IN MY vicinity – Poole Old Town – if ever I see a fox, or foxes, usually with its young, it is when it gets dark and they have to leave their lair to hunt for food.

They are more frightened of humans than we are of them.

So, I get very angry when I read of a cull to control them, when, in fact, they are not vicious animals.

They do not breed like rabbits. You only have to travel up and down the local roads and more often than not you will see the beautiful tan and white coats of the corpses of the foxes hit by the cars while hunting for food.

In the recent reports about babies being attacked in their homes, why are doors left open with infants inside?

And more importantly, are we forgetting that the foxes were here before the land for many houses was acquired?

And thank God it wasn’t a Bull Terrier or Rottweiler that got into the house of that baby recently. I dread to think what may have happened.

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