Foxilla

[Tack]

Our neighbourhood has a new problem. It has been noticeable for a couple of months that the cat population has shrunk. I'd see at least 3 different ones in our garden daily and loads more at night on the road. . These are all well-loved pets. Now I'm lucky to see one a week anywhere. In response to a resident's plea for a missing cat it has transpired that on 2 separate occasions someone has seen a fox carrying a dead cat (obviously different cats). Never heard of this before so I thought I'd share.

[Lichtgestalt]

Are you living in London? When I was living there we heard foxes at night roaming around. I think they can kill a cat but only if they are really hungry and desperate

[Tack]

No, this is at our semi-rural home in Berkshire . Yes, we have loads of foxes both there and around our London flat. Rabbit population may well be down due to dry weather/brown grass.

[Morrolan]

yep, sounds like foxes. pretty vicious beasties. we have the odd one running around our property, probably going after the rabbits.

we can kill them, though, and you can't...

[Fat Bob]

Good win for the foxes! However, you've only got the previous government to blame for banning fox hunting.

I'm sure that's the pro-hunt arguments, whereas the anti-hunt argument will be that the fox hunters themselves are attacking the cats and babies.

I bet the previous government some how managed to restrict the news of this sort of thing so it didn't show their fox hunting ban to be incorrect.

[slinky]

Wow, I've just gained a bit more respect for my old cat in the US. We had foxes in the woods behind our house and I remember my neighbors down the street telling us they'd seen our cat chasing a fox out of the woods and into their yard. I knew that cat was a bad @ss