fox bites

[tearem 31]

If you never come near, or handle a live fox, you will not get bitten. Most people here only shoot them.

They are afraid of them and stay at a distance. Because of the dangerous fox tapeworm most people here don't even pick up a dead fox without gloves.

I know many fox diggers who don't know how to handle live foxes and will avoid it, or use tongs or any other tool to stay separated from the quarry. I think if you work to and with foxes, (or badgers) you must be able to handle them, too. And so it goes for wild boar.

When you dig, sometimes you must handle a live fox, for exemple, to separate fox from dog before the fox can be shot. We do open up on the dog's collar and then try to barricade between dog and quarry with a spade or so, but often when we open, dog and fox are in contact, or there is more than one fox in different places there and the nearest fox tries to escape and bites the dog, or people when they're in the way.

I had to catch a live fox once for a research program, the fox had to be collared with a radio signal collar.

So we netted a diggable earth and I put in an old, experienced, toothless terrier so the fox would bolt whole. It bolted in the net so I ran over and took net and fox and the research man demanded to take it over immediately and I gave it to him, saying the fox was angry after the confrontation with the terrier and would bite. But he didn't take heed and was bitten in the hand badly. After that he sat down on every live fox with his body weight, clamping the fox's neck down between and beneath his knees so it almost got crushed.

By the way, I never knew rabbits bit people? Rabid rabbit? Better be careful for that too in the future.

[welshhound2 20]

If you never come near, or handle a live fox, you will not get bitten. Most people here only shoot them.

They are afraid of them and stay at a distance. Because of the dangerous fox tapeworm most people here don't even pick up a dead fox without gloves.

I know many fox diggers who don't know how to handle live foxes and will avoid it, or use tongs or any other tool to stay separated from the quarry. I think if you work to and with foxes, (or badgers) you must be able to handle them, too. And so it goes for wild boar.

When you dig, sometimes you must handle a live fox, for exemple, to separate fox from dog before the fox can be shot. We do open up on the dog's collar and then try to barricade between dog and quarry with a spade or so, but often when we open, dog and fox are in contact, or there is more than one fox in different places there and the nearest fox tries to escape and bites the dog, or people when they're in the way.

I had to catch a live fox once for a research program, the fox had to be collared with a radio signal collar.

So we netted a diggable earth and I put in an old, experienced, toothless terrier so the fox would bolt whole. It bolted in the net so I ran over and took net and fox and the research man demanded to take it over immediately and I gave it to him, saying the fox was angry after the confrontation with the terrier and would bite. But he didn't take heed and was bitten in the hand badly. After that he sat down on every live fox with his body weight, clamping the fox's neck down between and beneath his knees so it almost got crushed.

By the way, I never knew rabbits bit people? Rabid rabbit? Better be careful for that too in the future.

you aint seen some of the lasses over her yet some are more rabid than the rabbit

[Cleanspade 3,322]

i was bitten though my thumb on the nuckle where it meets my hand. it was only a first season vixen but it put a hole right through the bone. one of the most painfull things. my thumb is mis shaped to this day and that was over twenty years ago.

 

we used to catch and release many of the foxes we caught. after shakeing there paw never been bit since. its far to sore

 

 

as the saying goes once bitten twice shy

Edited February 27, 2011 by Cleanspade

[Guest RAB.MCKAY]

:11: never bitten yet thank fk

be honest in my opinion thats wat a lurcher is for .

 

have had reasons for handeling them but , starting pups and throwing it up the field for new dog and so on .

try to avoid it if i can .

but thers never a shortage of people busting to get close and personal so im happy to watch .

[taz2010 1,297]

i was bitten though my thumb on the nuckle where it meets my hand. it was only a first season vixen but it put a hole right through the bone. one of the most painfull things. my thumb is mis shaped to this day and that was over twenty years ago.

 

we used to catch and release many of the foxes we caught. after shakeing there paw never been bit since. its far to sore

 

 

 

as the saying goes once bitten twice shy

lol good pic mate

[perthshire keeper 1,239]

ive been btten on the boot a few times trying to take them out of snares but never realy bitten my head keeper got it bad on the fore arm below the elbow he just punched the shit out of it then pulled its jaws apart, hard barsteward! blood every where