Dublin's city foxes snub the Northside

Roger_007

This is headline from today's Sunday Times. Are these foxes a bit uppity and do the bark with a 'dort' accent: waff waff.

bonerjams03

Foxes are class

Giblet

Loads of them outside of my house. I'm pretty well off though.

Celly Smunt

I don't blame them.

smash

Sure the pigeons fly upside down over there cos they wouldn't even sh!t on the place. :pac:

UrbanSea

They'd be hassled for change every two minutes over there

ITS_A_BADGER

roight

TheLastMohican

And get barred from any uptown/southside club that has decent chics

hames

Maybe explained by proximity to Dublin mountains and potentially more green spaces in the south.

And maybe those in the North might gravitate toward the Phoenix park, where it would be difficult to count them.

Or there might be a good reason why their biggest predator - the automobile - is more likely to take them out, up there.

Be interesting to know what exactly the reason is.

chughes

The rock belonging to the Fox is on the southside so that might explain it.

Where To

Foxes are the scumbags of the animal kingdom.

kfallon

Does that mean me ould butty from the Talbot/Buckingham St area has moved and I won't see him anymore

Look after him Van Morrison, he's a good 'un

Nodin

hames wrote: »

Maybe explained by proximity to Dublin mountains and potentially more green spaces in the south.

And maybe those in the North might gravitate toward the Phoenix park, where it would be difficult to count them.

Or there might be a good reason why their biggest predator - the automobile - is more likely to take them out, up there.

Be interesting to know what exactly the reason is.

There are rarely foxes seen on the northside. The batter-burger. Think about it.

Roger_007

hames wrote: »

Maybe explained by proximity to Dublin mountains and potentially more green spaces in the south.

And maybe those in the North might gravitate toward the Phoenix park, where it would be difficult to count them.

Or there might be a good reason why their biggest predator - the automobile - is more likely to take them out, up there.

Be interesting to know what exactly the reason is.

Could be the leftovers on the southside are tastier and more
plentiful.

hames

Where To wrote: »

Foxes are the scumbags of the animal kingdom.

Not at all. That'd be humans.

mikemac1

Northside is clean and tidy, no rubbish left out on the streets

Slim pickings for Mr Fox

Roger_007

Nodin wrote: »

There are rarely foxes seen on the northside. The batter-burger. Think about it.

Are there any tests done for vulpine DNA?

Nodin

Roger_007 wrote: »

Are there any tests done for vulpine DNA?

~I was watching the ch4 news during the week, and apparently they have to test for something as opposed to running a test and seeing whats there, so unless they're looking - no.

Zillah

mikemac1 wrote: »

Northside is clean and tidy, no rubbish left out on the streets

Slim pickings for Mr Fox

Surely it's because the locals snatch up anything left lying around before the foxes have the chance?

foxinsox

Roight, tots agree!

admiralofthefleet

Zillah wrote: »

Surely it's because the locals snatch up anything left lying around before the foxes have the chance?

No thats dolphins barn, on the southside

cloud493

Cos we're so cool on the northside, we don't want no foxes :cool:

Archeron

Bollox. I used to live in one of the northsidiest places on the northside and we had foxes all over the place. Until wheelie bins came along and ruined my weekly nature watch.

RADIUS

Used to see them all the time in East wall. Also see them a lot around Raheny/Clontarf at night.

You would have to get up very early in the morning to catch them. VERY early in the morning....

Gummy Panda

I wish we had raccoons on the northside.

Nodin

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I wish we had raccoons on the northside.

I hear theres Beaver over there though....

stevenmu

RADIUS wrote: »

Used to see them all the time in East wall. Also see them a lot around Raheny/Clontarf at night.

You would have to get up very early in the morning to catch them. VERY early in the morning....

Yeah, but most north-siders wouldn't be up until the dole office opens.

RADIUS

stevenmu wrote: »

Yeah, but most north-siders wouldn't be up until the dole office opens.

Tallaght **cough** Clondalkin *** Cough cough

mikemac1

They've ended up the same place as the Jack Russell Terriers

Your local Chinese takeaway

Scruffles

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I wish we had raccoons on the northside.

providing do not give out to them with a shortened name like americans do,announcing 'wait till those bloody coons call round again,theyll get a bullet up their ass' in earshot of the community or guards wont go down well.

dan1895

Plenty of foxes in the phibsboro/glasnevin area.

Slydice

There's definitely foxes in the Phoenix Park and in the areas around it.

Truncheon Rouge

Roger_007 wrote: »

...and do the bark with a 'dort' accent: waff waff.

Not so far.....fetched as one might think.

Theres an episode of QI, possibly the one titled 'Dogs' where Stephen fry tells us that dogs DO in fact have accents, with Liverpudlian dogs in particular having a higher tone of bark than their southern four legged compatriots. So one can indeed conclude that accents do exist within the animal kingdom. Fascinating stuff.

