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Someone got themselves a new pet foxy

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  • #2
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055922277

    is it not illegal to keep a wild animal as a pet?
    Do Gooder or not?;)


  • #3
    Spannerman7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭Spannerman7


    The poor thing won't have a clue how to hunt when released/kicked out after killing the cats


  • #4
    Dusty87
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    Think it is. And is there something about relaasing a wild unprotected animal to a new area?? Maybe thats the UK.
    Ah her new pet, bless:D
    Hope it dosnt take one of her 5 cats, or then again........


  • #5
    Dusty87
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    Spannerman7 wrote: »
    The poor thing won't have a clue how to hunt when released/kicked out after killing the cats

    True, seen it on a wildlife programme. They had to keep expanding there pen, feeding them dead chicks and on and on until they gave them live ones, all the time keeping away as much as possible so the foxes would become afraid of humans. Very long process to make them able for the wild again


  • #6
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    True, seen it on a wildlife programme. They had to keep expanding there pen, feeding them dead chicks and on and on until they gave them live ones, all the time keeping away as much as possible so the foxes would become afraid of humans. Very long process to make them able for the wild again

    Yer wan needs her head examined thinking it will live merrily in her back garden, foxes roam huge terriorities, almost as much as me lol

    wait until it bites her or someone some day, and man do they bite.
    Or she finds it eating her cats. I can't cats, especially in the house which she looks like the type that would.
    We used to let the dog in by the fire after his dinner for a lay down, after he got hot he would look to go out, around 10~ every night.
    Then he would stand to be chained to the kennel.
    Some craic leaving a fox out at night, another fox would come to fight


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  • #7
    clivej
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    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055847511&highlight=thomastown
    3e9b52a9.jpg


  • #8
    Tackleberrywho
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    Yee Kilkenny boys lol


  • #9
    Rovi
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    People have been keeping pet foxes for centuries, so it's not outside the bounds of possibility that this one could be successfully kept too.
    I know of a few in this area over my lifetime (and before), and I'm sure most of us would know of similar instances; all of them kept by country people, many of them active fox hunters.

    Legalities aside, the fox cub in that thread sounds like it's becoming accustomed to people as it is, so I suspect the chances of it being properly re-introduced to the wild are getting slimmer by the day. It might be better in the long run to keep it as a semi-exotic pet, it's not as if they're endangered after all, and it'll almost certainly have a longer and healthier life in the care of its humans.


  • #10
    Feargal as Luimneach
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    is it not illegal to keep a wild animal as a pet?
    Do Gooder or not?;)
    Yes the fox cub was better off in the barrel where it was being kept...


  • #11
    Dusty87
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    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    Yes the fox cub was better off in the barrel where it was being kept...

    Ya dont answer his question though feargal


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  • #12
    [Deleted User]
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    It's illegal to keep a wild animal as a pet.
    No exception.
    How did they come across the barrel?


  • #13
    patakadarragh
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    snooping around i suspect


  • #14
    Feargal as Luimneach
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    Dusty87 wrote: »
    Ya dont answer his question though feargal
    She doesn't intend to keep it as a pet. Do you think the fox was better left in the barrel?


  • #15
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    She doesn't intend to keep it as a pet. Do you think the fox was better left in the barrel?

    Bring a wild animal into a domestic situation is against its nature, she was going to Worm the dog. All wild animals have worms. If she got rid of the worms it may have some strange affect on the fox. mankind has interfered with nature too much in the past.

    Nature is cruel.In the wild young foxes mortality rates are high.
    It is survival of the fittest, If mankind interjects it is changing the balance, I know the fox was trapped, but there is the fact that it was caught which means it was not clever enough to get away.

    Now that the fox is in captivity it can never be released without being put at risk due to human contact it will have lost its fear of humans which is a bad thing for a fox.

    I was only watching a program on NG on Sky the other night about a guy who was going to be arrested for feeding wild bears


  • #16
    Dusty87
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    Feargal as Luimneach wrote: »
    She doesn't intend to keep it as a pet. Do you think the fox was better left in the barrel?

    I never said she did intend to keep it as a pet though feargal did i??
    To answer your question no i dont think any wild animal should be confined to a space, which is why i gave her the advice to bring it to someone who deals in that sort of thing.


  • #17
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    Dusty87 wrote: »
    I never said she did intend to keep it as a pet though feargal did i??
    To answer your question no i dont think any wild animal should be confined to a space, which is why i gave her the advice to bring it to someone who deals in that sort of thing.

    I have a friend , surname Hornady. he is very good with Foxes


  • #18
    clivej
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    ................

    I was only watching a program on NG on Sky the other night about a guy who was going to be arrested for feeding wild bears

    Must be in Tipperary so.



    If the person has open fields to thier garden then I think that feeding the fox but allowing it to come and go would soon get it back into the wild.


  • #19
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    clivej wrote: »
    Must be in Tipperary so.



    If the person has open fields to thier garden then I think that feeding the fox but allowing it to come and go would soon get it back into the wild.

    He was in Alaska, the Fish & Game thought Bears could attack humans as a result of his feeding of Grislies

    But feeding without contacting the fox might help. Hand feeding and the fox is then a semi-pet like in a zoo


  • #20
    cbrjohnthou
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    clivej wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055847511&highlight=thomastown
    3e9b52a9.jpg

    see lads this is how accidents happen, hope she don't go around like that after dark :D:D:D.


  • #21
    jwshooter
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    Tackleberrywho wrote: »
    Bring a wild animal into a domestic situation is against its nature, she was going to Worm the dog. All wild animals have worms. If she got rid of the worms it may have some strange affect on the fox. mankind has interfered with nature too much in the past.

    Nature is cruel.In the wild young foxes mortality rates are high.
    It is survival of the fittest, If mankind interjects it is changing the balance, I know the fox was trapped, but there is the fact that it was caught which means it was not clever enough to get away.

    Now that the fox is in captivity it can never be released without being put at risk due to human contact it will have lost its fear of humans which is a bad thing for a fox.

    I was only watching a program on NG on Sky the other night about a guy who was going to be arrested for feeding wild bears


    thats a great comparison mature bears against a 8 week old fox cub


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  • #22
    Tackleberrywho
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,590 ✭✭✭Tackleberrywho


    jwshooter wrote: »
    thats a great comparison mature bears against a 8 week old fox cub

    The comparison is, foxes and bears need to be afraid of humans, as humans shoot both bears and foxes.

    Feeding either animal evokes trust in Humans that wild animals should not have.
    The animals sense of fear keeps them alive.


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