Maimed by a killer rabid fox - the TV programme

[off_again]

andymadmak said:

AshVX220 said:

Also,
I don't buy the fact that a fox came in to the house when they had a dog. The dog would go absolutely apest as soon as it picked up the foxes scent surely?

I'm not convinced it was a fox at all, not even a little bit.

As has been mentioned the fox hunting lobby will be pushing on this for all it's worth.

And why would they lie?
Their kids are maimed. If it was their dog that did it I'm damn sure it would have been put to sleep by now.

Expert in urban fox behaviour are you?

I've seen dog fox challenge my large and very well teeth equipped Samoyed dog in my own back garden. Foxes do not always "leg it" when confronted by dogs or humans. - I have first hand experience of that!

Your desire to push your own agenda and limited knowledge forward in this is coloured no doubt by your obvious anti fox hunting stance. Fair enough, but these people (those kids) have suffered terribly, and they don't need muppets like you, and those creeps in the pro furry vermin brigade who sent them abusive messages, making their suffering any worse by casting cheap, ill informed aspertions (sp?)

We had some bods round here claiming that foxes were not vermin, were kind to other animals etc. All went to hell in a hand basket when most of the missing cats were found (in bits) in foxy's den. Some people just wont face facts. Foxes are nasty, vicious animals that kill for fun and WILL take that opportunity whenever they can. Pet Rabbits, cats, small dogs, domestic chickens and lambs are known prey. Whats so different that you find it impossible to believe that they would attack human babies when given the opportunity / were hungry enough?
And if the family had fed them, (no evidence of that whatsoever) then they paid a pretty horrible price for their largesse and Disneyfied view of these nast creatures.........

Whoa there chap..... calm down, its only an adve.... sorry PH post....

Whilst I agree that there are some nutters in the world, I am still not convinced by this whole fox thing. As far as I am aware, there has been no evidence of something like this occurring before. Not saying that it couldn't be a first time, but it does put it at the other end of likely - more like highly UNlikely, possible though.

Add to this that they are now making money through a TV programme, media exposure and interviews. I am happy to be proven wrong of course, and thats fine. But the last time that we saw something with kids, money and media attention, the people involved got time in pokey (that chav couple up North with the kidnap thing - forgotten the names involved). Current and recent history has taught me to be a massive cynic.

...and I still think that the McCanns did it....

[AshVX220]

andymadmak said:

AshVX220 said:

Also,
I don't buy the fact that a fox came in to the house when they had a dog. The dog would go absolutely apest as soon as it picked up the foxes scent surely?

I'm not convinced it was a fox at all, not even a little bit.

As has been mentioned the fox hunting lobby will be pushing on this for all it's worth.

And why would they lie?
Their kids are maimed. If it was their dog that did it I'm damn sure it would have been put to sleep by now.

Expert in urban fox behaviour are you?

I've seen dog fox challenge my large and very well teeth equipped Samoyed dog in my own back garden. Foxes do not always "leg it" when confronted by dogs or humans. - I have first hand experience of that!

Your desire to push your own agenda and limited knowledge forward in this is coloured no doubt by your obvious anti fox hunting stance. Fair enough, but these people (those kids) have suffered terribly, and they don't need muppets like you, and those creeps in the pro furry vermin brigade who sent them abusive messages, making their suffering any worse by casting cheap, ill informed aspertions (sp?)

We had some bods round here claiming that foxes were not vermin, were kind to other animals etc. All went to hell in a hand basket when most of the missing cats were found (in bits) in foxy's den. Some people just wont face facts. Foxes are nasty, vicious animals that kill for fun and WILL take that opportunity whenever they can. Pet Rabbits, cats, small dogs, domestic chickens and lambs are known prey. Whats so different that you find it impossible to believe that they would attack human babies when given the opportunity / were hungry enough?
And if the family had fed them, (no evidence of that whatsoever) then they paid a pretty horrible price for their largesse and Disneyfied view of these nast creatures.........

Firstly, step down off the soap box. I have no view on fox hunting, either for or against. However, I do believe that the pro group will be loving the current media attention.

Secondly, am I to assume that you believe I'm some sort of animal rights protestor?

Thirdly, who know's why they would lie. I just said I don't buy it.

So, to re-iterate, get off your soap box!

