Do Foxes Take Poultry ?

[derekbrown 176]

There was a very sad case about 4 miles from my house a few years ago where a tourist visiting Newgrange was abducted and murdered.

Her body was eventually found and what delayed the identification process was the damage done to her body by wild predators, in this part of the world that can only be rats, foxes and badgers. It was her voice box and dental records mostly destroyed.

 

As for smelling up through the earth ? That was an old trick done years back to stop birds spreading poison. The poison was buried with meat and that night would be dug up.

I've twice seen were dogs were buried and dug up and eaten by badgers.

A great old terrier bitch l had died aged 15 and was buried around 2 foot deep behind the kennels at the side of a ditch,within a few days a fox dug her up,pretty much one of the only foxes that ever came in contact with her and lived to tell the tale.

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

3 foot is the accepted depth it won't get dug up

[Greyman 28,837]

The wife was watching a programme lastnight about Fred West and his wife evil feckers.

They dug a few girls body's from the fields.

And the wife said would fox and badgers eat a dead body if they found it in the field.

I think they would but not sure.

Does anyone know.

sorry I have not read all the thread but in short yes, a friend of my wife is married to a detective and I remember a case some years ago were a young girl local to me went missing from a nightclub, her body was found dumped in a quarry a few weeks later, the guy that done it was eventually caught and convicted through DNA but I remember the said detective telling me how much trouble they had getting it because the body was not buried and the Badgers and foxes had consumed most of the evidence,

[mud 2,044]

years ago lamping,fox was ran and caught,so left it in field to pick up on the way back to drop off at farmers house,on the way back lamped over where first fox was and another fox was standing over it,that fox was ran an caught also,checked the first fox out and the second fox had eaten all the stomach of the first fox

[Plucky1 1,119]

3 foot is the accepted depth it won't get dug up

Do you think the fox would die if the dog was put to sleep by a vet, the "finajet" most vets use is absolutely toxic to a dog and you can see that by the speed they are taken over by it, genuine question ???

I helped my mate bury a GSP that he had been walking on a lead and run over after a car hit it on a country lane, he was a wild fowler and asked me to carry him out onto the marsh with him, 3 of us carried him out half a mile or so in the pissing down rain midwinter, we dug a very deep hole and put him in, the dog weighed at least 70lb and it was a F*cker to carry on rough ground and ditches to cross, anyway we got back to the road by the shoreline to find a police car asking us "what the f*ck we were burying??" they had a report we had been dragging a dead body out there and the lazy cnuts had sat watching us rather than get their feet wet, I promptly told them to "f*ck off" but they were serious, luckily they knew my mate and his dog "MAX" letting us go like they doing us a favour, WM

[Daniel cain 45,967]

I took my old black dog to the vets and had him pts-vet asked what I was doing with his corpse -I told her he was going in the ground under a big old oak on the ground where I used to live (golf course turned into country park come out door pursuits place these days)I had a little chuckle when she said I'd have to put him deep because he could be dug up and kill what ever ate him lol-still dealing with them after his passing lol.rip bud.atb dc

[DogMan85 722]

It does make me laugh when you hear hunters go on about foxes killing other animals. They are a predator, it goes with the territory. Let's not pretend that we are concerned about the animals they slaughter hahahaha it's a means to and end. ?