Disgusted by this Daily Mail article. News or propoganda?

[jedimistress]

http://www.dailymail....in-weighed-38lbs.html

[shoota]

The poster is conspicuous by her absence...........

[chaptazbru]

Poor fox.

[Exmothian]

.... Domestic cats kill small furry animals for fun too but we don't apply the same criteria to them do we ?
In addition the little buggers crap in my garden , which is a danger to my grandchildren , personally I'd shoot their owners !!

[Exmothian]

PS I'm not a fascist supporter so,don't read the vacuous Mail
it's a nasty paper with nasty reporters, like Anne Leslie .... Horrible woman !

[B00]

Would also like to say that foxes do not kill for pleasure.

"foxes do not kill for fun. Most animals need to find food every day to survive. Some nights are better than others in terms of food for a fox so, given the opportunity, foxes will always kill surplus food and cache (bury) it, to eat on another night when hunting is less good. This is a very successful strategy for surviving in the wild.

However, when a fox breaks into a hen house it is surrounded by easily caught prey. Its normal behaviour, and a good survival strategy is to kill all prey available and try to cache it. Given the option, the fox will come back for the remaining corpses and cache them. The solution is easy: securely house your animals."

Taken from

http://www.thefoxwebs...s/commonmyths.html#q2

[chaptazbru]

Good post BOO. I like foxes.

[nannybooby]

I dont like to see him holding the fox up like that ,it lacks something. However , we had a large dog fox living in the woods at the back of our last house ,I was in the garden hang out washing and it strolled down the garden towards me I flapped the washing at it and said shoo but it just looked at me like I was mad ! I was v scared and went back in the house, I didnt fancy tackling it . We also had the two yorkies ay the time and I was terrified he would see them as lunch.

[chaptazbru]

I agree it lacks something nanny - he probably calls himself a man too.

[nannybooby]

I was thinking about a bit of respect for any animal, he obviously needed to cull it ,the method was humain but this macho posturing is not on.

[shoota]

I think he is holding the fox like that to ennable comparison of his size and the size of the fox. The point here is the exceptional size of the fox. If they all end up this big they will have a very serious impact on human activity.

[nannybooby]

see your point but laid out by a yard stick (sorry meter stick ???) would have been better and not so controversial

[Kristal53]

An explanation for the question "is this propoganda" I can see is that the OP thinks maybe the pro-hunting lot will take up the fact that now hunting has been banned (ha ha we kknow they still do it), the countryside is being overcome with monster sized foxes that will take our pets and small children...

[jno]

... and the workshy.... and benefit cheats... and immigrants... and people who talk too loudly on their mobiles on the train...