Deer ‘eating farmers out of house and home’

J.R.

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/we-are-completely-overrun-with-deer-td/

J.R.

https://thatsfarming.com/farming-news/deer-dail-news/

kunekunesika

Maybe the fox didn't get the sheep 🐏🐏

You gotta watch out for them trophy hunters!!!

XsApollo

One thing I have noticed is there are foxes everywhere.

I live in a town and as soon as dark they are out.

in the gardens around here , they don’t even run now when they see a car.

i actually saw a couple and kid about 10 metres from one and the fox was just standing there facing them.

i always remember any noise or anything and they bolt.

JP22

Large numbers of foxes in cities/towns today appears to be the norm, same goes for certain song/garden birds, rooks/crows, magpies. I watched some wildlife docs on tv and the larger cities in UK have quiet large populations of deer, foxes, badgers and of course squirrels. Its estimated that 10K foxes live in/around London. Reds squirrels are fine but we should seriously reduce the number of greys.

It’s all the free food, huge amounts of food available mainly from late night revellers (discarded kebabs, burgers, half eaten sambos, chips, etc) plus don’t forget lots of city/town folk put grub out specifically for them. Some German cities have very large numbers of deer and wild boar in their parks and on the streets at night.

Personally I like to see foxes about town, don’t get me wrong, ex hunter and have shot many in the past around pheasant pens and game grounds. I think it’s neat that they have wised up to free grub on the streets. Won’t be long until they are ordering it by Uber, survival is the name of the game.

Birdnuts

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118345041#Comment_118345041

Rome has a few small wolf packs living in and around it - that will sort out the wild boar,deer and fox problems😁😉

Dr Turk Turkelton

When I lived in New York I used see squirrels everyday in the neighbourhood.

A lot of trees in Queens though. I posted this pic back in the wildlife forum years ago.

Del2005

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118343223#Comment_118343223

Feck all foxes where my parents are from in Mayo, rabbits were everywhere but the virus seems to have killed most of them now.

archer22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058223409/deer-eating-farmers-out-of-house-and-home

We are completely overrun with village idiot TD's.... would have been a far more accurate headline 🙄

Feisar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118349005#Comment_118349005

Weren't one of the Healy-Ray's looking for the army in do deal with hogweed?

NSAman

ok I am not currently in Ireland, but I know first hand the damage deer can do when they jump in front of a car … they are skittish.. at 30 mph destroyed a car (new) here 20k worth of damage.

i love waking up and seeing them each morning they are beautiful animals. But the destruction and deaths they cause here, means that they have to be culled. They breed incredibly fast. They carry Lyme disease. They eat gardens, crops etc.

i cannot say they are a massive problem in Ireland as I have never seen one in the wild in Ireland.

foxes though? Everywhere.., even in the underground parking space in Dublin.

Grizzly 45

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118348875#Comment_118348875

Yeahhhhh...https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/protected-wolves-menace-farms-on-edge-of-rome-z76w3pk56