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Urban foxes have been around as long as cities have been around. Yes, their population could withstand a cull - their numbers are greater than ever - but I'd not want them poisoned because that would be cruel and would inevitably mean other animals (cats, dogs etc) eating the poison too.
Banning the hunting of foxes in the countryside should never have happened; it was always a politically motivated piece of legislation, seen as stopping Tory gentry from enjoying their rural blood sports. What it actually did was to interfere with a long-established rural eco system based on the food chain, as well as lead to hundreds of dogs being put down and those employed by hunts being made redundant; in fact, the whole thing backfired on an idealistic, short-sighted Labour government by making poorly paid country workers unemployed, typical of Labour acting against the people they purport to represent.
I see a separate news report on the BBC this morning that the age old fear of badgers spreading bovine TB is back, and that a cull is to take place; how many more animals have to be killed before man learns that nature is the best way forward? On this thread alone, there is talk of culling foxes, rabbits and badgers....isn't it simply better to let nature take its course without trying to micro manage something we actually know very little about?
I hear the population in China is very high at the moment......a cull should sort it out. If that's nonsense (which it is), so is trying to cull everything else.
