Lock up your chooks!

[Mallard]

Big enough to eat a cat?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/ne ... y-cat.html

[Steve the Gas]

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One advantage - it would have to be a bigger hole in defences - for it to get in.
Worrying though..............

[kate egg]

I saw that too (Daily Mail) - very very scary. It really is becoming time to sort the urban fox problem out, they are not cuddly little Beatrix Potter creatures

[poppydog66]

Its huge,

[jannie]

That is so scary... we often see a fox when we take the dog for his evening walk....I think I'd have heart failure if I saw one that size..

[wendy]

I wonder if the vixen had mated with a domesticated dog ? maybe a lab or something. That is one BIG fox.
I did know someone whose female dog was mated by a fox, with very pretty offspring.
Wendy

[ock]

I wonder if the vixen had mated with a domesticated dog ? maybe a lab or something. That is one BIG fox.
I did know someone whose female dog was mated by a fox, with very pretty offspring.
Wendy

I don`t think a fox and dog can breed though, they are too different, dogs, wolves, jackals, dingos etc can breed as they have the same number of chromosomes, but a fox has far less



I didn`t google all that, I knew it all off the top of my head

[Annie]

I didn`t google all that, I knew it all off the top of my head

Good job you wear a bandana then helps keep all that info warm

[Gwenoakes]

Gee wizz, that is one BIG fox Mallard.

[Benny&Co]

Wow that's one huge fox!

As it happens whilst we were out walking Ben the other day, we saw a really large swan that had been attacked.... we wondered if that was by a fox too

[Mo]

I wonder if the vixen had mated with a domesticated dog ? maybe a lab or something. That is one BIG fox.
I did know someone whose female dog was mated by a fox, with very pretty offspring.
Wendy

I don`t think a fox and dog can breed though, they are too different, dogs, wolves, jackals, dingos etc can breed as they have the same number of chromosomes, but a fox has far less



I didn`t google all that, I knew it all off the top of my head

But if Wendy says she knows someone where it did happen, then maybe they can and it's just the offspring that are sterile????

[Shlugh]

That is a big beastie!

I wouldn't want the dogs meeting him on a dark night.

Red foxes have 34 chromosomes and domestic dogs 72. It is considered that they can and have been documented to ocassionally mate, but that it is biologically impossible for them to produce offspring.

I knew a degree in biology and environmental science would come in handy some day. Lol!

Shlugh xx