Posted on 10/31/2006 5:38:13 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
(Griswold-AP, Oct. 31, 2006 5:35 AM) _ Sightings of foxes have forced Griswold schools to keep children indoors.
School officials Monday banned all outside activity, including recess, gym classes, walks and after-school programs outdoors. The ban will stay in force until officials and experts can offer assurances on outdoor safety.
Community groups that use the campus also were alerted and athletic games are being scheduled at other schools.
Griswold schools are one campus adjacent to a wooded area.
A spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection says the agency will send trappers to the area to catch the foxes and set them free elsewhere, such as a state forest.
Spotting a fox is cause to stop for a minute and wonder at this animal's beauty, then watch it disappear silently into the woods.
Since when are fox considered dangerous?
Is there no one in academia with two brain cells to call their own.
When they're rabid. In which case, a properly handled shotgun or .22 is the right answer.
Sounds like the folks in that school district have been reading too many fairy tales. A typical fox isn't much bigger than your ordinary domestic cat.
The dingo ate my baby!!!!
Right about the time they banned tag, I imagine...
Total idiocy in that community...foxes routinely live in suburban areas and are well known to adopt to living in close proximity to humans. There are some in our neighborhood, they walk through my yard quite often. Most of the neighbors love them...with a few exceptions, who hired trappers to get rid of them...however, most of the foxes have refused to be trapped - they don't call them foxes for nothing!
The school officials probably support animal rights, along with all the other political correctness. But confront them with a real animal and they freak out.
No wait, when was the first fox attack on humans?
Liberals would not allow a gun within 10 miles of a school, so perhaps there is some dangers from being unarmed.
I'd be very concerned of any fox spotted in daylight. Certainly in the open.
Excellent chance it's sick, rabies primarily.
pssst...unusual squirrel activity around the oak tree...lockdown time.
They will, however, go after small dogs and cats.
GUNS & Connecticut. You must be confused.
CT-lack-of-common-sense PING!
Foxes have made a big comeback here in Tennessee as well. I see them here in my yard in suburban Nashville from time to time. Also turkeys are so numerous that you don't even slow down the car to look at them. Likewise deer, which are almost at nuisance density. I moved a snake off the road near my house with a stick the other day, and noticed in mid-procedure that it was a water-moccasin. Saw four otters in the Little Harpeth river in a well-used public park. Of course the coyotes have come in too, taking advantage of a niche that used to be occupied, I suppose, by bobcats and wolves. Basically, there's a lot of animals around today that were pretty rarely seen a generation ago. I have no idea why this is so.
This is nothing, we had a mountain lion eyeballing the local daycare center through the fence.
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