Fox

Stories about children-mauling foxes have been appearing in the news recently, with questions being raised about whether their nature is dangerous or not. I have even read one persons assertion that they often kill farm animals out of ‘spite’ – a notion that is ignorant and ludicrous. Spite is a human emotion and wild foxes are just that – wild. To treat them any differently than a feral cat or dog is inviting trouble. Of course if foxes really are capable of feeling spite then they are far more intelligent than any other wild animal and should therefore be a protected species! I wonder what people in other countries more accustomed to living alongside wild animals would think about the way we British are humanising these creatures in our typically over-sentimental way.

No children in sight

One thing I will add – although I have no sentimental attachment to wild animals, I am absolutely against fox hunting with dogs. The arguements proposed in support of this archaic blood sport are flimsy and only thinly veil the underlying cruelty of the ‘sport’.