Easy-pickings for the foxes

Let's get something straight, Hugh, foxes were around long before Littlehampton was built and if humans were not so wasteful, foxes would not be frequenting the towns and cities as much as they do (it is easy-pickings for them).

It is a bizarre mindset that so many people have gained about foxes.

They seem to be under the assumption that if a fox makes a noise in the middle of the night or defecates on the path, they have done it on purpose to annoy the humans. And as for the cats, a timid fox is going to attack a cat only if it strays too near its cubs '“ if another human came near your baby, what would you do?

One of the things that really annoys me, though, is how people seem to have an inability to put two and two together, for example, Mr Neve says a fox decapitated his pet rabbit (which will only have got killed because he did not enclose it well enough), but many would not think twice about eating a rabbit stew!

Although it is a slightly absurd thing to say, I do feel there is an element of fox-based fascism in all of this. For someone to take over some already inhabited land and then criticise everything the earlier inhabitants do is something many evil humans have done to other humans throughout history.

I think it is about time these people devoted their time to some more important causes, instead of coming up with all these absurdities pertaining to something that cannot be gracefully sorted.

Kit Bradshaw

East Preston

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