Weird finding on Fox..............

[Evil Elvis]

:o I shot a fox the other day and it had a large square shaved area on its stomach, i thought Mange but it was perfectly rectangle and there was a small one on its left foreleg. I didnt pay much attention at the time.

 

Now Ive thought about it i thought perhaps spaded by some doogooder group, but it was a boy!!! Someone had told me that trapped foxes were being neutered and released...?

 

Conspiracy theory?

 

Im wondering wether it was from a rescue sanctuary and was injured, nursed back to health and released?

 

Anyone else come across this?

 

 

WELL ITS DEAD NOW!!!! :o They will need to find a different place to release them!!! :o

[Dougy]

pictures :o

[bobt]

we shot one a while ago with stitches in its side, never did work out how it was going back for a checkup :o

[Evil Elvis]

:o I didnt bother at the time, just thought mange but then thought, not in rectangles lol!!!!! If you look at the FOX. thread in sporting pictures its that one, you can see the rectangle on the front leg. :o

[jazz_11]

proberbly some group, why the hell would they castrate them? keep numbers down? isnt that illegal?

[agusta]

Whatever the reason its a waste of money :o

[bennyblanco]

In 2006 we had 5 crazy Thursday night outings at a farm near Royston, I think three of us got 17 foxes between us. Most of them had been given some kind of surgery and then been released into this little nature reserve, they would cross into this neighbouring farm with any kind of call or squeak and get shot.

I think whoever had done the work realised as the population dried up apart for a couple of the more cautious ones, was good fun while it lasted :o

[vole]

I heard that the Chinese eat certain organs but it is against their religion to take their life so they patch em up and release em.

I tend to believe the stories that injured ones from the towns are treated and let off in the country. The vets probably get paid for it. Stupid and cruel.

[Evil Elvis]

:o yeah and as someone said....a waste of money....especially when im around lol. :o

[Vince Green]

There aren't that many injured foxes in towns. A few young ones get run over but you virtually never see a dead adult on the road. They get street wise very quickly. Its hard to catch an adult urban fox in a trap for the same reason, traps catch young foxes predominantly.

 

They die from mange at a comparatively early age by fox standards but there are no natural enemies.

Edited March 20, 2010 by Vince Green

[Evil Elvis]

If it were a female id say 100% that it had been spayed but as it was a male? who knows, Wish i had taken piccys of it now

[kyska]

If it were a female id say 100% that it had been spayed but as it was a male? who knows, Wish i had taken piccys of it now

 

Its shame you don't have pics, its common practice to neuter males via the 'pre-scrotal' route, not through the scrotum itself, did you notice if it had any conkers? Its certain;y sounds like it from what you've said, especially if the foreleg was shaved for induction, although I wouldn;t like to restrain a fox for that, I'd use an injectable other than the intravenous route....interesting though.

[Evil Elvis]

He had very small conkers!!

[stokie]

He had very small conkers!!

 

 

Are you sure it wasnt just the cold weather :look: :o

[Vince Green]

if the foreleg was shaved for induction,

This sounds like something that might be done when you join the masons. Maybe you have a foxes lodge active in your area.

[Frenchieboy]

Quote - "He had very small conkers"

 

Are you sure it wasnt just the cold weather

 

Are you thinking of the fox or the shooter with this comment mate?

[Evil Elvis]

oi!!! iT WASNT COLD!!!

[Windknot]

Did you check if there were any crop circles about? Might be aliens?

[gixer1]

I'm pretty sure your conkers would half in size if someone shot you with a rifle...