Fox attack

[marilyn]

Had lunch yesterday with someone who's just returned from London. She told me about a fox attacking twin babies in a house in east london - blimey!! I googled when I got home and 3 papers had 3 different locations homerton, hackney and stoke newington/ My friend wants to know how the children are - are there any updates????

[jo]

it was lauriston road marilyn , the babies are home .have injuries to their arms.they have captured 6 foxes in a bait/cage in their garden.
another child was bitten at the weekend , the foxes were under a building and it is believed he pulled or touched its tail.but he wasnt badly injured . to be honest i always thought foxes were too timid to do this .

[Barryoneoff]

These poxy foxes are getting too brave because people are feeding them. They wont learn until they find their cat ripped to pieces one day. They don't belong in towns!

[valk]

Here we go....We are the ones who built Towns and cities where wildlife once lived, so why should they have to vacate just to suit us? and although I feel sorry for those poor children, bloody clever fox to have negotiated all around the house to arrive in the childrens bedroom, is it not possible that it could also have been a neighbours dog? there are many dogs the same colour. Foxes are nervous animals and will go inside a house if food is left lying around but would make sure that they have a clear escape route....so all in all I don't really believe those stories...only my opinion you understand.

[ladyDeWint]

and an opinion I agree with Val, animal experts have said there have only been three reported 'fox' attacks in the past but when investigated they proved to be two by dogs and one by a cat.

[Barryoneoff]

Foxes are nervous animals

Not the ones that live in town. I have one that I have to chase away from my front gate (not now of course). He just stands his ground and stares at you. They might look nice but they are killers!

[Liverpool Street]

This is an article fromm the bbc - definately looks like a fox.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/10276286.stm

[valk]

Yes it does look like a Fox...Conveniently.

[jo]

i agree with you val , im very suspicious about this story .

[Liverpool Street]

Oh No - It could never be a a fox - they look too cute.

[Barryoneoff]

Exactly! So cute, but along with humans they are one of the few animals that kills for no reason. Kill 20 chickens to eat one!

[valk]

They save the rest for later but people clear them away so they have to go and kill some more.

[Vic]

' Earlier in the week Mrs Koupparis described her daughters as looking ‘like something out of a horror movie’ when she dashed up to their bedroom to find them covered in blood and the fox still in the room.
It resisted leaving the room for some time, finally running off only when Mr Koupparis, a finance chief for a film company, chased it away. Wildlife experts claimed it was unheard of for a fox to attack a human inside a house, but neighbours in the fashionable Victoria Park area of Hackney said the animals were becoming ever bolder'

'Yesterday a cage trap left by pest controllers on the family’s rear patio claimed its fourth fox since Sunday. All the captured animals – two vixens and two cubs – have been put down on the spot, though it is impossible to say if the culprit was among them. Urban wildlife expert John Bryant claimed the destruction of the foxes was pointless.
He said: ‘The pest controllers don’t understand the species. Foxes have territories and they won’t let other foxes in. If you empty that territory it will fill up with foxes from neighbouring areas within a few days.’

' Mother Pauline, 41, smiled as she carried Lola into the family’s £800,000 three-storey Victorian house in Hackney, East London.'

I cant see what's suss about this story, they saw a fox in the bedroom and foxes have been seen in the area but it makes sense what that wildlife expert said.
I'm puzzled why foxes would move into an area like that when there is still a lot of countryside just outside London.
I know this is off topic but 800,000 quid for a house in Hackney !!!

[Barryoneoff]

I'm puzzled why foxes would move into an area like that when there is still a lot of countryside just outside London.
I know this is off topic but 800,000 quid for a house in Hackney !!!

In answer to the first part; there are idiots who put food out for them, as well as food litter from takeaways.

As to the second point, the East End is fast becoming the "in" place.

[ladyDeWint]

I'm puzzled why foxes would move into an area like that when there is still a lot of countryside just outside London.

It's as Val said so much of their natural habitat has been destroyed with roads and housing that it's easy for them to find food in the city where so many fast food and take away outlets aren't that particular where their waste ends up.