samboy Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 Hi gang. Looked out of my bedroom window yesterday morning and saw a dead fox on the lawn. Whippet and lurcher laying there looking quite pleased with themselves . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rst1990 Posted July 29, 2018 Report Share Posted July 29, 2018 Unfortunate way to die, poor fox. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveboy Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 Serves him right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 18 hours ago, Rst1990 said: Unfortunate way to die, poor fox. Well it depends entirely on what killed it. We’re assuming it was the two dogs. Now if it was the whippet that killed it then it wouldn’t have been the swiftest death in the world as the whippet lacks the overall power to crunch and kill a fox in one good bite. They’ll get the job done but it’ll take some doing. The lurcher now that depends on what make and model of lurcher you’ve got. I know of some lurchers that would be more than capable of killing a fox as fast or faster than a terrier killing rats. Indeed that’s what the bull X lurcher was developed for. So if it was the lurcher then he went down as quick as if he’d been shot. Now if you’re argument actually boils down to old Charles being run round a bit by a couple of dogs then you probably want to consider what old Charles feels when someone makes him lamp shy and then how he feels every time he sees a lamp at night and ****s his pants and takes off. Animals don’t live in perpetual fear, they mooch around in their daily life doing their own thing, then danger and they run, danger averted, back to mooching. They don’t have the mental alacrity to worry in the sense that we as humans do. And finally terriers kill rats. Would you be saying the same thing if samboy had said poor old ratty, the lurcher and whippet killed a family of them this morning? Nope. I love seeing the foxes about, I enjoy shooting them, I enjoyed hunting them preban and I still enjoy hunting them within the confines of the law as it currently stands. So not so much poor fox and unfortunate way to die, more stupid fox knew dogs lived in that garden and chanced his luck one time too many. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retsdon Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 Wrong place, wrong time. It's how most creatures - and a good proportion of people come to that- meet their end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 Our two Scottie bitches nearly killed a young fox the other day in our daughter's back garden. It looked to be dead on the lawn, but by the time our SIL had got the dogs off, put them in the house and found a spade to finish it off, it had scarpered. I was astonished that the Scotties had got stuck in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benthejockey Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Like most terriers the Scottie was a worker until the KC got their claws into them. A friend of mine breeds and shows pedigree welsh terriers at international level and reckons that they’re the biggest killers going even though they’re posh pedigree show dogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix's rifle Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) 12 hours ago, amateur said: Our two Scottie bitches nearly killed a young fox the other day in our daughter's back garden. It looked to be dead on the lawn, but by the time our SIL had got the dogs off, put them in the house and found a spade to finish it off, it had scarpered. I was astonished that the Scotties had got stuck in It's a terror at the end of the day, it's in them all! My German shepherds will take a fox without doubt, it's nature I'm afraid Edit-dogs are also protective, something they didn't know went into the garden so they defended there territory Edited July 31, 2018 by Hendrix's rifle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 Are there any marks on the dogs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samboy Posted August 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 2 hours ago, Vince Green said: Are there any marks on the dogs? Whippet had a slight bite mark on jaw as did the Lurcher. Thats all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amateur Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 No marks on our Scotties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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