What do you do with your foxes.

GaryKE.

Only asking as was out walking the dog over the Curragh and noticed a dead fox, obvious that it was shot and just left on a well used walking path.

I moved it under a fur tree just to get it out of the way, but just curious what methods people use to dispose of the foxes crows and other vermin species.

JP22

If it was shot then someone is breaking the law. The Curragh Plains are owned by the State, some parts controlled by HRI/Racecourse, the majority of it is controlled by the Military so NO shooting/hunting is allowed.

GaryKE.

Do farmers not have the right to shoot them and dogs on the plains if they are worrying the sheep.

tonysopprano

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307185#Comment_122307185

Or maybe he was shot miles away and just died there, that is why he was lying near a public area?

JP22

NO, farmers have that right on their own private lands/farms but not on the Curragh Plains.

Having served 30+ years in DF, years ago I looked for permission to hunt the Curragh Plains. A big no go, as its state owned lands with a Military Camp in the middle of it, NO shooting/hunting allowed whatsoever.

If farmers who rent the Plains from the Department for sheep have issues with dogs they contact the Military Police/Curragh Range Management and the Council Dog Warden.

Likewise, driving vehicles incl quads/scramblers on the Plains is illegal.

Yes, the fox could have been shot miles away.

sniperman

most hunters id say just leave the vermin in a ditch and let nature take its course,cant see many bringing home the vermin

J.R.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122319657#Comment_122319657

Many in a gun club would remove the tail for a vermin count and then discard the carcass in a ditch.

BSA International

On a ditch away from any water source.

JP22

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122323788#Comment_122323788

+1.

Also, other wildlife will feed off it, end of day it's not going to waste.

Grizzly 45

Shoot,skin and tan, but only in Winter when the fur is at its best and thickest.Store in a cool dark and dry location. Collect enough of them to get them up to Ireland's only remaining furrier in Dublin, and get a very nice and warm throw blanket made for the bed or couch, that costs thousands of euros to buy if you are supplying the raw materials,it can knock sometimes half the price off.BUT you will need 50-plus pelts to do this.

Doing this you are. Harvesting wildlife at its optimum prime condition, and keeping the skill alive of tanning, it's not too difficult once you do it a few times, keeping a traditional and endangered business going, pride in getting something made from the efforts that custom made to you from your effort. How bad.

Exp271

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122498152#Comment_122498152

Who is the furrier in Dublin? Does he do deer hides?

Grizzly 45

Barnados furrriers. Easily found by all the anti fur crowd hanging around it on a Saturday. No they don't do deer hides.

John_Rambo

I've mentioned this before, if you can get your hides tanned those various viking and historical re-enactment folks would pay for them. They were in my local park a while ago and take the whole thing very seriously. I'd say they're hired by TV and film makers for the various ones shot in Ireland.

thelurcher

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122307604#Comment_122307604

Do the Curragh Foot Beagles hunt the race course and the land around it? I thought they have the run of the place.
I was driving with a huntsman of another pack of beagles and we passed the bridge over the M7 - he said they crossed that the day they hunted it.