Fox Story

[deggers316]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2277072/Friendly-fox-reared-landlord-barred-pub-month-old-baby-mauled-viciousattack.html#axzz2KgLRU400..........Personally i would have banned the complainant, I would have travel miles for a pub lunch there

[friedgreentomato]

I agree deggers

[sunny-dave]

Me too

[gness]

I wouldn't ban the complainant.....my imagination would see to the extras in their drinks..........bloody interfering twits.

[wolf63]

It's totally mad - the fox that attacked the kiddie was wild and hungry.

Tod is well fed and cared for - he is no more of a threat to humans than his canine 'sibling'.

What we should do is

ban foxes
ban cars
ban alcohol
ban cigarettes
ostracise us fatties
ban chips
ban chocolate
ban dogs
ban cats
ban aggressive people

Maybe the world would be much safer.

[friedgreentomato]

I would feed said complainant's bits to Tod!!

[wolf63]

Tod is cute.

The only truly vicious animals in the world are humans and chimps - they kill because they want to.

[friedgreentomato]

Does gonads get through the filter?

[friedgreentomato]

Yeah I would give his gonads to Tod!!

[wolf63]

Maybe he still has his own gonads

[friedgreentomato]

Lol doubt it - I bet they went as soon as he was old enough to calm him down bless!

[RATTER15]

I have seen and heard of fox being kept as pets a few times, unfortunately they usually go bad and start biting. I dont like the idea of keeping a fox as a pet one little bit, I do love foxes though.

[Sqad]

Difficult.

However I must say that I agree with RATTER....IF, IF the fox had bitten someone, then there may well have been a good case for a compensation claim against the brewery.

[Smowball]

The pic of the fox in the pipe is very cute.

[joggerjayne]

I'm going to join the minority who are a bit worried by the idea of "taming" a wild animal.

It's just the unpredictability factor.

[ummmm]

Ratter - would it be the same risk with a castrated fox?

[chaptazbru]

Totally agree with you deggers. I would love to visit that pub. What a beautiful animal.

[gness]

I take the point Sqad and Ratter have made and this is a serious question, probably for Ratter who seems to know a good deal about wildlife.
Is the risk of this fox biting much greater than the risk of one of the dogs in most of my local pubs biting a customer? Could breweries then ban dogs in case a customer was bitten?

[mccfluff]

i can see why the landlord did it, even the tamest animals will react if they are being baited and it only takes one idiot and the landlord is in big trouble.

[Smowball]

Good point gness.

[friedgreentomato]

and yet they were all happy to drink with the fox prior to the other fox incident - ban the compainant I say!!