Dead fox on N11

Ellie2008 · 28-12-2015 9:53pm #1

Was anyone travelling northbound on the n11 around Carrickmines yesterday just before lunch? Did you see a dead fox in the slow lane, drove over it as thought it was road kill, now worried it was still alive

RayM · 28-12-2015 9:59pm

I highly doubt it would still have been alive. They're more likely to be on the road late at night, so it was probably long dead by the time you drove over it.

28-12-2015 10:04pm

Ach, life can be nasty brutal and short. Have hit a couple of foxes and badgers in my time, plus one big collision with a deer that left my car spinning around on itself at about 60mph. Will always get out to make sure they're dead though, don't like the thought of an animal limping off to die.

Atlantic Dawn · 28-12-2015 10:05pm

Slow lane?

fleet_admiral · 28-12-2015 10:07pm

He was alive and well in the Tesco Terenure carpark half an hour ago

_Kaiser_ · 28-12-2015 10:11pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Ach, life can be nasty brutal and short. Have hit a couple of foxes and badgers in my time, plus one big collision with a deer that left my car spinning around on itself at about 60mph. Will always get out to make sure they're dead though, don't like the thought of an animal limping off to die.

I'd agree, but what if it wasn't dead? Would it be like this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7Yo0tWDgk

Anesthetize · 28-12-2015 10:13pm

* MISSING - PET FOX *

Hi guys. My pet fox went missing in the Carrickmines area this morning. He looks like a fox and responds to the name Sparky. Just want to know if anyone has seen him?

Regards,
Anesthetize

Sam Kade · 28-12-2015 10:17pm

Ellie2008 wrote: »

Was anyone travelling northbound on the n11 around Carrickmines yesterday just before lunch? Did you see a dead fox in the slow lane, drove over it as thought it was road kill, now worried it was still alive

murderer :mad:

28-12-2015 10:18pm

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I'd agree, but what if it wasn't dead? Would it be like this....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX7Yo0tWDgk

Actually the deer was very much alive, despite nearly tearing my car apart. Rang the Park Rangers straight away, they didn't so much send out a SWAT team as laugh and say "if it lives it lives". And frankly they were right. Have phoned them a couple of times, another time I found a fawn wrapped in fencing in the National Park and managed to free it but it hobbled away. Again they gave me the "if it's meant to live, it will" and again could understand their idea that nature will sort it out, they're not providing an animal hospital service.

Fr_Dougal · 28-12-2015 10:25pm

RIP little fox.

I hope your family are ok, never nice to lose a loved one during Xmas.

MilesMorales1 · 28-12-2015 10:27pm

I see dead animals all the time on the road to swords, its gross. Chances are it was dead, poor thing.

traprunner · 28-12-2015 10:30pm

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

I see dead animals all the time on the road to swords, its gross. Chances are it was dead, poor thing.

They should have some consideration and avoid grossing people out by scraping their own carcass off the road.

MilesMorales1 · 28-12-2015 10:31pm

traprunner wrote: »

They should have some consideration and avoid grossing people out by scraping their own carcass off the road.

Or, people just shouldn't run over animals, or at least try not to more, was my point.

traprunner · 28-12-2015 10:34pm

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Or, people just shouldn't run over animals, or at least try not to more, was my point.

Ah yes. Drivers go out to deliberately kill animals.

punisher5112 · 28-12-2015 10:34pm

Op at least it wasn't a deer.

Came across one that was split in half and had to have being 1st to come across it on the bend at glen of the downs very early a few weeks ago.

I was extremely lucky I wasn't in my usual car and had a higher clearance as it would have destroyed my car.

Must have been a truck that hit it but dumb tool kept going.

Extremely dangerous been on a bend pitch black darkness.

Fluffy Cat 88 · 28-12-2015 10:56pm

Badgers are awful though! I absolutely made sh1te of a fiesta years ago when I hit one. Frightened the beyjasiz out of me.

Dead animals are common enough on back/rural roads. They can just run out of a ditch, under the car.

I've hit tens, avoided hundreds over the years.