Barney Attacked A Fox

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I had quite a frightening experience down in leafy Epsom this afternoon. I took my 8 month old Jack Russell with me as I am clearing a house and he was happily playing in the garden with my boyfriend when I heard suddenly heard alot of shouting. My boyfriend rushed in to say that Barney had just attacked a fox. :blink: Now this garden in in a very quiet cul de sac and has a largish garden but I must admit I thought he must have been mistaken. It was a beautifully sunny afternoon so why would a fox be in the garden attacking a puppy? My boyfriend was carrying Barney who seemed absolutely no worse for the experience. It turns out that Barney spotted something amongst the flower bed and went over and barked when all of a sudden the fox jumped out at him snarling, Barney ran backwards and my boyfriend caught him. He was convinced the fox was still in the same place so I went out to look and he was right, I could see his big ears peeking out over the flowers. The fox looked very, very old, really filthy dirty with much of his fur missing and was very, very underweight. I think he had come to the garden to die. He did not look well at all. There was no point calling the RSPCA, so I am expecting to find the deceased fox later this week when I next return. I was sad to see the fox in this state, as he looked literally hours from certain death and I am grateful he was so infirm (couldn't move) or Barney could have been very badly bitten or worse.
 
Probably got the dreaded mange, Kathy, which debilitates foxes so badly that in the end they will eventually die from it. In this desperate heat, I hope you left the old boy a nice big bucket of water and a (last) supper? He was probably exhausted.
 
I didn't leave him any food out Krizon, but there are lots of empty plastic buckets containing rain water. He really did look in a very bad way. I have no affection for foxes having seen what they had done to my Dad's collection of chickens and ducks, leaving most of them half dead and my Dad having to finish the job BUT I don't want to see an animal suffering in this way. If I had had a gun, I would have shot him. I am dreading going back later in the week to see what has happened.
 
I guess you won't be calling the RSPCA to finish him off, then, Kathy, after your experience with the muntjac?
 
B) Exactly what b/friend said Krizon. I can only imagine what they would do to it. Hopefully, it will just die in relative peace, which begs the question, what do I do with the carcass? :blink:
 
To be honest, I'd have thought it would have been kinder to have killed him, or called the RSPCA to put him out of his misery. It's no criticism that you didn't but at least the RSPCA could have euthanased him. I know it seems harsh but it sounds as though he was suffering - personally, I'd rather free them of that. I have deliberately broken rabbits' necks and the likes in the past to leave them in peace.
 
Shadow Leader, if you had seen how scared he was, and how likely he was to attack (probably because he was absolutely petrified), I think it was far safer and kinder letting nature taking it's course. We had an hour's drive on the M25 ahead of us, and had Barney not spotted him minutes before we were due to leave we would have been none the wiser. He will probably have found somewhere cool under the bushes, and quietly passed away. I have never (intentionally) killed an animal before, and I am not going to start with an inpredictable fox in this situation.
 
Fair enough Kathy - comes from my country upbringing, I suppose. I'm never afraid to put a suffering aninal out of it's misery.

I don't envy you finding the carcass though, especially if the weather stays hot!
 
My boyfriend says he will throw it into next doors garden as they conned my friend into having all her trees chopped down a few years back.

I am sure he was only joking! :ph34r: :)
 
I'd have asked DG's dog what the square root of 75 was in surd form, multiplied by 8 to the power of -1. Then we'll see if he knows any numbers other than 8 or 6. :angry:
 
Say this is the square root symbol... /

The /75 is not a rational number, so we need to make it into a "surd". This is done by finding two numbers which multiply together to make 75, and one of them needs to be able to have a rational square root. In this instance, /25 x 3 would suffice. Then, we find the square root of 25, which is 5, and create the surd, 5 /3. And no I dont know what the point of it is :lol: :confused:
 
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Is he cute or what?
 
Going back to the fox situation, I have sent my Dad down there today on the pretence of asking him to cut the grass for me. He hasn't phoned yet to say he has found the corpse. :blink:
 
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