So why shoot foxes?

[Paul at Fechan]

I watched three cubs playing too once on the first day on a new permission while the farmers son was walking me round the ground. They had real fox problems and a two for one shot was offered so I made it. The last one went down a few moments later as it waiting for the others to run with it. Now, this farms last year losses were several dozen lambs including some pedigree pet ones out of the lambing shed so there could be no second chances here and the vixen went down that night followed by several more of all ages over the next couple of weeks.

When you see gratitude and relief painted all over the face of a farmer you know what you've done is right.

 

[dave1372]

anybody who wants to see the eradication of anything (exceptions being grey squirrels and signal crayfish) doesnt deserve to have a firearm or even a catapult. Foxes are beautiful creatures but owing to our own meddling with the ecosystem (the human race is the biggest parasite on earth) we have to control them. I wouldn't personally even like to see rats eradicated because after all we have thrown at them they still bounce back and they have their place.

I shoot them as they do need controlled on the farms where I shoot that have either pheasant syndicates on them and/or sheep and the farmer wants them controlled. I don't think that we will ever eradicate them. I am fairly sure sure that I read somewhere that good ole mother nature always finds a way to redress the balance ie litters are larger in areas where the densities of foxes has decreased and in higher density areas they tend to have smaller litters.

As you quite rightly mentioned if you were to examine the human race from the perspective of our own population growth over the last few hundred years and the resources we consume on our lovely planet then we are something along the lines of a cancer to our own planet......shame really!

 

[countrysports]

fire at will lol

 

[cowsmart]

Don't need to shoot them here..the A75 Castle Douglas bypass and the irish HGV's late for the ferry at 2.30am sort most things out..2 months ago tally was 5 fox 1 dog otter and 2 cats in a 200 yard stretch over a 5 day period..

 

[finnbear270]

Those Irish truckers will take anything / anyone as a bonnet mascot , they pass us mere mortals limited to 56 mph like we are out for a stroll!