pet fox ?

[Guest traceyg]

well you all sure do have lots of opinions thanks very much tg

[masmiffy 82]

My departed godfather, a very keen shooting man, took in two cubs once and raised them in his garage!

They used to wander off and return when they liked!

His garage did have that 'foxy' smell to it though!

[mouse 282]

HAD A FOX AT OUR WORKS THAT WOULD COME RIGHT UP TO YOU AND TAKE STUFF OUT OF YOUR HAND.WANTED TO TAKE IT AND LET IT GO MILES AWAY IN THE WILDS BUT THEY ALL WENT MAD SAYING I WOULD KILL IT.THAT WAS THE LAST THING ON MY MIND JUST WANTED TO SEE IT WILD AND NOT BEING FED f*****g CRAP ALL THE TIME.IT GOT SO TAME IT WOULD WANDER INSIDE AND SIT IN THE FACTORY WAITING TO BE FED.IN THE END THEY HAD IT TAKEN AWAY AND THE POOR f****r IS SPENDING THE REST OF HIS LIFE IN A CAGE AT A SANCTUARY.SURELY HE DESERVED BETTER THAN HIS BUT THE DOPY TOSSERS AT WORK DIDNT UNDERSTAND.

[Knifebar 0]

I knew a man once had a pet fox, he fed it looked after it, it followed him around all through the farm. Everyone said shoot it but he would'nt.

 

Then one day it went into the hens and killed half of them, SO HE SHOT IT.

 

 

Once a fox always a fox!! - SHOOT THEM ALL!

 

 

Knifebar

[Tiff 36]

As a teenager I took in and rehabbed orphaned/injured coon, opossum and one skunk (only one, my dad banned them after that!) Did it affect my ability to hunt? Nope, it made me respect the quarry even more. To me they aren't pets to be kept in a cage and coddled, once they were old enough to fend for themselves they were OUT, but to each his own I guess.

[Royston2 0]

HIS WIFE ARE YOU PISSED

[Tiff 36]

I was when I married your brother

[shotup 9]

on of my bitches once came out of a drain with a small blind cub and dropped it unhurt so i took it and placed it in my hat and popped it in my jacket for the rest of the day. i reared it up to be very tame towards my self and would lick and and make cacking noises and wag its tail whenever i went near it but would bite my brother or anyone else that tried to get friendly with it. i think it made me an honoray fox. none of my terriers ever tried to go beserk when they saw it but would eye it meaningfully though looking daggers .i let my brother take it and he released it after it bit his nose.

[jonesy 111]

I know of a lad who has a three year old vixen he keeps it in his allotment in a run but lets it out when he is there it plays with his staffy and has never tried to run of,it is handy when you put an artificial in ,i get a bit of old bedding and scatter it about near the holes.

[Guest little lurcher]

i think anyone involved with hunting etc ,can see the values of raising the orphaned young , my grandfather had a fox cu he raised , this was efore i was even a twinkle in my daddys eys, but he had it in the front room on a little thin chain when he wasnt there as it would bite my nanny , lol

 

i personally couldnt kill very young animals of any species , i prefer to watch them grow and learn their ways of the wild , i would really love to raise a cub!!!

 

however 1 word of warning when we raise with human like feeling , i done this with a bobby calf , a jersey cross who came to me at 12 hrs old , he was raised with my horses pigs and dogs and didnt know what he was??? at almost a yr old and a hell of a weight he almost killed me when he heard another cow moo, he had never heard it since he left his mother , he was terrified!!! this bullock would stand exactly wher i told him too, including in my fathers scrap yard with lorries behind him , he was tested one day to see if he would move without me telling him , he didnt lol, he also got scared one day and put him head through a neighours window to find human company when he was afraid, thats all ok and guess half of you are laughing the other half sayingwhat a silly cow i am , ut i realised what damage I HAD done taking away his natural instincts, i still raised bobby calves and enjoyed it but never again did i humanise 1

[masmiffy 82]

Quick diversion but similar subject.

Have a mate who had a 'pet' muntjac!

Raised it by hand and it lived in house like a dog or cat!

Was very tame and even litter trained!

He had it for about 14 years!

[Kay 3,709]

i think anyone involved with hunting etc ,can see the values of raising the orphaned young , my grandfather had a fox cu he raised , this was efore i was even a twinkle in my daddys eys, but he had it in the front room on a little thin chain when he wasnt there as it would bite my nanny , lol

 

i personally couldnt kill very young animals of any species , i prefer to watch them grow and learn their ways of the wild , i would really love to raise a cub!!!

 

however 1 word of warning when we raise with human like feeling , i done this with a bobby calf , a jersey cross who came to me at 12 hrs old , he was raised with my horses pigs and dogs and didnt know what he was??? at almost a yr old and a hell of a weight he almost killed me when he heard another cow moo, he had never heard it since he left his mother , he was terrified!!! this bullock would stand exactly wher i told him too, including in my fathers scrap yard with lorries behind him , he was tested one day to see if he would move without me telling him , he didnt lol, he also got scared one day and put him head through a neighours window to find human company when he was afraid, thats all ok and guess half of you are laughing the other half sayingwhat a silly cow i am , ut i realised what damage I HAD done taking away his natural instincts, i still raised bobby calves and enjoyed it but never again did i humanise 1

 

I can kind off see where your coming from with the humanising thing , i raised our terrier from a few days old \& i know its different as dogs live with humans , but i did notice she wasnt a typical terrier & she still does odd things now

[TOPPER 1,809]

over the years ive raised 3-4 foxes all have been released back into the wild and one i had the pleasure of diggin to twice but i think the rifle boys got him in the end we ve also reared badgers and many other wild animals but ive never stopped hunting them and never will . EVERYTHING DESERVES THE RIGHT TO LIFE

[shotup 9]

i think that to hunt an animal because you hate it is wrong, every sort of quarry even rats deserve some respect. every true hunter should admire his quarry for showing good sport and not massacer everything when given the chance.leave em to breed in the breeding season and only venture out when the farmer / keeper demands.

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Bloody well said, ShotUp!