From The Evening Standard:
Council bosses were today accused of ignoring urban foxes plaguing a north London council block by treating them as though they have “human rights”. Brent council has refused to move a family of foxes that have been entering homes in Queen’s Park in case it causes the animals “unnecessary suffering”.
Resident and former Arsenal groundsman Tom Logan has told how he now fears that his young daughter could be attacked by one of the foxes. Nail technicians Nikki Hollis and single mother Stephanie Malley also live in the flats.
The foxes have set up a den in the overgrown garden of one of the several million-pound homes which back onto the council block. Logan, 48, said he was now wary of allowing his two-year-old daughter Lola to play in the garden without supervision. His wife Nancy, who is expecting their second child this week, said:
“It is pretty frightening. Lola loves playing in the garden and we can’t now leave her in there just to run about. We have put netting up so it stops them getting in. It is frightening because we have a little girl and we hear stories about them coming and attacking kids.”
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9 comments:
Plans are afoot to reintroduce bears and wolves, irrespective of the fact that they were exterminated in the middle ages because they ate children and lambs.
I am astonished at the sentimentality of city dwellers who like to see urban foxes about. Even otherwise quite intelligent people put food out for them.
The days when many town dwellers used to keep a few hens at the bottom of the garden are long gone, so nobody has any incentive to think otherwise.
I guess it will take an outbreak of rabies among the fox population to bring people to their senses.
Call the local hunt in - oops sorry Tony Wot's His Name ended that option.
IH, ES, BB, well yes, I agree with all your comments, but that wasn't really the point of the article. Read the full version in the ES.
Personally, I'd much rather have the foxes as neighbours. They probably leave less mess and make less of a racket in mating season...
What is a nail technician? Someone who develops better fastening devices (a useful occupation), or a school reject who applies lacquer to the fingernails (a misuse of the word technician on a par with calling a boiler repair man an engineer)?
As a professional engineer, I deplore the dumbing-down of these words.
Ed P, it's the latter. The name might be fancy but at least they're out doing something, I see no reason to look down on them.
Ed P. Yes well, I am sure you're also pretty fed up with being an 'Engineer', on a par with the bloke that fixes your washing machine?
"and we hear stories about them coming and attacking kids."
Which stories have probably been going around since the Middle Ages, before when it was wolves and the stories were probably true.
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