RSPCA goes Fox Hunting and Fails
Toddler 'attacked by fox at school' - Telegraph
The boy pulled the animal's tail and was then attacked, the paper claimed, before onlookers pulled the boy free.
An RSPCA inspector was called in but could not catch the creature, it was reported.
Hardly an unprovoked attack, but maybe the RSPCA man wasn't the best choice for trying to catch Charles James, or did he rustle up some chums, doggies and horses, don the red coats and tally-ho through the streets? Maybe he didn't, which is why he failed.
Comments
Bet he didn't have a gun either.
Posted by: The Remittance Man | June 21, 2010 7:28 AM
"Hardly an unprovoked attack"
Erm, a 3-year old toddler at a school is not someone who 'provokes' anything... they don't have the moral capacity yet, and most likely he didn't even understand there is a difference between a fox and a teddy bear.
A fox should not be allowed to roam in broad daylight on a schoolyard. And what is to say that the same animal won't maul another child in some garden it infests? Foxes learn and this one figured out that foxes > small humans.
As for the fox hunt, that is a romantic hobby but not an effective method to fox control in a built up area where foxes have been permitted to reach maximum density.
Posted by: Hexe Froschbein | June 21, 2010 4:06 PM
"As for the fox hunt, that is a romantic hobby but not an effective method to fox control in a built up area where foxes have been permitted to reach maximum density."
True. But heaven forfend anyone in the UK ever being permitted to just shoot the damned things!
Posted by: JJM | June 21, 2010 8:05 PM
Shooting foxes is most unsporting, as Sir Rupert Murgatroyd discovered in Ruddigore.
Posted by: Oliver Nicholson | June 21, 2010 9:57 PM
"But heaven forfend anyone in the UK ever being permitted to just shoot the damned things!"
??? Of course you're allowed to trap and shoot them. Google for 'foxtrap' and ye shall find.
Posted by: Hexe Froschbein | June 23, 2010 5:57 PM