bullet boy Posted October 17, 2013 Report Share Posted October 17, 2013 A documentary looking at the issue of 33,000 urban foxes roaming Britains streets is on next Tuesday 22nd Oct at 11:05pm on BBC1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted October 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Worth a look I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_b_wales Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Thanks for letting us know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Prawn Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 if it starts at 1105 what about a sweepstake until we see the first person that feeds them? 1106? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil3728 Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 This could be good. it could also be complete trash showing people running around trying to feed and cuddle the foxes. Really all depends on who the narator is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shotgun sam Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 Thanks for letting us know about this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted October 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 This could be good. it could also be complete trash showing people running around trying to feed and cuddle the foxes. Really all depends on who the narator is. Your right Neil.We'll just have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRamsay Posted October 18, 2013 Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 How did they come to the figure of 33,000, Did they manage to count them all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted October 18, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2013 How did they come to the figure of 33,000, Did they manage to count them all? I know I though that!Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet boy Posted October 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Don't forget to set your Sky boxes for this tomorrow night peeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIGHT SEARCHER Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Thanks for letting us know i will be watching it. But it will be a load of B*** **** if BBC 1 have anything to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Apparently this is what we can expect.................. Duration: 45 minutes Love them or hate them, there are 33,000 urban foxes roaming Britain's suburbia. For the residents of the Copse in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire - as for so many other suburbanites - the urban fox provides evenings of enchantment. A cul-de-sac of neighbours compete to offer the tastiest snacks for their bushy-tailed visitors, with one couple even setting up their own CCTV system to provide happy evenings of Fox TV. Nobby, a resident of Brookside, north London, is also a keen fox feeder. The vixen he has been feeding for the past five years provides him with a welcome distraction and companion through the night hours. But Nobby's approach isn't much appreciated by his neighbours. They blame him for attracting more foxes into the area and making them bolder. His near neighbour Sofia has to take extreme measures in order to protect her flock of Bantam hens. "If a fox killed my chickens I'd be absolutely devastated. I don't know what I'd do. I'd probably start shooting them myself," she says. There are 16 foxes for every square mile in London, living off food scavenged from dustbins and sicarded takeaways They can live up to 14 years but most urban foxes only manage two. Some are killed by pest controllers like Tim, who's been shooting foxes for 14 years, or Lee, who has killed over 2,000 foxes in the last 10 years. It's not easy work - it often takes hours of waiting and tracking and it can cost up to £200 per fox. Not all pest controllers favour the gun. Foxagon is one of the few humane pest controllers in the UK: they specialise in moving foxes on rather than destroying them and claim to have so far saved the lives of more than 200 foxes. Foxes tend to have about five cubs a season, making a busy spring for Foxagon's Terry. He argues there's no point in killing urban foxes as another fox will quickly move into the same territory. Terry would have a hard time making a fox lover of Janet, whose beloved garden in Newport, south Wales, has been persistently and pungently fouled by foxes. Janet has big plans for her garden fox: "I will put 20,000 volts through it. I will fry it," she says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 This could be good. it could also be complete trash showing people running around trying to feed and cuddle the foxes. Really all depends on who the narator is. If Bill Oddie has anything to do with it I'll lay 3/1 that Brian May will show within the first 5 minutes with a fox or two hiding in his hair! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Apparently this is what we can expect.................. Duration: 45 minutes Love them or hate them, there are 33,000 urban foxes roaming Britain's suburbia. For the residents of the Copse in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire - as for so many other suburbanites - the urban fox provides evenings of enchantment. A cul-de-sac of neighbours compete to offer the tastiest snacks for their bushy-tailed visitors, with one couple even setting up their own CCTV system to provide happy evenings of Fox TV. Nobby, a resident of Brookside, north London, is also a keen fox feeder. The vixen he has been feeding for the past five years provides him with a welcome distraction and companion through the night hours. But Nobby's approach isn't much appreciated by his neighbours. They blame him for attracting more foxes into the area and making them bolder. His near neighbour Sofia has to take extreme measures in order to protect her flock of Bantam hens. "If a fox killed my chickens I'd be absolutely devastated. I don't know what I'd do. I'd probably start shooting them myself," she says. There are 16 foxes for every square mile in London, living off food scavenged from dustbins and sicarded takeaways They can live up to 14 years but most urban foxes only manage two. Some are killed by pest controllers like Tim, who's been shooting foxes for 14 