nnbreeder
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I'm sitting here this evening listening to the Coyotes howl and yip. It's when all goes quiet that you have to worry.
I found this website on Fox http://www.thefoxwebsite.org/index.html and here is a little passage from it.
The total number of foxes living in British cities is not known as there are no recent estimates. Sarcoptic mange, a disease that affects foxes, has spread throughout Britain and caused a decline in fox numbers in many areas. In contrast, foxes have expanded in some other areas such as eastern England.
The last estimate available of 33,000 adult foxes in urban areas at the end of winter (i.e. just before the cubs are born) dates back to the 1980s but it is probable that declines following mange and expansions into new areas cancel each other out and that urban fox numbers are little changed in Britain as a whole. If we add this number to the number of foxes estimated in rural environment, the total number of adult foxes in urban and rural Britain is about 258,000 at the end of the winter. Each year approximately 425,000 cubs are born in spring.
relocation of wild animals is never a good situation. Most of the time the animal is put into another's territory and it will either be ran off or killed by the ones that claim the territory.
As far as electric fencing goes it is a good deterrent but no matter how hot the energiser is it will only shock bare skin, not through hair. Premier fencing makes a scent cup that one can hang on a fence. It is made of metal and when an animal goes to sniff it they get a strong zap on the nose from the fence.
If the energiser is one that pulses no matter where you are along the fence you can actually hear the fence when it pulses. I agree though the animals can feel the electricity without touching the fence.
I found this website on Fox http://www.thefoxwebsite.org/index.html and here is a little passage from it.
The total number of foxes living in British cities is not known as there are no recent estimates. Sarcoptic mange, a disease that affects foxes, has spread throughout Britain and caused a decline in fox numbers in many areas. In contrast, foxes have expanded in some other areas such as eastern England.
The last estimate available of 33,000 adult foxes in urban areas at the end of winter (i.e. just before the cubs are born) dates back to the 1980s but it is probable that declines following mange and expansions into new areas cancel each other out and that urban fox numbers are little changed in Britain as a whole. If we add this number to the number of foxes estimated in rural environment, the total number of adult foxes in urban and rural Britain is about 258,000 at the end of the winter. Each year approximately 425,000 cubs are born in spring.
relocation of wild animals is never a good situation. Most of the time the animal is put into another's territory and it will either be ran off or killed by the ones that claim the territory.
As far as electric fencing goes it is a good deterrent but no matter how hot the energiser is it will only shock bare skin, not through hair. Premier fencing makes a scent cup that one can hang on a fence. It is made of metal and when an animal goes to sniff it they get a strong zap on the nose from the fence.
If the energiser is one that pulses no matter where you are along the fence you can actually hear the fence when it pulses. I agree though the animals can feel the electricity without touching the fence.
