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Fox in Britain please : I have a question

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Martine

Alpha Buck
Hello all :wave:

Reading your posts I see that you have a lot of fox everywhere and really bold . I am surprised, are they protected in Britain or hunted ? Because over here, there are not so numerous and really wild.. Hunters are allowed to kill a certain number per year (quota) but the species has suffered from massive culling by gas in the early 70-80ies, due to rabbies.. Now they are vaccinated by helicopter : they just drop a piece of meat with the vaccine... Rabbies has now almost disappeared from the territory except for cases of illegaly introduced dogs, and a few wild carnivoras such as bats, but not systematically of course... this is why vaccination is mandatory now.
 
Martine said:
Hello all :wave:

Reading your posts I see that you have a lot of fox everywhere and really bold . I am surprised, are they protected in Britain or hunted ? Because over here, there are not so numerous and really wild.. Hunters are allowed to kill a certain number per year (quota) but the species has suffered from massive culling by gas in the early 70-80ies, due to rabbies.. Now they are vaccinated by helicopter : they just drop a piece of meat with the vaccine... Rabbies has now almost disappeared from the territory except for cases of illegaly introduced dogs, and a few wild carnivoras such as bats, but not systematically of course... this is why vaccination is mandatory now.
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Hunting with packs of dogs is now banned. Hunters get around the law by using dogs to 'flush the foxes out' and then supposedly make the kill with birds of prey:shock:!
It is, I believe, legal for them to be shot as a form of 'pest control'. I don't know whether a license is required for this, or what the rules are.
Thankfully, we don't yet have rabies here :)
 
how :shock: killed by bird of prey, I didn't know.. well it is such a revolution to have banned hunting with packs, I wish they could do that in France too, although they are very limited to a few crews only.. Most of the hunters hunt with a gun... but once on TV I watched a document where some UK people were still hunting with a pack illegaly !
 
Martine said:
how :shock: killed by bird of prey, I didn't know.. well it is such a revolution to have banned hunting with packs, I wish they could do that in France too, although they are very limited to a few crews only.. Most of the hunters hunt with a gun... but once on TV I watched a document where some UK people were still hunting with a pack illegaly !
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It does still happen, i'm sure. They claim that they were unable to stop the dogs killing the foxes when they are just supposed to be flushing them out!
 
yes, and these people were saying to the camera, that it was their tradition for centuries so !! I think the authorities are not too severe about this...
 
Martine said:
yes, and these people were saying to the camera, that it was their tradition for centuries so !! I think the authorities are not too severe about this...
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The government is rather too busy at the moment trying to cover up their outrageous expenses to worry about a few foxes.....:roll:
 
Hi Michelle !!! I hate hunting.. it's true that hunting with a pack was the most natural way to catch a beast because that left a chance for her to escape, but it's so crual that I can't stand it.. Now there is a lot of poaching everywhere : they put wires to catch wild rabbits and so on...:( and what I hate evenmore is hand-reared game released only for the purpose of shooting for their so called "sport" ! :evil: it has no chance of escaping, it goes towards human who have fed him ! )
 
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