Fox bites woman's finger off

[eeyore]

Originally Posted by bigdave60dog

Many people ( including many that contribute to WAB) continue to feed foxes and encourage them to lose respect for humans then don`t believe that they will bite.
Foxes are wild animals. Wild animals are magnificent but all will attack in the right circumstances. These circumstances can even include seeing off competition for food.
Lets try a bit of common sense before there is concerted effort to exterminate all foxes from areas where they may come into contact with humans driven by hysteria.

i dont think anyone here doesnt believe foxes can bite - what most of us have difficulty with is the media creation of a demonic vulpine monster that wants to creep into your house and savage you in your sleep.

foxes (like most wild animals) have relatively simle needs - they want food, sex and shelter from threat , and they dont need to enter your house to get any of the above

they are also natural scavengers so there is no problem with leaving food out for them and watching from a reasonable distance - they only lose their fear of man if idiots try to domesticate them by enticing them insite, getting them used to being touched etc

indeed common sense would dictate that if everyone who feeds foxes suddenly stopped they would be more likely to become a problem as they are more likely to enter houses in search of food if they are hungry

[counterlady]

Originally Posted by eeyore

i dont think anyone here doesnt believe foxes can bite - what most of us have difficulty with is the media creation of a demonic vulpine monster that wants to creep into your house and savage you in your sleep.

foxes (like most wild animals) have relatively simle needs - they want food, sex and shelter from threat , and they dont need to enter your house to get any of the above

they are also natural scavengers so there is no problem with leaving food out for them and watching from a reasonable distance - they only lose their fear of man if idiots try to domesticate them by enticing them insite, getting them used to being touched etc

indeed common sense would dictate that if everyone who feeds foxes suddenly stopped they would be more likely to become a problem as they are more likely to enter houses in search of food if they are hungry

Hear hear Eeyore. Its all just media hype.

I remember watching a film once about a little girl and a fox. She made friends with it in the fox's wild environment and she spent hours following the fox around - even falling asleep snuggling it - but she kept enticing it to her house. Eventually it went in and she trapped it in her bedroom and the fox went mental, tearing up her room and even biting her eventually it jumped straight through the window (and it wasnt open). She didnt blame the fox the ending was she now understood that wild was wild and even though the fox accepted her in his world he had no intention of being in her world - trapped.
It was an odd film but showed some home truths.

[tcvarlh]

Originally Posted by counterlady

Hear hear Eeyore. Its all just media hype.

I remember watching a film once about a little girl and a fox. She made friends with it in the fox's wild environment and she spent hours following the fox around - even falling asleep snuggling it - but she kept enticing it to her house. Eventually it went in and she trapped it in her bedroom and the fox went mental, tearing up her room and even biting her eventually it jumped straight through the window (and it wasnt open). She didnt blame the fox the ending was she now understood that wild was wild and even though the fox accepted her in his world he had no intention of being in her world - trapped.
It was an odd film but showed some home truths.

Good Lord, I saw that too, aeons ago. I had forgotten it. It was very weird but as you say showed the truth.
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[STYRBJORN]

That is just my point though, and I think Big Dave's It's all very well getting your local friendly urban fox family used to coming into your back garden for a takeaway. But then the cubs move out and expect the same welcome elsewhere. They are made unwelcome, react as the wild animals they are, and the red-tops have another fox scare story. As I see it, people who feed urban foxes are doing them no favours at all in the long run.

[SheffieldLass]

Originally Posted by Kayleigh

Next time you walk there it will be waiting for you ready to pounce...

be afraid...be very afraid...

If you go down to the woods today (as I did) be sure of a big surprise ... a very big surprise ... a monster killer fox surprise, eyeing me up and licking his lips. I had a lucky escape though ... but some FC workers were not so lucky, there was an empty Forestry Commission vehicle nearby but no sign of any FC workers ...

[tcvarlh]

Originally Posted by SheffieldLass

If you go down to the woods today (as I did) be sure of a big surprise ... a very big surprise ... a monster killer fox surprise, eyeing me up and licking his lips. I had a lucky escape though ... but some FC workers were not so lucky, there was an empty Forestry Commission vehicle nearby but no sign of any FC workers ...

Na, if FC workers are anything like their oppos in Austria they were all down at the 'Slaughtered Lamb' waiting for the howling to start!
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