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Hungry foxes start eating the nation's cats (Viking Kitties to the rescue???)
The London Telegraph ^ | 2/6/05 | Roya Nikkhah

Posted on 02/05/2005 8:36:18 PM PST by T-Bird45

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To: drt1
We have foxes here and I have a question for a knowledgeable FReeper - Can they be domesticated/made into a pet? Anyone know?

I had a pet fox when I was a child, and I can testify that they make the most delightful and intelligent pets in the world, combining all of the best features of a cat and a dog. They are brilliantly intelligent, funny, resourceful, amazing. However, you cannot really domesticate one who has grown to adulthood in the wild; you cannot housebreak them; you cannot trust them not to run away; and they are not legal as pets in most states so you can't get veterinary care for them.

41 posted on 02/05/2005 10:04:00 PM PST by Capriole (the Luddite hypocritically clicking away on her computer)
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To: Judith Anne

In a fox, the incubation period is between 10 days and 15 months.

A pretty big spread, no question. My understanding is that it is pretty much the same no matter the gender....but am not exactly sure.

There are places that actually breed fox-so it would be the safest bet.


42 posted on 02/05/2005 10:04:33 PM PST by fastattacksailor (Submariners do it deeper!)
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To: T-Bird45

Too bad they can't hunt those foxes


43 posted on 02/05/2005 10:12:21 PM PST by GeronL (2-7-72 is my birthday, in lieu of gifts, just send me cash)
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To: fastattacksailor

Thanks for posting the information.


44 posted on 02/05/2005 10:14:58 PM PST by Judith Anne (Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
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To: Fenris6

Funny pic, I will paste for my 11 year old daughter. Thanks!


45 posted on 02/05/2005 10:19:32 PM PST by dancusa (Appeasement, high taxes and regulation collects in the diapers of bed wetting liberals.)
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46 posted on 02/05/2005 10:19:52 PM PST by ijcr (2002)
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To: TASMANIANRED
We have a cat. Or, rather, as you point out, a cat selected our home to set up shop. It originally "belonged" to my brother-in-law who lives next door, but when our previous cat got caught flat-footed by a speeding SUV, Runt (my brother-in-law's #2 cat) immmedately moved into the vacuum, taking over our late cat's food dish and shelter (we're semi-rural and have always kept cats outdoors) as if they had always belonged to him.

Independent he may be, But Runt is a strangely sedate and friendly cat. He has this odd habit of rolling over onto his back if a member of the family merely acknowledges his existence. It is behavior that in a dog I would read as submissive. But I have never seen another cat do it--at least not as compulsively as Runt does it.

47 posted on 02/05/2005 10:20:57 PM PST by JCEccles
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To: T-Bird45

There are so many cats running wild here that all I can say is send them here!


48 posted on 02/05/2005 10:22:21 PM PST by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: JCEccles

I have had almost every pet known to man at some point in my life except a cat. I like them just fine, I've just never had one.


49 posted on 02/05/2005 10:33:08 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
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To: T-Bird45

Tally ho! Bring back the fox hunts!


50 posted on 02/05/2005 10:34:01 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: T-Bird45

Hmmm, foxes, well I guess the "Three S's" apply, "Shoot, Shovel & Shut-up" would work. Then again firearms are largely banned in the UK so that might not work unless you "roll your own" or use some other method.


51 posted on 02/05/2005 10:39:16 PM PST by Nowhere Man (We have enough youth, how about a Fountain of Smart?)
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Seriously? Bring back fox hunting. Morons.

52 posted on 02/05/2005 11:28:46 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe
Bring back fox hunting. Morons. Duhhh! LOL :)
53 posted on 02/05/2005 11:47:13 PM PST by rdl6989
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Bring back fox hunting. Morons. Duhhh! LOL :)

It's such a simple ( dare I say elegant? ) solution, you would think it would have occurred to someone...

54 posted on 02/05/2005 11:54:37 PM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: backhoe

it's too simple.


55 posted on 02/06/2005 12:20:19 AM PST by rdl6989
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To: T-Bird45

"There are no plans to start a cull of urban foxes"

Now there's a plan.
*ungh*
The fox are there probably not due to human poplation growth but due to fox population growth.
There's likely an overpopulation of them.


56 posted on 02/06/2005 6:19:56 AM PST by Darksheare ("Cast off your amazing human ruse and show them our mighty robot form!" - but I'm a ghost!)
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To: T-Bird45

Oh, I do so love over-educated blithering idiots like this guy:

'' Stephen Harris, a professor of environmental science at Bristol University, said, however, that increasing fox attacks on domestic cats was an "urban myth". ''

He'd probably tell me here in NY that there are no coyote here, and that the mountain lion seen slinking around my area is a myth.


57 posted on 02/06/2005 6:22:30 AM PST by Darksheare ("Cast off your amazing human ruse and show them our mighty robot form!" - but I'm a ghost!)
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To: T-Bird45
A job for the Viking Kitties, possibly??

Bring on the foxes!

58 posted on 02/06/2005 6:24:53 AM PST by freepatriot32 (Jacques Chirac and Kofi Annan, a pantomime horse in which both men are playing the rear end. M.Steyn)
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To: T-Bird45

A friend has a leg injury that keeps him awake a lot. To pass the time he watches the activity of foxes feeding under his bird feeders in a apple tree in his front yard late at night. Thursday night he had four Foxes eating. He lives about a mile east of Eureka in a lightly developed area. I have seen one or two around our home here in town. Last summer a Mountain Lion was seen about 300 yards across the gulch from us so we no longer have as many stray cats killing Quail and song birds here in this area.


59 posted on 02/06/2005 6:44:27 AM PST by tubebender (Can someone remind me what my Near Years resolutions were...)
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To: dljordan

Heck, here in Michigan we have coyote problems.

The place i just moved out of was sheep country, and the coyotes were so bold...

they'd come right up to the house...


60 posted on 02/06/2005 7:06:11 AM PST by tiamat (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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