...I wrote this in Stephen frys voice. Good evening.

RADIUS

Truncheon Rouge wrote: »

Not so far.....fetched as one might think.

Theres an episode of QI, possibly the one titled 'Dogs' where Stephen fry tells us that dogs DO in fact have accents, with Liverpudlian dogs in particular having a higher tone of bark than their southern four legged compatriots. So one can indeed conclude that accents do exist within the animal kingdom. Fascinating stuff.

...I wrote this in Stephen frys voice. Good evening.

Funny thing is I read it it Stephen Frys voice too. Good day to you sir.

round tower huntsman

its just that southside foxes are easier spotted with their fake tan and ugg boots!
i heard a southside fox calling in the middle of night recently "OMG" it screached in the still of the night.

ringadingding

I was driving through Artane early one morning, by a bit of green there were a mumma fox and 3 cubs just milling around.
I just parked and sat there watching them for a good 20 mins.

I love foxes

harry Bailey esq

tolka valley in finglas has lots of foxes,lots of rabbits for them to feed on.glasnevin cemetery has plenty too. lovely to watch the cubs messing about

Ruudi_Mentari

RADIUS wrote: »

Tallaght **cough** Clondalkin *** Cough cough

also, I have seen 2 foxes entering the lanes late at night in my district of Crimlin/Crimnagh.

a bit surreal seeing these long, lithe things stop in the middle of the road and do a double take emselves then casually taking to the lane .. indeed both occasions were like a double take emselves, waaay similar. Same fox I wonder

Ruudi_Mentari

did they Come_From_Da_Hills?

Nothng like that out the northside is just a plain of rows of council houses, far as the horizon.

Arpa

Ruudi_Mentari wrote: »

also, I have seen 2 foxes entering the lanes late at night in my district of Crimlin/Crimnagh.

a bit surreal seeing these long, lithe things stop in the middle of the road and do a double take emselves then casually taking to the lane .. indeed both occasions were like a double take emselves, waaay similar. Same fox I wonder

Mate...please use English.

Ruudi_Mentari

Arpa wrote: »

Mate...please use English.

Not a hope bud.

JonEBGud

Next year my dog will bite.

So keep out!

MadsL

Can't get a decent pint of Old Speckled Hen on the northside, obviously.

dodderangler

RADIUS wrote: »

Tallaght **cough** Clondalkin *** Cough cough

A55hole **cough**

Lone Stone

I use to see one living along the dart line between harmonstown and raheny dart station, fox's are cool fo sho !

dodderangler

They are not cool
They are wild animals that need to be culled in certain areas
Every night coming home from work I see at least 3 and one is always on my road , big lad aswell
And he'd be cute about things he does as he's lived around humans all his life so he'd be the type to attack a child
Always worry that because they can scale over walls and hop into gardens they'd take me ferrets or other pets

AndyTheDude

I see them almost every night. Lovely beasts they are. It's quite a sad sight though, seeing them running across the M1... poor little bastards with nowhere to hide, exposed to being hit by speeding cars. No forests for them to hide in around here as all the trees have been chopped off ages ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iy2xOTIyHY

Nodin

dodderangler wrote: »

They are not cool
They are wild animals that need to be culled in certain areas
Every night coming home from work I see at least 3 and one is always on my road , big lad aswell
And he'd be cute about things he does as he's lived around humans all his life so he'd be the type to attack a child
Always worry that because they can scale over walls and hop into gardens they'd take me ferrets or other pets

They'll kill us Alll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Chuck Stone

dodderangler wrote: »

They are not cool

Much cooler than you.

No doubt.

1ZRed

dodderangler wrote: »

They are not cool
They are wild animals that need to be culled in certain areas
Every night coming home from work I see at least 3 and one is always on my road , big lad aswell
And he'd be cute about things he does as he's lived around humans all his life so he'd be the type to attack a child
Always worry that because they can scale over walls and hop into gardens they'd take me ferrets or other pets

You heard one story of a fox attacking a baby and now all foxes are all automatically child maulers? Get a grip.

Every fox I've encountered has run petrified from me. They've even run from my cats over the years.

They are a native species in decline. They definetly do not need to be culled in any areas.

I don't know about you, but I'm sick of all our best animal species having such low numbers with nobody giving a feck about the situation, but seeing them as a nuisance incase they get at our pets or your ferrets. They rarely ever do, it's just over exaggerating.

And funnily enough, the ferret is single handedly one of the worst things to go wild here. One of them getting loose could do a hell of a lot more damage than any fox could.

Chuck Stone

1ZRed wrote: »

You heard one story of a fox attacking a baby and now all foxes are all automatically child maulers? Get a grip.

Don't get too bothered about someone with such moronic views as this..

dodderangler wrote: »

I don't trust cats
Evil sly deceitful ba5tards and as such if a cat owner trusts his cat then they too are evil sly deceitful ba5tards