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just sat here at 03:20 on the floor in front of the patio doors on facebook cos I cant sleep and the dogs have kicked off down the garden so I looked up and there it was a F##king fox looking straight

at me through the patio doors

so I jumped up and went to let the guys out there kennels before they woke the street up as I walked down the garden the fox was running backwards and forwards around the garden among the trees and shrubs as I have a 6ft fence around it,by the time I had turned the alarm of down the pens I could hear the fox scrambling to get over the fence,I opened the doors of the kennels and the dogs nearly knocked me out with it, the dogs where gone that fox soon cleared than 6ft fence

 

Only telling you this because I was quite suprized to see it as I live in the middle of town and the sheer cheek of it, thought it was pretty cool though

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Ive seen three in my back garden in the last couple of years, i keep a few fowel,s down there but they havent had any yet, i,ve seen them at 8am, one at 3 in the afternoon and another after tea, god knows whats going on in the middle of the night, cheeky fuckers :hmm: , I,ve built my dog pen down there, sooner i find a dog the better ;) .

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A neighbour of mine had a few ducks out his back garden in a council estate went down one morning and the gate on the pen was open ,when he went into the shed there was a massive dog fox sitting there with a dead duck in his mouth and it never even fliniched and just carried on eating until he chased it out,i was disgusted he didn't think of calling in to me to dispatch it.

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theres more in the towns than the country side now [loads around here]

some time back had a cocker bitch with pups in stable this bitch would bark like mad i check out why and could not find any thing rong next night bitch started barking like mad so went and looked and thier was a dog fox was eating her bicskets from her bowl and he did not even flinch just carried on eating so got lurcher and took care of problem but this just shows how they will acked when they want

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