years, or Lee, who has killed over 2,000 foxes in the last 10 years. It's not easy work - it often takes hours of waiting and tracking and it can cost up to £200 per fox. Not all pest controllers favour the gun. Foxagon is one of the few humane pest controllers in the UK: they specialise in moving foxes on rather than destroying them and claim to have so far saved the lives of more than 200 foxes. Foxes tend to have about five cubs a season, making a busy spring for Foxagon's Terry. He argues there's no point in killing urban foxes as another fox will quickly move into the same territory. Terry would have a hard time making a fox lover of Janet, whose beloved garden in Newport, south Wales, has been persistently and pungently fouled by foxes. Janet has big plans for her garden fox: "I will put 20,000 volts through it. I will fry it," she says. The usual factually based, accurate and non biased night time viewing from the BBC then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reece Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Apparently this is what we can expect.................. Duration: 45 minutes Love them or hate them, there are 33,000 urban foxes roaming Britain's suburbia. For the residents of the Copse in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire - as for so many other suburbanites - the urban fox provides evenings of enchantment. A cul-de-sac of neighbours compete to offer the tastiest snacks for their bushy-tailed visitors, with one couple even setting up their own CCTV system to provide happy evenings of Fox TV. Nobby, a resident of Brookside, north London, is also a keen fox feeder. The vixen he has been feeding for the past five years provides him with a welcome distraction and companion through the night hours. But Nobby's approach isn't much appreciated by his neighbours. They blame him for attracting more foxes into the area and making them bolder. His near neighbour Sofia has to take extreme measures in order to protect her flock of Bantam hens. "If a fox killed my chickens I'd be absolutely devastated. I don't know what I'd do. I'd probably start shooting them myself," she says. There are 16 foxes for every square mile in London, living off food scavenged from dustbins and sicarded takeaways They can live up to 14 years but most urban foxes only manage two. Some are killed by pest controllers like Tim, who's been shooting foxes for 14 years, or Lee, who has killed over 2,000 foxes in the last 10 years. It's not easy work - it often takes hours of waiting and tracking and it can cost up to £200 per fox. Not all pest controllers favour the gun. Foxagon is one of the few humane pest controllers in the UK: they specialise in moving foxes on rather than destroying them and claim to have so far saved the lives of more than 200 foxes. Foxes tend to have about five cubs a season, making a busy spring for Foxagon's Terry. He argues there's no point in killing urban foxes as another fox will quickly move into the same territory. Terry would have a hard time making a fox lover of Janet, whose beloved garden in Newport, south Wales, has been persistently and pungently fouled by foxes. Janet has big plans for her garden fox: "I will put 20,000 volts through it. I will fry it," she says. What exactly does it mean by "moving" foxes? I thought releasing them elsewhere was one of the less humane methods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spandit Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 So no point killing a fox as another one will move in, but removing a live fox prevents another one moving in how, exactly? I'm sure there are some delighted farmers who love to rehome all these displaced foxes, who are probably able to switch to living in the wild without any problems... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wymberley Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 I like Janet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenman99 Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 My planner says 10.35pm start??? fenman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smig4373 Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 I was born in sutton in ashfield... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
la bala Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 as its bbc we can expect the truth and nothing but the truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salop Matt Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 The "Humane" Controller is an idiot by the sounds of it. Moving a fox to the countryside where it doesnt know how to survive and starves or if its lucky one of us shoots it Although if the fox`s kept returning and customers keep calling him back and paying every time he`s onto a nice little earner ! Having said that theres a fair few of us on here who feed fox`s am sure...........17+gn of lead at volocity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remmy1100 Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 bbc tv guide says on 10.35 till 11.20 peeps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peely Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 What exactly does it mean by "moving" foxes? I thought releasing them elsewhere was one of the less humane methods? I thought foxes were classed as vermin and as such could not be released once captured? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonix Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 Was it not that long ago that the BBC had a program on about the foxes that had got into a house and mauled a child?! I swear I remember watching it, or reading about it in the newspaper. Wonder if they will mention that in tonight's documentary?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leadbreakfast Posted October 21, 2013 Report Share Posted October 21, 2013 I live in sutton in Ashfield and not surprised they are recording here, the foxs come out at about eight o'clock and wonder the streets like cats. A friend had a BBQ this year and one came out of the hedge at two in the afternoon and just sat watching them eating. I did abit of calling out of the window a few month back and got four on the grass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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