Messy, noisy pests

Foxes outside the Duke posted on the 28/01/2014 1:32:38 PM

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has noticed the // foxes that are hanging about outside the Duke pub in the early hours over the last few weeks. I'm not long in the area and am wondering if this is commonplace or a recent problem.

Thanks.

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#1 - ANON_L replied on the 28/01/2014 2:48:13 PM

Theres foxes all over Dennistoun. I feel quite sorry for them. There used to be a wee family with 2 babies I'd see outside my flat but not seen them in a while. Saddens me that they have been forced into cities to live.

#2 - The Mentalist replied on the 28/01/2014 7:45:56 PM

Leave the foxes alone! Not as dirty as the humans who really are messy, noisy pests.

#3 - Suz replied on the 28/01/2014 7:46:21 PM

I love seeing foxes, and always worry about them near the roads and in bad weather. Plenty of people are messy noisy pests too, but they at least are capable of change.

#4 - andy replied on the 28/01/2014 7:46:44 PM

I think you will find over time that there are a lot worse noisy messy pests than foxes around. Foxes are far from messy and only noisy for a couple of weeks of the year. They are not a problem. We really are a pathetic lot in this country in the US they live with bears in Australia with crocodiles. We greet about foxes and seagulls. Tragic

#5 - anon replied on the 28/01/2014 8:50:21 PM

Hi again,

Thanks for the replies, perhaps I was slightly aggressive in my title?

Don't get me wrong, I think foxes are gorgeously elegant and graceful creatures, in the correct environment. // I agree that they shouldn't be in the city, it's alien to them.

I have a van at work, does anyone know if I'd have to contact the council if I wanted to set up a rural relocation project? It could be a fun and purposeful activity in the summer?

#6 - anon_l replied on the 28/01/2014 9:09:15 PM

I would think very seriously about relocating foxes. Is this something you have experience in. I imagine you can't just "chuck" them in a back of a van and take them to the countryside. Why do you feel the need to do this? Yes they shouldn't be in the city, but this is their home and what they know. If it was as easy as having a van, do you not think someone would have done something by now? Your post really worries me tbh.

#7 - anon replied on the 28/01/2014 10:34:32 PM

they are vermin

#8 - Faux Lover replied on the 28/01/2014 11:25:22 PM

The use of the term "vermin" can be a subjective one. However when used in relation to urban foxes, it is in fact, incorrect. Usage of the term "vermin" is only correct when referring to rural foxes who's food sources include game. Whilst some may find urban foxes a nuisance it's wrong to label them vermin.

#9 - The Mentalist replied on the 29/01/2014 11:23:45 AM

To the OP, live and let live. Â Aye, good luck trying to chuck a fox in the back of a transit. Â Have you seen their jaws? Â And what if they are feeding babies?

#10 - Jimmy Mc replied on the 29/01/2014 7:56:37 PM

Don't feel sorry for foxes because you think they have been 'displaced' into the city - these are URBAN foxes - they are born raised, live and die in the city - they don't know any other life.

#11 - Anon replied on the 29/01/2014 10:56:43 PM

I had a big fox go for me in Alexandra Park few days ago. Luckily it gave up quite quickly and nothing happened. Looked really disorientated. Watch out.

#12 - Anon replied on the 29/01/2014 10:58:11 PM

I have a wee garden and wanted to camp out overnight with my kids but because of these foxes were too scared too.

#13 - Chris replied on the 29/01/2014 10:59:02 PM

What next a cull of the deer in the necropolis? Are you having a laugh? If not and you are serious about a Â 'fun and purposeful activity in the summer' leave the foxes out of it.

#14 - anon_l replied on the 30/01/2014 1:06:07 AM

How do you think the first ever fox ended up in a city? Because 'we' humans started building in the countryside, in their natural habitat and forced them out. They came here, or other cities to survive. This attitude towards wildlife really makes me angry.

#15 - The Mentalist replied on the 30/01/2014 12:16:27 PM

"I had a big fox go for me in Alexandra Park few days ago. Luckily it gave up quite quickly and nothing happened. Looked really disorientated. Watch out."

I walk through the park most days and have never seen a fox there.

#16 - Jimmy Mc replied on the 30/01/2014 1:46:45 PM

#17 - anon replied on the 30/01/2014 1:55:10 PM

Are you serious? To leave any sanctimonious stuff out - foxes live near us. Get used to it. I find it hysterical that youd even think you could just take the foxes away in a van. Good luck lol theres about 500 more.
It never ceases to amaze me how on these local community forums people whinge about the wild life.

Like nothing can be done about seagulls, pigeons, foxes, squirrels, rats - whatever. It happens when you cohabit a planet that has other non human life.

Its pretty nasty, but do people really have so little to think about that the local wild life is an issue?? I just moved from a place where there was blood all over the close etc and theres people greetin about foxes??

Ps to the user who got attacked by a fox, i can believe it cos a fox has been following me about ally park last couple of nights, but if you just run at it (if you feel able) itll run away. Theyre just animals, not killing machines.

#18 - anon_l replied on the 30/01/2014 2:03:40 PM

"This attitude towards wildlife really makes me angry."

What attitude? Â I was only correcting the mistaken belief that urban foxes were somehow lost in the big city and had wandered in from the country and had no idea what they are doing. Â We've always had urban foxes, and they do very well.

That wasn't an attitude, it was a fact.

Its not a fact. Foxes came to the city as they were forced out of the countryside. They then began to breed in the city and we now have urban foxes. Yes they do, do very well. Until people like the OP come up with bright ideas to remove them using vans. // As previous anon says, it happens when we cohabit with non humans.

#19 - anon replied on the 30/01/2014 2:23:25 PM

I don't think there's anywhere in any city in the UK that you wouldn't see foxes in the streets at night, this is such a bizarre question to ask, unless you've never lived in a city before or been on the streets of a city at night. Why would it be a Dennistoun problem? No matter where you are trust that there are foxes rooting about your bins while you sleep, and leave them to it.

#20 - anon replied on the 30/01/2014 3:01:25 PM

Also foxes werent forced out of anywhere by any one. Theyre scavenging animals. They live near predators higher up the food chain (us)

Thats how life works. No point in being pro human or pro fox about it. It is what it is.

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