlike people like you who would happily get up, sniff out a fox and revel in watching it being torn apart. Now, you tell me who the animal is?!
Killed a lot of foxes in my time Simon,mostly by shooting. I dont think stopping fox hunting has caused the increase in numbers. My own local hunt only got 11 in a season and in that same year i shot over 50.In the city it is all the waste that lies about that causes the increase plus milder winters.
Ay up.....the animal rights tossers have joined us LOL
Richard's dog would have to be culled then. Although not highly classed as dangerous has be know to kill. So Richard would also have to be killed under Simons laws.
Prey tell me, what evidence do you have that properly controlled and well trained English Bull Terriers have ever killed or attacked anything?
I've a good mind to set the dog on you!
The dog can stay.....but the pretentious photographist.....mmmm
LOL!
Have you read '100 Places to Stick a Tripod without Vaseline'?
Following this coming Sunday's anticipated day of alcohol abuse, I'll likely be one of the walking dead by Monday, thus saving you the job.
Happy days!
But..when has a well trained fox ever killed anyone? evidence?.
English Bull Terrier killed an 86 year old? not that long ago..never seen a fox do this.
"Well trained" can not be in the new law passed as we can not distinguish which type of dog is well trained, or they would allow the thousands of lovely well trained pitbulls into this country.
Maybe allow behaved foxes only? we could go around the country side and decide which ones are nice.
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