Foxes

toot · Post by **toot** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 4:03 am

Just ran over a fox on my way home from the petrol station. Walked out in front of me and I braked and swerved but he had come out from behind one of those bollard things on an island in the middle of the road so didn't see him in time and couldn't swerve to the other side.

I could feel his bones crushing as I went over him. Poor little thing, was only little. very distressing.

TheMinel · Post by **TheMinel** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 9:53 am

awww poor thing

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:30 am

That's real sad, on a brighter note a few nights ago i saved a hedgehog from being run over by running out into the road to stop an on coming car then chasing it into some near by bushes (the hedgehog not the car

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paul_y3k · Post by **paul_y3k** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:48 am

t'other day .. car in front of me took out a pheasent and i got the fall out .... actualyl had two tiny feet sticking out the intercooler ....

then there was the time I took orphaned a baby badger

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 11:54 am

awww poor thing

bet you wouldn't say that if it was a rat .......they're both vermin!

tiranova · Post by **tiranova** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 12:33 pm

awww poor thing

bet you wouldn't say that if it was a rat .......they're both vermin!

Duncan have you no heart? No wildlife deserves to be run over by a car. British wildlife is something to be proud of!

ex pug owner · Post by **ex pug owner** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:12 pm

On the subject of road kill. I once saw a cow that had been split in half right down the middle. I saw the rear half and my mate who drives the same way to work in the mornings saw the head half.

Not a pleasant sight first thing in the morning

and the van (and driver) that hit it didn't look too good either.

Hope your car is okay by the way

CB · Post by CB » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:14 pm

Just ran over a fox on my way home from the petrol station. Walked out in front of me and I braked and swerved but he had come out from behind one of those bollard things on an island in the middle of the road so didn't see him in time and couldn't swerve to the other side.

I could feel his bones crushing as I went over him. only little.

well thats one less Leicester City fan in the world - so its not all bad

TheMinel · Post by **TheMinel** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:32 pm

I'd feel sorry for a rat too.....and a cat, and a hare, and a badger and whatever else could get killed!
and why would foxes be vermin? coz they eat your chicken?

stephen T · Post by **stephen T** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:36 pm

kill all rats

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 1:46 pm

vermin / n. (usu. treated as pl.)
1 mammals and birds injurious to game, crops, etc., e.g. foxes, rodents, and noxious insects.

Burge · Post by **Burge** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:08 pm

Bugger, one less to be hunted this winter!

As for eating chickens thats nothing. The trouble with foxes is they will break into a chicken coop and kill everything and eat nothing!! Once heard about one that started eating a calf as it was being born and its feet hadn't even touched the ground!

If foxes were ugly no-one would give a s**t. Rant over.

Burge

(Veteran of at least 4 countryside marches!)

There that should get the insults flowing!!!

Aimee · Post by **Aimee** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:11 pm

I ran a person over once

, so I can sorta understand your predicament Toot!! Hope your car is okay.

(Incidently, it wasn't my fault he ran into the road and he was okay!!!)

paul_y3k · Post by **paul_y3k** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:16 pm

burge .. how can a fox eat a calf ... surly he wouldn't be able to get through the sellaphane wrappings that my beef comes in ? I would of though the same was true of a chicken ... again something in sellaphane is bloody difficult to open ...

cmon most poeple thing the country is somewhere to have a holiday cottage

oohh and whilst we're at it, can the govenrment give my family back the land they took from us in ww2 to build spitfires on ?

thank you that was a party political broadcast .... vote Paul for a free CC with every box of cornflakes

Greenday · Post by **Greenday** » Wed Jul 23, 2003 2:19 pm

I ran a person over once , so I can sorta understand your predicament Toot!! Hope your car is okay.

(Incidently, it wasn't my fault he ran into the road and he was okay!!!)

Did you hear any bones breaking when you ran them over?