Maybe the fox didn't get the sheep 🐏🐏

You gotta watch out for them trophy hunters!!!

Large numbers of foxes in cities/towns today appears to be the norm, same goes for certain song/garden birds, rooks/crows, magpies. I watched some wildlife docs on tv and the larger cities in UK have quiet large populations of deer, foxes, badgers and of course squirrels. Its estimated that 10K foxes live in/around London. Reds squirrels are fine but we should seriously reduce the number of greys.

It’s all the free food, huge amounts of food available mainly from late night revellers (discarded kebabs, burgers, half eaten sambos, chips, etc) plus don’t forget lots of city/town folk put grub out specifically for them. Some German cities have very large numbers of deer and wild boar in their parks and on the streets at night.

Personally I like to see foxes about town, don’t get me wrong, ex hunter and have shot many in the past around pheasant pens and game grounds. I think it’s neat that they have wised up to free grub on the streets. Won’t be long until they are ordering it by Uber, survival is the name of the game.

When I lived in New York I used see squirrels everyday in the neighbourhood.

A lot of trees in Queens though. I posted this pic back in the wildlife forum years ago.

We are completely overrun with village idiot TD's.... would have been a far more accurate headline 🙄

ok I am not currently in Ireland, but I know first hand the damage deer can do when they jump in front of a car … they are skittish.. at 30 mph destroyed a car (new) here 20k worth of damage.

i love waking up and seeing them each morning they are beautiful animals. But the destruction and deaths they cause here, means that they have to be culled. They breed incredibly fast. They carry Lyme disease. They eat gardens, crops etc.

i cannot say they are a massive problem in Ireland as I have never seen one in the wild in Ireland.

foxes though? Everywhere.., even in the underground parking space in Dublin.