three and ahalf hour car journey

[dickyboy 1]

the foxes in the countryside round me(surrey/london) are bigger and better condition than the ones in the town but i do see town foxes in the countryside, skinny little runts! i put it down to the food quality being poor in the city/town even if there is enough.....i am a pest controler and have found them eating vegetable peelings from compost cos they are starving. not exactly a good diet for a fox........so i partly agree with your uncle the foxes are better in the countryside as because they have an abundance of good food but the town foxes are not pushed there(round my way)

 

I think we will end up with two sub species that will break away from each other as i have found town foxes to have smaller heads in general(i do quite a bit of town fox trapping) and some will really go for you!!!

 

 

 

I too have seen a big cat but when i was abt 9yrs old so i thought nothing of it and convinced myself i hadn't although my mate and i always wee scared of the shed lol...lol.... but abt 2 years ago i read an article about the surrey puma! this reminded me of what i had seen so i asked my mother and she confirmed that my friends mother had brought us in from the garden cos she had seen it at the end of the garden we were in. Apparently we sat and watched it try to get the guineapig throught the run.....so thinking about it i watched a cat patting at the guinea pig but a normal cat could not get anywhere near it!!! And one very trust worthy man told me he has seen a lynx....100% broad daylight watching is poults in the pens!!! this man wouldn't even tell me till i had known him over 2years and trusted me as i had questioned him before!!!

 

I believe and like DS don't need to argue about it...i know and thats what matters to me....i would not even shoot one if the chance arose and i had a stalking rifle!!! no need!!

so why do you foxes in town when theres plenty of food for them in the countryside thats what gets me ...???its good to get veiws from different people ..cheers...

 

 

alot of people round here and i am very near the m25 and work both inside and outside of it have a;lot of money and feed foxes as well as the crap that gets dropped....in general round here town foxes are smaller have more diseases and mange etc.........i have caught some really nice foxes from these places too!!! some that would give a good dog a damn good fight cos thats what there thinking rather than run alot of times, many small dogs have been bitten!

 

but i also shot 44 foxes in the relative countryside but there is always small towns/villages within 3-5miles so its a blurry line not the great expanses of the north and west. so these cannot be true country foxes with no town experience but very few had more than fleas, 1 had mange!! about half the town foxes have it as well as heavyburdens of ticks, i thought there would be more ticks in the countryside!!!

 

the foxes have much smaller territories in the town i caught 2 seperate litters and the 2 dog and 1 vixen without moving the trap in my garden!? and just down the road 100yards or so there is a whole litter survived!!!i used to count double figures at the same time!!!

 

I don't think a country fox would survive well in the town as it would be too nervous to get in bins etc just like a town raised fox cannot survive in the countryside as i doesn't have the neccesary skills to catch prey! which has been proved by the releasing of foxes to the countryside...a lamping partner sht 3 foxes in a minute or so and none of them reacted when the others were shot....just sat there and they were adults!!!