Urban fox press reports

[Herne]

Herne, with all due respect you state..........."No one is claiming that foxes are solely or even mainly responsible for spreading the disease nationwide from London to Scotland. I don’t suppose there are many more inter-city foxes than there are inter-parish slugs."

The thread is about Urban fox reports and the report is headed by "Deadly urban fox disease spreading to dogs". I have rightly addressed that headline claim.

Binkle, exactly my point. The key word in there is "urban". The spreading of the parasite within urban areas.

You have misapplied some research findings about the spread of the disease geographically on a nationwide basis and I have rightly pointed out your error.

 

[natalia]

I'm with the foxes on this one, would love to wipe out the Chihuahuas, horrid little things, for Mr Fox was probably having a lovely nap and the rat dog woke him up. And as for lung worm, Donkeys are massive carriers of it and don't show they have it. Also I would be blaming more the urban cat population for spreading it than the foxes, cat's are natural hunters and will hunt down all the birds in the area (who may be infected after eating slugs and snails). Urban foxes on the other hand are scavengers who are simply lazy and after easy pickings and won't actually "hunt" for their food unless they have too. How do I know this? Because my mother has both a pet cat and a pet fox. The cat will go after anything with feathers, stalk it round the garden and pounce. The fox, who clearly knows where his bread is buttered will sleep in the middle of the lawn while the birds eat around him. Both are well fed but the cat has a higher hunting instinct while Mr Fox is more dog like and prefers to wait for his set meal times and hassle the humans. FYI both cat and fox get on great, play together and have frequent games of tag round the garden, oh and both cat and fox are reg. wormed! (Just so you know I am actually pro hunt and had nothing to do with the acquisition of fox nor do I endorse having one, think she actually did it to piss me off as she's anti hunting as I'm off hunting twice a week and every time I come home the bloody thing sits there smirking at me.)

 

[EAST KENT]

I'm with the foxes on this one, would love to wipe out the Chihuahuas, horrid little things, for Mr Fox was probably having a lovely nap and the rat dog woke him up. And as for lung worm, Donkeys are massive carriers of it and don't show they have it. Also I would be blaming more the urban cat population for spreading it than the foxes, cat's are natural hunters and will hunt down all the birds in the area (who may be infected after eating slugs and snails). Urban foxes on the other hand are scavengers who are simply lazy and after easy pickings and won't actually "hunt" for their food unless they have too. How do I know this? Because my mother has both a pet cat and a pet fox. The cat will go after anything with feathers, stalk it round the garden and pounce. The fox, who clearly knows where his bread is buttered will sleep in the middle of the lawn while the birds eat around him. Both are well fed but the cat has a higher hunting instinct while Mr Fox is more dog like and prefers to wait for his set meal times and hassle the humans. FYI both cat and fox get on great, play together and have frequent games of tag round the garden, oh and both cat and fox are reg. wormed! (Just so you know I am actually pro hunt and had nothing to do with the acquisition of fox nor do I endorse having one, think she actually did it to piss me off as she's anti hunting as I'm off hunting twice a week and every time I come home the bloody thing sits there smirking at me.)

Now that`s funny