Foxes Live: Wild in the City – episode 2 on Channel 4 tonight
Foxes Live: Wild in the City is an interactive natural history event broadcast live from Battersea Power Station and around the country, carrying out the biggest ever nationwide study into urban foxes in the UK. Using cutting-edge technology, this ambitious project will assemble footage from state-of-the-art tracking technology, camera rigs and user-generated content to provide a fox-eye view of our cities.
No one knows for sure how many foxes live in the UK or whether the population is growing. There’s thought to be between 30,000 and 40,000 living in cities and between 200,000 and 250,000 living in the countryside. Some cities are thought to have as many as 27 foxes per square mile. GPS tracking will provide urban fox territory sizes in different housing densities and, with the public’s help, Channel 4 can make the most comprehensive estimate of the UK urban fox population. The second episode will look at changing public attitudes to the urban fox and will focus on how foxes interact with pets. Veterinary expert and co-presenter Mark Evans investigates a fox attack on a Chihuahua called Lexi.
She had severe bite wounds to her neck, which needed stitches and spent three days recovering at the surgery. The show also features a pet shop owner who became so fond of his fox that he decided to give her a flat above the shop. Miss Snooks must be the most pampered fox the world. She has her own TV, leather sofa, double bed and bathroom fitted with her own mirror. Each night Steve shuts his pet shop, goes up to the flat and spends several hours’ quality time with her, before returning home to his wife later in the evening.
Tonight, 8PM, Channel 4
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hi i live in northampton quite near to delapre abbey.on saturday night at 2.30 am i was awoke by awefull nioses in my garden i rushed out to find 3 foxes 1 large 2 small viciously attacking my chickens my 3 dogs were doing there best to scare them away.i have had chickens for 16 years and never had foxes attack my chickens.i have never witnessed such vicious attacks.they just kept coming back maming them then leaving them to take the ones they had away.im trying to tell myself its nature but the vile attack i witnessed makes me feel sick.
I carry on seeing a fox that walks down my road and jumps into another garden sometimes it appears in the daylight I saw it about 7pm just walking down the road and my son said he has seen It a few times
I am a huge fox lover they are so clever and resourceful having to live alongside us in our cities yet keeping almost a parallal existance how can the haters feel like they do who gave us the right to label them vermin and vicious. Foxes are only hunting to survive the comment from the lady who witnessed her chickens being attacked I do understand what she says but to the foxes its food and the reason they maimed the ones they couldn’t take away was because they never know where the next meal will come from so its their way of stocking their larder just as we do at Tescos. Don’t forget the sad fact that most urban foxes dont live past 18 months thanks to us lot yet wild foxes can live to 8/10 years thats a huge difference!!!! So you could say that we are the killers
It is completely illegal to release a fox back into the wild as they are classed as verim and the law of British land is that no verim should be released!! Exactly the same as grey squirrels!!
A fox does not kill 20plus chickens just to stock up!! They kill for the fun of killing!! Research ur fact first!!
Deborah, foxes are NOT classed as “vermin” (check with DEFRA) Grey squirrels are not native to Britain therefore cannot be released but the Red Fox is native and can be! Foxes do not surplus kill as every single bird killed will be collected and cached for “lean times” which is an excellent survival strategy!! Surplus killing is fat, rich, greedy men on a grouse moor killing purely for “pleasure” the surplus birds are then thrown in a hole in the ground along with their empty champagne bottles!!! Chickens, rabbits etc can be protected by suitable fencing as I have protected mine for years with no problems whatsoever!! X
My wife and I feed our local foxes every night and we get no problems whatsoever with them We have a cat and on many occasions we have watched her chase a fox out of our garden. we both feel that the only reason people call foxes vermin is to try to justify their sick lust to harm these wonderful animals. The hunters lampers etc who set out to kill foxes are wicked and will im sure get paid back for their acts of disgusting barbaric cruelty we certainly hope so.
I have been feeding a Vixen and her regular yearly cubs now for eight years,and have no problems. They love all the food I provide,and rarely spoil my garden with digging holes, or leaving their faeces in the garden.
I missed all the programmes on TV as I was out of the country,but saw the final episode,yesterday,I was so impressed at all the fox lovers,I knew I was not on my own.