I would suggest a warning - personally.
If you have / had checked out Fracs "work" in the past he tends to specialise in this type of imagery.I was sort of expecting a portrait of a lost pet or similar.
This is pretty nasty.
A sad photo. Ignorance is bliss. I hope you don't mind, but if people fancy feeling a bit better after seeing this, look here:
If you have / had checked out Fracs "work" in the past he tends to specialise in this type of imagery.
I can understand you feel the need to "re-dress" the balance Gary
but what these people are doing is illegal
1)foxes are vermin there is no getting away from that "the
government" say so.........
2) "they" also say that it is illegal to "feed, encourage or harbour"
that goes for Grey squirrels and rabbits as well.
As I said I am completely ignorant to it. I see Foxes as fluffy ginger dogs To me, they are majestic, cute and in need of some TLC. The truth of the matter, is I guess, in stark contrast to my rose tinted specs version.
I am not having a dig at Fracster, not one bit. As I said, ignorance, is bliss *dont ya love the Matrix ).
Gary.
No worries mate, everybody is perfectly entitled to thier own opinion.......
I don't have an opinion as such - I don't really know the deal with Foxes, I just have a "mushy, made up ideal"
Can I ask, what is the deal? They carry Rabies - are they "fair game" so to speak? I mean, could I if I wanted to, take a gun and shoot a fox, without any trouble?
Gary.
Yep, you fancy some lessons?............
Foxes are still classed as vermin, as Chris points out, in the spring I shall get some photos as to why they are still classed as vermin.
And yes, when, not if, we get rabies in this country, cute little Mr Reynard will be the main carrier.
I don't have an opinion as such - I don't really know the deal with Foxes, I just have a "mushy, made up ideal"
Can I ask, what is the deal? They carry Rabies - are they "fair game" so to speak? I mean, could I if I wanted to, take a gun and shoot a fox, without any trouble?
Gary.
Well, I think that's a superb image. Its powerful and well taken. Well done.
Gary,
Rabies is all but extinct in the UK and has been for quite sometime
BUT with all this intercontinental travel and "pet smuggling" its not really a
matter of IF but WHEN, then thing will really get nasty
If you have a licenced gun and the land owners or their agents permission to
shoot on "that" land then you can take out vermin ( yes that includes foxes)
or game what ever the "arangement is.
Foxes in a hen house or game bird pen don't just kill one and go, they will
kill "most" bury a few, eat a few "bits" and leave.
If they weren't such indescriminent killers then maybe they would be left in peace
Urban foxes are an increasing problem
not only will they raid bins but tear open rabbit and guinea pig pens
and eat "fluffy" or half anyway, and leave the child to find the bits.
This is not meant to shock I have seen this first hand,
your average Joe is quite happy to see or have foxes around until "this type
of thing happens" and thats when the like of Frac or me are called to take care of things
I hope that goes a little way to help you see why "these things" are done
Cheers mate, I really was not aware of that side of it.
Gary.
Not many are Gary.
But anyway, do you like my pic or not?...............
On a technical level, the detail on the fox is ace. Would be good if its "prey" were in focus, but that is a nit pick. It is definately a powerful image too, so I do like it yes
Gary.
Cheers mate, I really was not aware of that side of it.
Gary.
But anyway, do you like my pic or not?...............
No worries Gary as Frac said everyone is entitled to an opinion and Kudos to you for asking for more info
No its s**t ..........poor Raynard
I do have a problem with fox hunting, a gun is a much quicker and more humane way of dealing with it.
As some of you may know I used to breed various ducks and chickens. I occasionally lost one to a fox which I did not like but put up with. However on one visit it killed 12 of my call ducks in a large open pen so I put nearly all my birds in a pen that was supposedly fox proof. The result was that I lost over 50 call ducks (minature ducks) and bantam hens, most of which were home bred, and which were discovered just after lunch by a friend's young children who had come to look at the birds.
These pictures are a few years old and I was sobbing as I took them, they were scanned in from prints for which I cannot currently find the originals to create better copies. They show just a few of the remains of my beautiful little ducks
Aye, that looks about right for a fox kill Christine,sorry to see that.
We lose birds to Owls,hawks,stoats etc etc when they are young, they kill to eat and feed thier young.I don`t mind that,within reason. Whilst the country fox is a magnificent creature to see,they are so much "redder" than urban foxes, the simple fact is that they kill because they can, not because they have to.I really would not mind them taking the odd pheasant and eating it, but they don`t,they kill as many as they can and leave intact carcasses (usually with the heads nipped off) scattered around the feeding pens.
Thats insane, what is it that drives them to kill? Sounds like a "freak of nature" so to speak, I mean - most animals kill to eat, to survive? But by what you are saying, the fox simply kills because it can.
Is this due to an instinct that maybe says "Kill now, eat later"?
I am fascinated to be honest, and a little shocked at this trait.
Gary.