I grew up in the countryside (Google Maps for “Martin Hussingtree”) and we had loads of chickens, geese, ducks etc. And yes, foxes there too. Its a simple premise that foxes are a) smart, b) relentless, c) given half a chance will desimate a chicken coop. So don’t give them a chance. It’s easy to prevent foxes from getting in at your livestock, just build the cages with foxes in mind. Same as you can stop them getting into your rubbish bins.

The problem is people. They’re lazy. Foxes have a benefit to your environment (they keep down the rodent pest population) but if you make it easy for them to get food from your rubbish bins, then they will go for the easy option. Most people don’t realise that they themselves are at fault, not the foxes.

Support your local fox!

One of our foxes has a thin bald tail, but the rest of him looks fine… but the sound of it he could be suffering from Sarcoptic Mange, so that info about the cure will be useful.

I know some people believe foxes to be a pest or even vermin. Foxes have as much right to live here as us. As I said in the ‘Hall of Shame’ on my old web site on the subject of fox hunting…

“There’s right and wrong ways of dealing with things… if a farmer is having a problem with foxes swiping and devouring his livestock, there are humane ways of dealing with the ginger mutts. What we don’t need is a bunch of chinless, in-bred, upper-class half-wits on horse-back pretending to be participating in a sport. Thumbs-up to hunt saboteurs, that’s what I say.”

When they banned hunting, I saw some woman on t.v. say “this is the worst day of my life”. Get a grip. Ask a fox about the worst day of his life and he’d say it was the day he was chased and torn to pieces by a pack of bloody-thirsty dogs.

If you go to Google Maps for the UK, do a search on ‘Chaucer Grove, Camberley’ you can see the amount of tree coverage between Chaucer Grove and Heath Rise. And then South East is Tekels Park, again, open land for wildlife.

Since we started treatmnent for our foxes, their tails have alomst grown back in. From the thin sticks they used to have, they are now getting quite fluffy. Here’s to the Foxes!

(Oh and as an added side benefit, the rats that used to infest our dustbins area have all vanished. I much prefer foxes over rats any day of the week)