Fox as pet

sincere113

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3417830/Animal-lover-keeps-fox-as-a-pet.html

djflawless

A fella that used to live in my estate found an injured fox 1 day he was out ferreting.kept it for a month and a bit before getting reported by 2 animal activists in the estate.rspca ended up coming for the fox and from what i was told, the bugger was put down because he couldnt be rehabilitated for the wild

John_Rambo

Look at his carpets, his tie, his xmas "backdrop". Having a fox as a pet is the most normal thing about this guy.

buckshotbrolan

Am I the only one who finds the last picture disturbing? Where has his right hand gone?:eek:

Spunk84

Miss snooks looks amazing pretty much a wild dog so why not? People keep snakes, Lizards and wild mammals so why not a fox? Wouldn't be my choice, but if it escapes then it fair game;)

Arcto

djflawless wrote: »

A fella that used to live in my estate found an injured fox 1 day he was out ferreting.kept it for a month and a bit before getting reported by 2 animal activists in the estate.rspca ended up coming for the fox and from what i was told, the bugger was put down because he couldnt be rehabilitated for the wild

I hope the "activists" found out. They killed the fox they tried to "save" from a life of regular meals and affection. Forgive me for LOL'ing.

djflawless

Arcto wrote: »

I hope the "activists" found out. They killed the fox they tried to "save" from a life of regular meals and affection. Forgive me for LOL'ing.

i hope they found out.wouldn't bother asking them because their the sort that thinks me bringing the dog out the fields hunting as cruelty.just the same as nearly every other animal activist.they "know" it all already and dont need the info from someone who spends their lives out with wildlife

John_Rambo

Two activists in an estate in Laoise! The place must be overrun with them! There was a fella in my estate in Dublin with a pet Kestrel and no one gave too fooks, great fun when he took it out on the road though.

I'm with Spunk84 on this one, if it floats his boat, so be it. I'd say his gaff stinks though.

(Can't believe I went all Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen about the guys carpet on a hunting forum)

djflawless

Yea their 2 sisters who like to adopt stray or unwanted cats.enough said

ormondprop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn9M421YKdI

i say his house stinks, but what harm, if both him and the fox are happy let them off, and by the size of that fox i say he is well happy with himself, he's as fat as a fool

declan1980

i wonder if you had a pet vixen, and you brought it out when it was in season would its scent draw in dog foxes so you could shoot them?

hrcbob

There is a guy in thomastown co. kilkenny who can be seen regularly out walking his pet fox around the street on a leash.. He has been in the papers a few times and might even have two of them..

Spunk84

declan1980 wrote: »

i wonder if you had a pet vixen, and you brought it out when it was in season would its scent draw in dog foxes so you could shoot them?

:D:D:D:D +1

garv123

declan1980 wrote: »

i wonder if you had a pet vixen, and you brought it out when it was in season would its scent draw in dog foxes so you could shoot them?

tie her up in the middle of a field with enough rope to move around and sit and wait.
mr charlie comes along for a quicky and boom.
will teach all the other foxies to practice safe sex:D:D

terminator2

declan1980 wrote: »

i wonder if you had a pet vixen, and you brought it out when it was in season would its scent draw in dog foxes so you could shoot them?

dont need the vixen ,just bring that auld boy with ya ide say he stinks to high heaven ;)

Clare Bear

My Dad has a fox as a pet. Well kind of. He found it injured a couple of years ago as a cub and looked after it. Then he kept trying to bring it back to where he found him, hoping he'd go off and find a fox friend or partner somewhere but he kept coming back to the house. Now the fox doesn't live with him or anything but he sits and watches him milk the cows everyday and always gets a little treat afterwards like a dog treat or some chicken or something and then goes off for the day, coming back again in the evening to do the same thing. He's called him nuisance He hangs around my brother a bit too but doesn't seem to like the women in our family. He'll let me rub him but that's about it.

And all of this from the man that used to hunt regularly, he's gone soft in his old age

Mr. Presentable

It's still a wild animal though. It'd revert to type pretty sharpish if its tail got tugged by a child, or he stepped on its paw.

A ginger timebomb, I'd say.

Clare Bear

Mr. Presentable wrote: »

It's still a wild animal though. It'd revert to type pretty sharpish if its tail got tugged by a child, or he stepped on its paw.

A ginger timebomb, I'd say.

Very true. We'd never allow him near children though for that reason and he can be snappy with the dogs. He's just part of the scenery at this stage. He still does his own thing, he just likes his treats. We have a lot of hunters in our area so if he gets shot we'll get over it but I must admit it's nice to have him around (Sorry fox hunters )

bunny shooter

Clare Bear wrote: »

........... We have a lot of hunters in our area so if he gets shot we'll get over it but I must admit it's nice to have him around (Sorry fox hunters )

Common sense, nice to see it

I only shoot foxes that are causing grief to landowners etc eg raiding the chicken coup or lambing sheds etc. so this lad would be safe enough

My wife's uncle had a fox that he reared from a cub and treated in the same way years ago. He too was a hunter.

Hunters, far from what the "anti's" think, are not heartless, cruel killers.

As has been shown hunters have more knowledge of how to treat & understand wild animals than a lot of the do gooders ever will.

This fox, as the wife's uncles was, is/was still a wild animal and should alwyas be treated as such.

Keeping it in a domestic situation is, to me, wrong.

ssl

Any ideas on what logo is on his fleece? "Association ____ __ C____ ____ "?