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Isabella and Lola Koupparis were nine months old when they were mauled in their bedroom by a fox that got in through open doors at their home in Hackney, east London. Isabella suffered deep cuts to her arm, and Lola's face was bitten.
The survey of 1,000 people found that a third would no longer encourage wild animals into the garden. Almost half will not even feed birds or other animals in the park.
Conservationists are concerned that people have become afraid of nature, especially in cities, where foxes and birds such as magpies have been blamed for making mess and noise.

My garden would freak them out every evening before they go to roost my garden fills up with hundreds of starlings. It makes Hitchcock's Birds look tame.

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FFS people have no spine in this country god knows how they'd react if we still had bears and wolves.

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FFS people have no spine in this country god knows how they'd react if we still had bears and wolves.


Good plan. Let's reintroduce bears and wolves. That'll sort the softies out. 8-)

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adidan wrote:
FFS people have no spine in this country god knows how they'd react if we still had bears and wolves.


Good plan. Let's reintroduce bears and wolves. That'll sort the softies out. 8-)


Aren’t wolves planned for reintroduction?

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Foxes? and Wolves? And Bears? Oh MY!


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We had a rogue bear here, the first wild bear that wandered back into Germany in a couple of decades, but he was mauling farm animals in Germany, Austria and Italy (wandering back and forth) and they killed him, in Austria.

This year, we have a rogue wolf in Bavaria and Tirol causing havoc.

I fart in the general direction of your foxes! /monty_python

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We had a rogue bear here, the first wild bear that wandered back into Germany in a couple of decades, but he was mauling farm animals in Germany, Austria and Italy (wandering back and forth) and they killed him, in Austria.

This year, we have a rogue wolf in Bavaria and Tirol causing havoc.

I fart in the general direction of your foxes! /monty_python

Yes way too many Brits are wimps now.

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The two young girls mentioned were nine months old when they were mauled by a fox, yes.

They were also nine months old when their parents, who were downstairs, left them unsupervised upstairs WITH THE BACK DOOR OPEN!

It's not the fox's fault that the parents are idiots.

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Thing is, this doesn't strike me as being particularly irresponsible. I'm making a touch of an assumption that the babies had been put to bed and weren't simply left upstairs for laughs of course, but other than that it's something I would have done quite happily.

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Thing is, this doesn't strike me as being particularly irresponsible. I'm making a touch of an assumption that the babies had been put to bed and weren't simply left upstairs for laughs of course, but other than that it's something I would have done quite happily.


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It's not hard to think that you left the childs room door open the better hear them or to let air flow through the room, the back door was open while cooking or to let air in and you wandered off to the living room to watch 15 minutes or coronationendersdale...


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adidan wrote:
FFS people have no spine in this country god knows how they'd react if we still had bears and wolves.


Well we didn't seem to like them much in the first place, hence they're not still here. ;)

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I wonder how Velociraptors would truly cope in the modern world..?

I feel a "mad scientist" moment coming on. Does anyone have a DNA sample I could clone?

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HeatherKay wrote:
adidan wrote:
FFS people have no spine in this country god knows how they'd react if we still had bears and wolves.


Good plan. Let's reintroduce bears and wolves. That'll sort the softies out. 8-)


Great idea! We could train them to eat chavs and Tory politicians - solve the UK's problems in a stroke!

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I wonder how Velociraptors would truly cope in the modern world..?

I feel a "mad scientist" moment coming on. Does anyone have a DNA sample I could clone?

Let them lose in the House of Commons and solve the expenses problem forever. ;)

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FFS people have no spine in this country god knows how they'd react if we still had bears and wolves.
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