Sadly I didn't have my camera with me this afternoon when walking Lord Nipton home up the lane towards our house. Only a neighbour's car had just pulled into their driveway and must have disturbed a very large dog fox who came barrelling down the lane towards us taking a head on collision course. Neither Nips nor the fox could quite believe what they were seeing and it was a classic double take moment before the fox screeched to a halt and bolted into the woods with only a couple of feet to go before an uncomfortably close encounter with a JRT.

Nips, who promptly set up a terrier howl of "Tally Ho!"!  thought I was most unreasonable in not letting him off the lead so he could hunt foxy down for hours and flippin' hours!

Hee hee - I have this scenario every day only it's with cats not foxes - Copper just hates them and they hate him, but it's quite funny when they have a nose to nose moment through a hedge :)

CG

Nips would have been arrested if he had taken chase ;)

We have a lady fox who lives across the road and I often see her if I am having an early start :)

That is where the girls has their snack of fox poo yesterday :rolleyes:

Bad mommy not letting Nips "play" with his friend :D

We have regular foxy visitors to the garden - often the dogs are fast asleep on the inside of the French doors and there's a little foxy face looking longing in at them :D :D :D   We have so many around here - they even follow us to the park!

We have many foxes round our area, but I'm quite scared of them to be honest.  They don't seem to be afraid of humans anymore as so many people feed them and I'm scared that they see my little bundle of fur and think 'dinner'!

Ah but I know exactly what this particular fox was expecting for dinner. And it certainly wasn't a gobby Jack Russell giving him "if you think you're hard enough" attitude. Instead, I suspect he'd been interrupted shortly before dining off next door's chickens!

I'm amazed by how many foxes there are in Edinburgh, I always see at least one every night and it's not unusual to see 6 or 7 in a night. I've never, ever seen a fox round East Calder and we're in the country?

They are plentiful around me too - I see them trotting along the street mid morning and afternoon.  If out with the dogs during the night or very early morning, it's not unusual to see around 20 or so in the course of an hour's walk.

I don't think anyone around here feeds them but we are so close to open countryside that they probably head over towards the houses and local school to hopefully get scraps from bins and scavenge on playground litter etc.  It's not the first time a fox or two has caused a stir during the school football team warm up - but then we've had deer breaking that up too :P

it's not unusual to see around 20 or so in the course of an hour's walk

Blimey! and I thought I saw a lot of them, and this is ion the daylight too? Scarey stuff - maybe foxes will eventually take over the world :)

>during the night or very early morning

Not during the day ;)  During daylight hours I probably regularly see around 4-7 - there's always at least one to be seen in the garden at different times of the day and at least one in the Asda car park LOL.   Over-run with the little critters :D

My vets say they're sick of the amount of clients who blame everything that ever goes wrong with their pets (mainly dogs) on the fox population!  They reckon the foxes have probably helped the local canines run off some extra steam (fat) :P

never seen a fox round here either - and were in the depths of the counryside AND I have a large assortment of chickens and ducks here - loads of birds of prey though and hundreds of hares

Yvonne

We have foxes, BoP including Red Kites and Hares The Hares are my favourite and boy can they shift They are normal lurking in the long grass and the girls disturb them . The look on the girl's faces is hilarious :D

We get a fair share of foxes in the garden but badgers is our problem, they have all but excavated the whole garden of a niegbour and she is fed up with falling down holes in her garden.
Today Merlot proudley carried a prickley 8 inch ball into the lounge and plonked it on the floor in front of me, a hedgehog. she was very pleased with her new playmate and found it hard to ubderstand why Mum rushed of for the gardening gloves and buried it back under a pile of leaves in the OUT OF BOUNDS part of the garden, and I live in the middle of town as well.

:-D :-D  I've had the same with foxes too, but also with deer, my girl once had her nose to the ground sniffing out rabbits and squirrels when a fully grown deer stepped right infront of us, it took my breath away stood a few feet from us in complete stillness only probably for a second, (which felt like a minute) then hoped back into the forest.  Did my girl even notice it............... nope!!  She can find a rabbit anywhere, but a walloping big deer:rolleyes: When her nose is to the ground, everything above is invisible. :-D

Travelling back from London one evening on the train I saw a vixen and two cubs sitting at the side of the track in Clapham Junction station totally unperturbed by all that was going on around them.

For those of you who only brush your dogs and give them annual baths, I envy you.  I don't know if it was fox poo or another animal's but when I got home tonight I was able to see what was causing the dreadful smell all around the neck and caked into the collar of my dog.  That's twice in 10 days :rolleyes:  I am just thankful she has such a short coat.

We had  a close encounter the other day too.....

I was sat at the PC when Roxy heard something at the front door and started barking quite uncessarily - she usually does this if she's half asleep and something on the telly makes a strange noise. Anyway, I heard this light knocking on the front door again, so put Roxy in the dining room and opened the front door, and no less than about 8 feet away was Mr Fox (we call him that as he's bold as you like, and we see him almost everyday) looking at me. A car had just pulled up and a neighbour got out and for a few seconds we just looked at him and he looked back at us, - I said I think he was knocking on the front door and laughed and she said he looked like he'd just run out from our house so he must have been right in our door way.

I was going to post something about it anyway, as my husband and I discussed whether or not we should feed him. He's getting increasingly brave, and wonder if he's searching for food. I love foxes and would love to feed him/be able to watch him in the garden, but what about my dog? Would I be causing trouble by encouraging him ,or would it be best to leave him to fend for himself?

Remember, they carry worms and mange, so you'd need to take great care your dog didn't getinfected. Honestly, it's safest for foxes as well if they're kept away from people, houses and roads. It's not a good sign when wild animals start to lose their natural fear of humans.

That's very sensible, thanks. I'll just admire him from afar...

Sadly I didn't have my camera to hand at the crucial moment either, but a couple of weeks back the local hunt ran a fox up a tree!  The fox sat for a while as if pondering what to do whilst the pack was going frantic at the base of the tree.  Charles Fox Esq then calmly trotted along a bough, plopped off the end on to the back of a hound at the periphery of the pack and scarpered into the distance leaving the entire pack going 'derrrr..........what was that?  What's just happened?'  :-)  Charles lived to see another day and I will attempt to preserve the street cred of the hounds in question by not naming the hunt!