foxcub

[micky 3,325]

first thing this morning while i was checking some rabbit wires, i found a fox cub in a fence wire ,it had been partly eaten from the rear, three feet away was a young rabbit in a bodygrip ,that had not been touched.i have caught a few cubs over the years ,but this is the first time ihave had one eaten.

micky

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Micky; I think ye've just beaten the shit out of Moleys rabbit, hands down, with That one mate!

 

This is Definately one for 'Snareman'!

[alimac 882]

where was the wire on its body?? quite far back ??

[moley 115]

Micky; I think ye've just beaten the shit out of Moleys rabbit,

 

 

no , it wasn,t micky , it was a cat

[micky 3,325]

Micky; I think ye've just beaten the shit out of Moleys rabbit,

 

 

no , it wasn,t micky , it was a cat

[micky 3,325]

where was the wire on its body?? quite far back ??

on his neck ,he had been caught fair and square,he had been over and under the fence a couple of times ,so what ate him ,didnt top him.

[gnipper 6,547]

I'll have a bet on his siblings

[highlander 0]

Was out lamping one night and on turning up the hill tack is saw two pairs of eyes definately a fox roughly where I had a snare set about 150 yards off in to the hill so I shot one and it dropped and the other never moved so I shot it to walked up and found two vixens the one in the snare had had its back leg eaten away and it must have been the other fox as it was snared round the neck.

 

Regards highlander

Edited June 17, 2007 by highlander

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

I take the snare had killed the first one?

[sidebyside 0]

The Gamekeeper that was my mentor always skinned his foxes and burried them in very shallow graves, the next couple of nights he would sit down wind of the grave and inevitably would shoot at least one fox digging at the carcase.

[OldTrapCollector 377]

I had a whole fox eaten out I caught in a wire over a railway sleeper footbridge years ago and wondered what might have done it until now, now I know . . .

 

OTC

[micky 3,325]

I had a whole fox eaten out I caught in a wire over a railway sleeper footbridge years ago and wondered what might have done it until now, now I know . . .

 

OTC

i thought it might be badgers,theres lots of them here.the place is alive with rabbits and i snare quite a few but the foxs and badgers beat me to most of them,for some reason they dont bother trapped rabbits,could be the trap puts them off, or the rabbit is dead ,and not as visable ,or vocal as a newly snared rabbit

micky

[snareman 3]

first thing this morning while i was checking some rabbit wires, i found a fox cub in a fence wire ,it had been partly eaten from the rear, three feet away was a young rabbit in a bodygrip ,that had not been touched.i have caught a few cubs over the years ,but this is the first time ihave had one eaten.

micky

micky its been a badger , they always eat in from the backside , and they are great at cleaning up fox carcases ,look what they do to the snared rabbits , sometimes you are only left with a head a skin and 4 paws i have seen this hundreds of times over the years .

[Guest opossumeater]

The fox was probobaly caught in the snare and in its dieing moments called for mommy and a male fox probobaly showed up.

[alimac 882]

we got a call out to a new place a few years back, farmer had seen a few cubs kicking about, he took us round the dens he knew, at one of them we found some cheecky get had beaten us too it, only they had obviously bolted and shot her and not delt with the cubs after, the cubs had eaten nearly half of there mother