Channel 4 (UK) Tuesday 16th April 9pm BST "Meet the foxes"

I have no idea what the program is going to say, but on Channel 4 (UK)
Tuesday 16th April at 9pm BST, there's a documentary in the "Cuttting
Edge" series titled "Meet the foxes".

To me, they'll never be anything more than chicken-wrecking vermin:
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c180/digitaltoast/dead_fox_chicken.jpg

Although, I did have to fight hard not to laugh at my slightly mental
neighbour who used to FEED FOXES (yes, you read that right), and then
got all upset and only stopped feeding them when some foxes shredded
her beloved and precious cat one night. Served her right.

Anyway the blurb at http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/C/cutting_edge/foxes.html
says:
The film follows the fox family as they eek out a living feeding on
rubbish left out by their two-legged neighbours and occasionally
getting into trouble by making a mess, creating a racket, having sex
in public and worst still, feeding on things they shouldn't.

One human, Howard, is very unhappy having the fox family around -
particularly after his daughter's chickens get slaughtered yet again.
But not all the humans dislike foxes. Alan and June love having Miss
Fox around and even store up old chicken livers to put out for her and
her cubs to enjoy whilst secretly filming them from cameras hidden in
plant pots in the garden.

Eventually the cubs go their separate ways and leave home. The male
cubs discover the hard way that life as an urban fox is never easy and
fall prey to the continual conflict with humans - one of them being
knocked over by a car, the other contracting mange and having to be
put down and the third causing too much of a commotion for his human
neighbours and being captured by pest control experts, Bruce and
Jamie.

Timid the vixen on the other hand meets a fox from the suburbs who has
followed the train tracks into town in search of a better life. In
true Romeo & Juliet fashion, the fox and Timid fall in love and set up
home in a cosy derelict house where the pregnant vixen prepares to
give birth to her first litter. The fox - ever the perfect mate -
takes care of Timid, scavenging for food left out by their two-legged
neighbours. He strays into Howard's garden, who has become so
exasperated with his vulpine visitors that he's hired trained marksman
and professional exterminator, Bruce, to eradicate them. Armed with a
rifle, Bruce lies in wait for the foxes.

Meet the Foxes offers a fresh perspective on the clash between nature
and the increasingly urbanised UK.

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Relevant Pages

  • National Fox Welfare Frequently Asked Questions
    ... Please could you tell me when fox cubs are born, ... enough to see the fox cubs moving around mid April. ... Foxes do not make good ... Foxes being territorial animals will mark their territory ...
    (sci.agriculture.poultry)
  • Re: National Fox Welfare Frequently Asked Questions
    ... >Please could you tell me when fox cubs are born, ... >enough to see the fox cubs moving around mid April. ... Foxes do not make good ... Foxes being territorial animals will mark their territory ...
    (sci.agriculture.poultry)
  • Re: Hello Again
    ... If anyone has an open mind on the subject, track down the internet videos of what happens when a pack of hounds catch up with a fox. ... Could it be that people are finding hunting more attractive now that it doesn't involve the torture or wild animals. ... You've never witnessed the end of a hunt, ... New Labour has made it illegal to hunt foxes with more than one hound. ...
    (uk.people.support.depression)
  • Re: Yesterday we received the great news that the Hunting Bill will be reintroduced to the Commons n
    ... Personally I don't particularly believe in fox hunting, ... but never really thought about the foxes as round here there ... > 2) I don't allow the hunt on my land. ...
    (sci.agriculture.poultry)
  • Re: McLaughlins Weird, Neurotic Fixation On Foxes & Fox Hunters
    ... But do you claim to know a lot about foxes in the wild or do you ... had been attacked by a fox. ... had multiple fox attacks. ... foxes act when they attack domestic poultry. ...
    (soc.genealogy.britain)