Fox attacks woman in Co Kildare

Grizzly 45

Guess this particular foxy loxy didnt get the latest ICABS CACS PR memo on how to be nice and cute and cuddly.:rolleyes::D

An animal with the mindset of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark

Jeremy Clarkson

http://www.kildarenow.com/news/updated-kildare-woman-71-needed-20-stitches-after-attack-by-fox-in-her-back-garden/68560

FISMA.

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

A Co Kildare woman viciously attacked by a fox in her back garden is appealing for the animal to be put down.

I volunteer.

Cass

Fixed it

road_high

Is there something fishy about this story (and forgive my naivety in asking)?
She was held helplessly on the ground for at least ten minutes? Surely a wild animal like that would be so terrified it'd be long gone...?

John T Carroll

feargale wrote: »

No, not unless the fox was wearing a balaclava.

Wasnt there a (Tipperary) Fox attacked by a (Galway) Rabbit a few years ago, the Fox had to get a hurley to defend himself, dont think he was bitten in the face though.

Rabo Karabekian

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

An animal with the mindset of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark



It's extremely rare for foxes to attack humans - unless they're threatened - which makes this incident highly unusual.

Hmmmm.

yubabill1

Rabo Karabekian wrote: »

Hmmmm.

Just try taking some food from your chihuahua and you'll see what that lady experienced.

Fox was taking one of her fowl, lady intervened and got mauled.

99.9% of the time a fox will retreat from humans, but if they're hungry enough they lose their fear.

Been on the receiving end once with kids around, they had cornered a fox and had to move them away while trying to avoid getting bitten - just.

Rabo Karabekian

yubabill1 wrote: »

Just try taking some food from your chihuahua and you'll see what that lady experienced.

Fox was taking one of her fowl, lady intervened and got mauled.

99.9% of the time a fox will retreat from humans, but if they're hungry enough they lose their fear.

Been on the receiving end once with kids around, they had cornered a fox and had to move them away while trying to avoid getting bitten - just.

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree. I just thought the quote from Jeremy Clarkson and the bit about how foxes nearly never attack humans was a bit odd to include in the same piece.

dodderangler

feargale wrote: »

No, not unless the fox was wearing a balaclava.

That's why I don't trust raccoons. Can never see their whole face. They've always got their eyes covered with that mask

feargale

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

It's extremely rare for foxes to attack humans - unless they're threatened - which makes this incident highly unusual.

Habitat restrictions and food scarcity are causing animals to behave with unprecedented desperation.
Another thread refers to an attack by a seal on a dog at a beach in the South-west, expressing fears that a child may be the next victim.
Seagulls have recently grabbed food from people in the middle of Dublin.
In India tigers and other fauna have been reported as getting bolder in approaching isolated villages and killing people.

Cass

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Capercaillie

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

YO! ANTIS!! Guess this particular foxy loxy didnt get the latest ICABS CACS PR memo on how to be nice and cute and cuddly.:rolleyes::D

An animal with the mindset of a psychopath and the teeth of a great white shark

Jeremy Clarkson

http://www.kildarenow.com/news/updated-kildare-woman-71-needed-20-stitches-after-attack-by-fox-in-her-back-garden/68560

By Louise McCarthy 17:15 Friday 15th of January 2016
A Co Kildare woman viciously attacked by a fox in her back garden is appealing for the animal to be put down.

Josie Hillis required a total of 20 surgical stitches to her face, arm and hand following the horrific incident.

It's extremely rare for foxes to attack humans - unless they're threatened - which makes this incident highly unusual.

Josie and her husband, Fine Gael Cllr Billy Hillis, have about 20 poultry at Dunshane near Brannockstown.

Stop the press, headline news. All wild animals are potentially dangerous. Put it in perspective, these events are extremely rare (even if the story is true). No doubt some people will advocate a major cull of foxes at expense to taxpayer! More likely to get attacked by a dog.

Grizzly 45

Well,if it is not true thats one Hell of a special effects make up done on those stitches and that she would go and get a accident and emergency dept in on the act as well. Although blowing at a foxes nose while its atin the face off you,is stretching things abit,or she is some zen master in calmness.
Be as it may,there have been cases of urban foxes attacking kids in the UK inthe last few years,so this is creditable,but some of it sounds off kilter too.
One thing tho,thank fuk we havent rabies in this country,otherwise she would be in worse agony from the rabies treatment than those bites.Even then, the foxes bite with all the carrion they eat can be dangerous enough.

Capercaillie

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Well,if it is not true thats one Hell of a special effects make up done on those stitches and that she would go and get a accident and emergency dept in on the act as well. Although blowing at a foxes nose while its atin the face off you,is stretching things abit,or she is some zen master in calmness.
Be as it may,there have been cases of urban foxes attacking kids in the UK inthe last few years,so this is creditable,but some of it sounds off kilter too.
One thing tho,thank fuk we havent rabies in this country,otherwise she would be in worse agony from the rabies treatment than those bites.Even then, the foxes bite with all the carrion they eat can be dangerous enough.

Why post it up when has nothing to do with hunting, might as well put up a post about killer woodcock?

Grizzly 45

Capercaillie wrote: »

Why post it up when has nothing to do with hunting, might as well put up a post about killer woodcock?

Err plenty to do with hunting..Simple fact is that b4 long the antis will be denying these things happen and the other media side and local politcans will be calling for "skilled marksmen" to eliminate this threat.So guess who is going to be caught in the cross fire ? Local hunters."Why arent they doing somthing about these foxes from one side" and " Brutal killers stalking an innocent animal."from the other side.

Capercaillie

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Err plenty to do with hunting..Simple fact is that b4 long the antis will be denying these things happen and the other media side and local politcans will be calling for "skilled marksmen" to eliminate this threat.So guess who is going to be caught in the cross fire ? Local hunters."Why arent they doing somthing about these foxes from one side" and " Brutal killers stalking an innocent animal."from the other side.

So you're saying foxes are a threat to public safety. If people get bitten they will blame hunters for not controlling them. That's some conclusion, but fair enough:)

Grizzly 45

Dumber things have been said in politics and social life.Only to be surpassed soon by some politican calling for the army or ERU to be sent off fox hunting in Kildare...Any day now...Watch this space.:pac:

LIFFY FISHING

Lads I am very familular with this area.
Apart from the anti's in the area the local gun club will not admit new members and have not for years, yes it's an aul lad attitude that you might shoot a bird they might have got for themselves.
Apart from November to Jan the club is a joke and apart from a few fox drives they do nothing to control the local fox population.
The committee not the local farmers do not allow rifles in the club and do not allow lamping, I have seen fields in that area with 2 or 3 foxes in them.....and you wonder why ???

Cass

Capercaillie wrote: »

No doubt some people will advocate a major cull of foxes at expense to taxpayer!

I'll finish that statement by saying it WON'T be hunters calling for it because they know better.

The Government will never respond to Joe Public's call for a fox cull, hunters don't need (and know better than to ask) not to mention the Government will never finance such a cull. People may look at fox hunters as some dirty aspect of society that they would rather see gone, yet we are a necessity. Not just for foxes. For deer, and other types of game. With no natural predators these species would have uncontrolled populations. Now numbers are a side issue, it's about population quality.

All that aside, as it's a different topic altogether, Fox attacks on humans are a rarity. The reason they are is population control by hunters. Without us the population would grow and urban foxes would be a bigger problem. The other side of that is people's attitude. They don't need to agree with what hunters do, but for God's sake stop treating a wild animal as a cuddly pet and stop feeding them.

With that said and with no objections i think this thread, not being directly related to actual hunting, has run its course.

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