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London Police Solve Mystery of Croydon Cat Killer: There Wasn’t One


Look at the red fox striding right past No. 10 Downing Street! Right in front of the Prime Minister's home!

I think this and the cat killing by foxes discussed in the article are largely due to an explosion in British fox populations following the ban on fox hunting.

Foxes aside, if humans are at fault here, it reminds me of the manner that Mau-Mau terrorists in 1950's Kenya left mutilated cats on the doors of British settlers' homes.

Robert C. Ruark cited a ditty popular among the Brits there then. It's funny, but I probably can't post it here.

Anyway, that fox in the photo at No. 10 Downing St. amused me.
If the PM sees it, I hope she isn't too frightened. I'm sure she has armed security. :D
 
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Several years ago I saw a TV show about the plague of foxes in England. Exterminators can trap and shoot them. One of the very few exceptions to banning handgun ownership in England is their use by licensed exterminators. The TV show showed an exterminator using a small Beretta .22 semiauto to shoot trapped foxes.
 
There was a genuine concern that a cat killing human was responsible. They convicted one in the West Midlands of the UK about 15 years ago. He was in his 20s and looked about as blah as you can imagine, but was really a late blooming Dahmer.
 
I'm assuming the reason they are there because there's an abundant food supply, perhaps trash or people feeding them.

Eliminate the reason to come into town and they'll stop.
 
Texas Star said:
London Police Solve Mystery of Croydon Cat Killer: There Wasn’t One


Look at the red fox striding right past No. 10 Downing Street! Right in front of the Prime Minister's home!

I think this and the cat killing by foxes discussed in the article are largely due to an explosion in British fox populations following the ban on fox hunting.

Foxes aside, if humans are at fault here, it reminds me of the manner that Mau-Mau terrorists in 1950's Kenya left mutilated cats on the doors of British settlers' homes.

Robert C. Ruark cited a ditty popular among the Brits there then. It's funny, but I probably can't post it here.

Anyway, that fox in the photo at No. 10 Downing St. amused me.
If the PM sees it, I hope she isn't too frightened. I'm sure she has armed security. :D
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Look closer at that photo in front of #10. It's a fake.

That of course don't mean there aren't foxes in London. :D

Edit. I also believe foxes are being "framed" on this one
 
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Where I live, we have foxes and coyotes in town, but some of the felines are bobcats. They're less likely to become dog food than domestic cats,

There are squirrels, opossums, raccoons, etc. as well as birds to eat. Even the house kitties get birds and squirrels as well as mice and rats. I think owls take some cats, and they certainly get rabbits.

Raccoons and coyotes will scavenge garbage, and I'm pretty sure that one particular coyote is being fed at a Jack-in-the Box fast food place.
 
Texas Star said:
Where I live, we have foxes and coyotes in town, but some of the felines are bobcats. They're less likely to become dog food than domestic cats,

There are squirrels, opossums, raccoons, etc. as well as birds to eat. Even the house kitties get birds and squirrels as well as mice and rats. I think owls take some cats, and they certainly get rabbits.

Raccoons and coyotes will scavenge garbage, and I'm pretty sure that one particular coyote is being fed at a Jack-in-the Box fast food place.
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Around here we have foxes. But I don't think they venture into town. On the outskirts there are lots of stray dogs. And they have formed packs. Foxes won't come near. Wild boars. That's another story.:D

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Feral hogs come in at the edges of Houston suburbs as well as large Hawks and Eagles ,coyotes etc live in all areas of the city. Feral cats by me have a tough go but still abound.
 
A pair of pigeons nested between the top of the porch roof and the overhang of the main house this spring and raised three prs of young this summer.Its about five feet from the kitchen window right at eye level.I was watching this last pair a week ago wandering around wondering when they would fly when a red tail hawk dove in from the right and nailed one! They flew just fine...sorta
 
SC_Mike said:
I'm assuming the reason they are there because there's an abundant food supply, perhaps trash or people feeding them.

Eliminate the reason to come into town and they'll stop.
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The urban fox has become a thing in the UK because there is nowhere else to go. Folk in the UK are pretty good about trash, so the foxes have made do with low nesting birds, mice and outdoor cats. Yes, there are brain donors who feed them.

The urban fox has got pretty ballsy in the time I've been away from the UK. Last time I was back there one came onto the train station platform at 2100 to see if the travelers had dropped any snacks. He walked right under one lady sat at a bench and she was oblivious. I took notice and he kept his distance from me.
 
Britain needs to allow people to own rifles for fox control. I suggest a nice bolt action rifle in .223, equipped with a telescopic sight and a silencer. Don't want to disturb anyone with the sound of a gun shot.
 
I remember in the TV documentary I mentioned earlier that there were a lot of British people who enjoyed having foxes in their neighborhood and considered them as pets. They really resented having them trapped and shot. We had a similar situation in one of the local well-to-do housing developments here in San Antonio, Tame whitetail deer had overrun the area and were eating up everyone's shrubbery. About half the residents wanted them trapped and removed, and the other half wanted them left unmolested. I think they ended up getting trapped and removed - to some wild game processor.
 
Coyotes around here will come far into town during the night via the cover of the creeks and drainage ditches.
 
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Coyotes around here will come far into town during the night via the cover of the creeks and drainage ditches.
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So do feral pigs, as in Dallas.

I saw a coyote trot past me one night at 3:00AM as I sat in my car, watching a shopping strip that had had burglaries. I think he was headed down Lovers Lane just past Highland Park Village, en route to a Jack-in-the-Box a few blocks down the street.

For those unfamiliar with Dallas, that area is high value real estate, adjacent to a suburb much like Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, and laid out by the same architect.

I've seen grey foxes in a wooded neighborhood just off of Forest Ln., just short of Inwood Rd. There's a lot of wooded acreage back in there among the palaces of the wealthy residents, and many wild animals live there.

For those who don't know, coyotes are quite a bit larger than most foxes.
 
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