Fox Attack On Twin Girls

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I just read this on the 'Latest News' on BBC News but when I clicked on the headline there was no info.

I am shocked and hoping they are not seriously hurt.

But I do have a baby and a fox living in my garden

I think the point about leaving the door open is surely that the parents couldn´t see it from where they were?

I find it very hard to beleive. Sorry but I do

"I wouldn't leave a door open thats asking for some form of local wild life to come in anyway and I don't mean the small fluffy kind." where on earth do you live that your first thought of leaving a door open is to the wildlife that might come in?

My consideration would be more for the opportunist burglers that I'm sure are far more likely to come in than a random wild animal.

Orm, it has been investigated thoroughly.

"But I do have a baby and a fox living in my garden"

Tethersend I think you should let the baby come and live in your house.

Think of the mess...

surely if you reliably feed foxes then they won't be desperate enough to attack babies?

I would also argue it's not feeding foxes that is the issue, simply living in close contact with humans all of the time, that do not harm them in any way will habituate the foxes to humans, and teach them that they have nothing to fear from us.

Foxes also don't carry any more diseases than household pets - even children carry worms

If people are worried about foxes and their children extermination is probably not the answer - unless you kill all foxes another one would probably just move into the space left. Just accept that the foxes are there and take a few simple precautions. Or don't worry about it - fox attacks on children are incredibly rare - there are plenty of things far more likely to harm/kill your child.

Yes I have foxes around, and a 6 week old DD. Not worried in the slightest even though we often leave doors/windows open (we are in Glasgow not London though).

Yes don't blame the fox feeders.

Our lovely chicken farmer feeds his foxes and rarely gets an attack.

He puts the baby cocks out that he's had to kill.

it's like an amicable arrangement.

My nan burnt her kitchen down when the sausages she was grilling for the fox caught fire

My nan burnt her kitchen down when the sausages she was grilling for the fox caught fire

I am giggling like a loon at that.

Cyb, your Nan! how lovely is she.

what a lot of nasty people on this thread.

she IS lovely Margaret, but a nutter to boot

am i allowed to call my nan a nutter ?

obviously foxes are actually vegetarians, and only eat organic carrots from Waitrose. The very idea of them attacking anything is abusrd.

tethersend, you live very very near me . Also, I'm concerned your baby is living in your garden...

Hmmm.... you will know me at the swings by my feral child covered in grass stains.

Still, she keeps the foxes away

yy nutter is term of endearment

I have called mine worse tbh

I remember reading an article once about urban foxes and how they are lovely and not dirty and don't scavenge from bins.
It was all rubbish. I used to regularly see foxes eating chips when I was a student in Leicester walking back late from the pub. (Though they preferred KFC, I suspect.)

some kindof poetic retribution there, cyb.

Urban settings are not foxes' natural environments - they have moved in there because it is an easy source of food and people feeding them or allowing them to ravage bins doesn't help the situation.

People in areas of Canada and North America have this problems with bears - perhaps if the foxes were bigger and more obviously dangerous, people would be less inclined to want to keep them around in settings that are unnatural for them.

We were in Tennessee recently and they take bears very seriously - rubbish bins are secured in proper locked enclosures.

Feeding wild animals of any kind is a stupid thing to do.

Hmmm....grizzly bears and foxes.... IIRC one is huge, bad-tempered and very very strong, the other is the size of a smallish dog, nervous of people and tends to eat nothing larger than a chicken.

And how is it dangerous to feed any wild animal? Am I ok with hedghogs and sparrows or might they also turn on me one day

The latter attacked two babies sleeping in their cot, Orm.