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

"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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0tterbot wrote:
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Proper foxes are animals to be admired.

I am not disagreeing with anything you say
I was careful to qualify my statement with the word "proper"

When there is a healthy [moderated] natural population of foxes then the
problems we see here and you see there are not so prevalent.
A healthy population is one where the weak and the old and the sick are
culled out by any effective predator.

i understand what you're saying. i just think it's off the mark to
blame humans for what's happened.

You just did. ;)

well yes - in that humans brought them here. :-) but then humans are their
only predators. humans are good predators, but i'm not sure there's any
chance they could wipe out foxes. goodness knows they try, though ;-) it's
not right to say the foxes aren't predated (they are) but perhaps it has
only made them stronger as the dim-witted ones eat the baits, and the slow
ones get shot or hit by cars, and the rest are a Monster Breed ;-)

There is no effective predator to control yours - so the population is not
a strong healthy one - its an unmanaged weak one.
Here its idiots feeding them and allowing them to over populate areas so
the population becomes sick, weak, and mangy.

[a strong population is one that is made up of healthy hunting animals and
where the old, sick, weak are controlled by lack of food or a predator/ a
weak population may have more individuals but the health overall is poor
and they rely on easy food and close proximity with Man to survive; they
have no effective predators nor no limiters like food supply]

Then do-gooders think that stopping hunting and exporting foxes from the
city to the country is a bright idea.
There were even so complete numptys who took some onto an island off the
West Coast of Scotland where there had been none before.
DUH!!!!

they somehow (!) made it to tasmania recently too where they had never
previously been. it makes you want to scream, doesn't it?
kylie


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