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It's not nice when something like this happens, but it is extremely rare.The problem with practically encouraging them like this is sooner or later they will grab something far more serious than a sandwich.
https://metro.co.uk/2018/02/15/killer-urban-fox-attacks-baby-bouncer-sneaking-family-home-7314171/
It's not nice when something like this happens, but it is extremely rare.
Ok I've spent quite a bit of time on this and I give up!I've had to start watering the garden.
Ok I've spent quite a bit of time on this and I give up!
After the trailcam footage I got last night, I'd be happy never to see another fox near my garden
Ah I see, TBH I'm just loving what I am seeing from the Fox family (+ Badgers & Hedgehog) in my back garden.
Choice would be easy for me!One of our dogs has brought fox poop into the house twice to chew on....
I’m sure you know (I think it’s been on TV) that a Russian bred captive foxes selecting for tameness and got very tame foxes in very few generations.And the other story that goes with this is that one of the Glasgow universities (I forget which without looking for it again and I can't get it wrong or I'll upset my partner..........) has done a study that shows that urban foxes are diverging from rural foxes in their brains and even the shape of their faces. They're adapting like dogs when they began to be domesticated. But they're far from cute and cuddly, and this is what some people just don't understand.
A neighbour was worried because she hasn't seen the hedgehogs she feeds on her patio for a few,
asked me if I could set up the trailcam
Hedgehogs didn't appear until much later the usual, one was happily feeding whilst the another watched, waiting it's turn.
Next thing a fox dashes across the patio and grabs the waiting one, turns and runs off with it, lots of noise
A later clip showed a hedgehog try hard to get back across the patio area towards the food, wasn't moving well
Later clip showed another hedgehog stopping sniffing around where the injured one first stopped
I've had clips of the hedgehogs and foxes together in my front bit and they never took any notice of each
normally, but looking back, the last encounter about a week ago, the hedgehog did stop when it saw the fox,
turned and scuttled off so perhaps it's happened before
I've always been told that foxes don't harm healthy hedgehogs, seems it's not true
Gardens are being turned into “watering holes” and we know that doesn’t always end well . Its possibly causing concentrations of animals in close proximity that may encounter each other more rarely normally. Maybe our back gardens are the ”Wuhan wet markets“ of U.K. ;(.From my post in the what annoyed me today thread
Don't know what has changed, previously foxes would clear the hedgehog food this one didn't even try , perhaps it's a new on to this area and
not one of the resident pair, still annoying and sad to see.
I have another video of a hedgehog with an injured hind leg so this might explain that too
Gardens are being turned into “watering holes” and we know that doesn’t always end well . Its possibly causing concentrations of animals in close proximity that may encounter each other more rarely normally. Maybe our back gardens are the ”Wuhan wet markets“ of U.K. ;(.
From my post in the what annoyed me today thread
Don't know what has changed, previously foxes would clear the hedgehog food this one didn't even try , perhaps it's a new on to this area and
not one of the resident pair, still annoying and sad to see.
I have another video of a hedgehog with an injured hind leg so this might explain that too
You feed them dried Hedgehog and then complain about the Foxes?I have footage of them going onto the patio and eating the dried hedgehog regularly left out.
You feed them dried Hedgehog and then complain about the Foxes?
Damned expensive, £8 for 2kg bag that doesn't last that long
It's just nature though....like a lion eating a zebra.After the trailcam footage I got last night, I'd be happy never to see another fox near my garden
It's just nature though....like a lion eating a zebra.
Zebra population est 500,000But there's a lot more zebras
Not when the badgers up their game there won’t beBut there's a lot more zebras
Not me, my neighbour but they seems to like it and thrive on it, gets cleared every night, even last night
without the help of the foxes
Damned expensive, £8 for 2kg bag that doesn't last that long
Ps I doubt it contains dried hedgehog
Is the hedgehog food your neighbour puts out in the open? If so, then that could be at least part of the problem as the foxes will be attracted to the food and therefore encounter the hedgehogs more.
I used to put wet dog food out for the hedgehogs, but the local cat ate it. I then tried dry dog food. The cat left that alone, but the foxes ate it. The solution was to make a hedgehog feeding station with baffles so the fox can't get in and weigh it down with planters(at the moment I reckon it weighs about 9kg in total).
Although the fox can't get to the food, it did try for a while. Now when foxes come in the garden they have a nose around, pee and or poo and leave so they don't meet a hedgehog that often.
Fox trying to get in the hedgehog feeder -
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52PQbbkrm-I
Dave
Is the hedgehog food your neighbour puts out in the open? If so, then that could be at least part of the problem as the foxes will be attracted to the food and therefore encounter the hedgehogs more.
A problem may be that now it’s acquired a taste for hedgehog it may carry on and possibly teach it to its offspring etc .Yes it always has been, when I fed them I just had a dish.too.
She is going to look into getting a box for the food so only the hedgehogs can get
it as local cats do snack on it.
It's strange I have a lot on video with the foes and hedgehog close together with no interest in each other,
Last couple of days it seems the fox has no interest in the food, just taking the hedgehogs
Don't think I've put this up before, but this was the first time I thought there might be a problem,
as you can see the hedgehog isn't using it's back leg, which is typical fox damage
View: https://youtu.be/bsr1i-VUnrw
I was just thinking the quality is very good.BTW What trail camera do you use? Its quality is far better than mine.