[andymadmak]

AshVX220 said:

So, to re-iterate, get off your soap box!

Says the man with just as much Cussons Imperial Leather on the soles of his shoes......

[AshVX220]

andymadmak said:

AshVX220 said:

So, to re-iterate, get off your soap box!

Says the man with just as much Cussons Imperial Leather on the soles of his shoes......

Like I'm the only one on this forum standing on that particular soap box.

[Nimbus]

good to see its made the main page on the bbc news website all day tho..

nothing to do with Panorama showing some nonsense about it tonight then..

those are some ugly babies too..

Edited by Nimbus on Thursday 1st July 13:28

[paddyhasneeds]

Is it me or or those kids fking ugly?

I'll feel bad if someone points out they have something other than fox bites but they just look "lumpy".

[bonsai]

That dreadful woman's enunciation makes me wish the fox had bitten her instead.

[ExChrispy Porker]

I bet the nursery would have done something if they knew they had a nest of rats under their classroom floor, but it was foxes so they let them be. Until one of the children was bitten. Bravo.

What on earth is wrong with these people?

[FourWheelDrift]

It was probably a cat instead

[Marf]

FourWheelDrift said:

It was probably a cat instead

The lesser known urban puma perhaps?

[wiggy001]

So, a fox came in the house, plodded up the stairs, into the bedroom, jumped in one cot to attack the first child then over into the second cot to attack the second kid, and then just sat there when the parents came up screaming and shouting?

Methinks not.

[Bing o]

paddyhasneeds said:

Is it me or or those kids fking ugly?

I'll feel bad if someone points out they have something other than fox bites but they just look "lumpy".

They'd need plastic surgery in later life anyway by the looks of them...

[ExChrispy Porker]

wiggy001 said:

So, a fox came in the house, plodded up the stairs, into the bedroom, jumped in one cot to attack the first child then over into the second cot to attack the second kid, and then just sat there when the parents came up screaming and shouting?

Methinks not.

What do you think happened?

[dandarez]

All this exposure and reporting and still nobody seems to know or ask what dog they own (or maybe that should now be 'owned'?).

[Mojooo]

PH is full of foxing idiots.

[7mike]

ExChrispy Porker said:

wiggy001 said:

So, a fox came in the house, plodded up the stairs, into the bedroom, jumped in one cot to attack the first child then over into the second cot to attack the second kid, and then just sat there when the parents came up screaming and shouting?

Methinks not.

What do you think happened?

Fox came in the house, plodded up the stairs, into the bedroom, watched the family dog mauling the kids then said; " it's different but it's not a hen"

[wiggy001]

7mike said:

ExChrispy Porker said:

wiggy001 said:

So, a fox came in the house, plodded up the stairs, into the bedroom, jumped in one cot to attack the first child then over into the second cot to attack the second kid, and then just sat there when the parents came up screaming and shouting?

Methinks not.

What do you think happened?

Fox came in the house, plodded up the stairs, into the bedroom, watched the family dog mauling the kids then said; " it's different but it's not a hen"

More likely IMHO!

Incredible how a few more of these stories are now coming out of the woodwork. Of course, if their dog did it they would just be another chav family whose children were attacked by the dog. Swap dog for fox and you can get a bit of sympathy and cash from the papers.

Cynical? Moi?

[s3fella]

Did / do they actually have a dog?.

Surely they would have tested the wounds for dna to confirm the attacking animal?

Also, I am sure I saw a glimpse of a pic of the fox actually in their house, by them French Windows, although maybe it was outside and the angle didn't show it.

I'm thinking it was a fox attack, but that maybe these muppets used to encourage the foxes to their house, even potentially inside. And now are "crying wolf" as it were.

I feel sorry for the kids, pretty ugly genes, and the parents seem like a pair of muppets. The guy needs taking outside for a "little tickle...."
As does that bloke who was married to that tasty Russian Spy, who now has Max Clifford on side....

[CatherineJ]

For me, if you have had threats against you and end up needing Police Protection, you don't then go and stir it up again with a TV program.

Just my opinion.

Edited by CatherineJ on Friday 2nd July 17:15

[FourWheelDrift]

Marf said:

FourWheelDrift said:

It was probably a cat instead

The lesser known urban puma perhaps?

Could have been the Urban Tiger.


Or worse, the Urban Panda.