Fox In The Garden

[quizzywig]

Was giddy with excitement yesterday as a fox jumped over the fence into my back garden which is enclosed. Rushed to get my phone to take a pic - its a smart phone type, never had one before and just getting used to it - dithered trying to take a photo (pressing like mad in the wrong place) when foxy spotted me and decided to scarper, jumping back over the fence to get to the fields (we live in a rural area) I know loads of people don't like foxes for whatever reason, but I do. Thinking about it, it would have been so much better if I had stood still and just watched him instead of running around like a mad thing!

[Dee Sa]

I feel very sorry for foxes, but I don't feed them.

[murraymints]

Don't like them in garden....get too brazen and make a real mess with droppings and scavenging...

[emmie]

we have loads in the capital, the only objection is when they are looking for a mate, the noise is unearthly, one lonely soul woke me one morning around 3, made my blood curdle.

[Ellesbells]

I agree em.....then when they find their mate it sounds like a murder is taking place :)

[Baldric]

Part of the family income when I was a kid came from poultry breeding.
Foxes were not our friends.
I still regard them as vermin.

[kala]

Lots of people call them vermin but they are not on DEFRA's official list of vermin. They are just trying to survive like everyone else.

[snags]

Plenty of Foxes round here until recently. They suddenly disappeared and over the next few weeks the majority were found dead - probably poisoned by someone (not me!) fed up with their screeching, sh!tting and bin raiding.

[friedgreentomato]

I love foxes, they are very clever adapting to what life is throwing at them.

[beegeebee]

One trots past my house every morning between 5.55 and 6.05. Get the camera ready, to take his/her pic, on the tripod etc., but can never get the pic. either I'm burstin for the loo or MOH calls for tea in bed!! bl@@dy ridiculous. Need to find some sort of trigger mechanism!