The Most Amazing Thing Happened Tonight

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 03:20

We are taking a late night dip in the pool and Jan said Lee the fox is drinking from the pool.



My god what a beautiful creature, almost tame, we think it is a young Vixen, the 5 cats did not seem troubled at all by her presence.



It had two bowls of cat food, much to the cats disgust.



The Fox actaully came to us and let us fuss her, we have some incredible photo's but I do not know how to post them I will send them to our friend Zerochlor tomorrow and ask him to post them, you will not believe them.



It spent about 30 minutes with us.



We think she may have a damaged front left leg, Can she be treated I wonder?



I think she will now be a regular visitor.

misunderstood


Joined: 08/04/2011
Posts: 1004

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 06:42

How wonderful. I do envy you. Send her round to our house.

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 06:55

i went to "foxy chicks a go go" - had a couple of take a ways too......

flamefabs


Joined: 09/07/2011
Posts: 193

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 07:10

i think envy nn not jl.





barry d

Ralph96



Joined: 01/07/2008
Posts: 531

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 07:13

My sister worked for Basil Brush...She had him charged for sexual discrimanation...He was always grabbing her...BUM BUM.

negativenick


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Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 07:19

mess 5 - skillfully kept "on topic" - well done....................

UPNorth


Joined: 20/01/2009
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 07:43

Hi Johnny Lee, you don't happen to live in Lapta by any chance?

Last week we were up in the mountains behind Baspinar, a fox with a 'poorly' left paw approached us. It seemed very tame,came up very close jumped into the Jeep and had a nose around.We fed her a tin a of Tuna and gave her some water.Went back the next night but she wasn't around. Just thinking it may be the same one! We also took a number of pictures.

Hippo


Joined: 02/02/2007
Posts: 2070

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 08:01

Foxes-vermin you wont be so happy after they have raided your bin, eaten your favourite pussy and sh.t all over your patio

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 09:15

Msg. 1, we have a fox up here in our part of Alsancak and it drinks most mornings from the pool of the empty house next door. At first it was nervous of our 4 dogs, but now it realises that they can't get out of our garden and just lays down on its tum drinking away. Some locals further up the hill feed it most evenings. (Having said that, THEY ALSO FEED SOME RATS!!)



T1

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 09:21

Hippo by your criteria most humans would be classed as vermin.

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 12:47

UPNorth, yes we liive high up in Baspinar, Sounds like the same one,



We had lots of foxes come to our garden in the UK, but have not seen so many here, I wonder how come it is so tame ?



We don't class them has vermin, no different to a dog really.



I willl get the Pics posted as soon as I can.

zerochlor


Joined: 03/04/2009
Posts: 4024

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 19:15

Amazing phots JL. ive met some foxes in my time,but non as friendly as this little fella !



http://s847.photobucket.com/albums/ab37/zerochlor/johnny%20lees%20fox/

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 19:24

Thank You Zerochlor, you never fail to amaze me with your computer genius.

zerochlor


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Posts: 4024

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 19:29

Its very easy.



Even you can do it

hulyatoon


Joined: 30/05/2011
Posts: 21

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 19:34

we have too many foxes in birmingham, at night you have to slow down for them in the road. is it that many in cyprus now?

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 19:48

No still fairly rare in TRNC, thats why this is very suprising.

stelee77


Joined: 06/06/2011
Posts: 557

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 19:52

you can teach me some time

bazzagirl


Joined: 09/05/2010
Posts: 525

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 20:31

absolutely amazing any creature has as much right as us to be here on the plaanet earth, what an awesome experieence, as for shit, the worst offenders of contaminating the world are the so called superior race human beings, live and love life we only have one go at it!!!!!

Sid447


Joined: 15/05/2009
Posts: 141

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 21:45

"Foxes-vermin you wont be so happy after they have raided your bin, eaten your favourite pussy and sh.t all over your patio..."



People took this attitude before, upset natures balance and were overrun with rabbits, rats, voles and mice etc.

Everything has a right to live without indiscriminate killing and people upsetting delicate balance that mother nature provided for us in the first place.

The only thing that consistency muck's it all up is mankind.

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 584

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 22:06

Well said Sid...... It's not OUR planet and as I often say when people confront me with spiders, snakes and other perceived unpleasantries, "Everything's got to be somewhere"

Tootie


Joined: 28/08/2008
Posts: 2037

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 22:33

Foxes were introduced to the island by the Brits years ago.

But respect to them for over coming the hunters each year!

The Foxes also.

metin


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Posts: 1588

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 22:35

Wonderful photos......

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 22:56

Tootie the Cyprus fox is endemic and was not bought by the British,



Look on the net here is one of many examples



"The first example of the introduction of the fox into a new habitat by humans seems to be Neolithic Cyprus. Stone carvings representing foxes have been found in the early settlement of Göbekli Tepe in eastern Turkey.

"

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 23:25

@ msg 23, Pugwash: Are foxes endemic..?! No way! (How nice to read your post* about Cyprus - I really mean it!). Cyprus has been an island for ± ten million years. The most important endemic animals - bones found, places known - in Cyprus are mice, bats and Genetta plestictoides (a small kind of genet cat), a dwarf hippothamus (Phanourious minor) and a dwarf elephant (Elephas cypriotes). All extinct because of man. NO bones are found to suggest that some kind of fox could be endemic.



* I'll be pleased to join a thread where we could discuss the C44 people that should be extinct but, alas, are not.

Pugwash


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Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 23:46

DC endemic can mean,



"Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, group, field, area, or environment; native to an area or scope"



Whilst they are one can say not originally native to Cyprus as the neolithic stone carvings appear to show they can be considered to be so in the sense of the word.



The word was used here,



See final article 2001 Cyprus mail



http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cmnews/2001/01-01-09.cmnews.html

Pugwash


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 1797

Message Posted:
26/07/2011 23:57

Worth looking here for an official view where they say,



"The (Vulpes vulpes indutus) is an endemic subspecies

of Cyprus and the only carnivorous mammal of the island.

It can be found in many areas even though its population

has been constantly declining over the last two decades.

Ecologists consider the fox a useful animal with an

important role in the ecosystems. In Cyprus, there is

still great prejudice against this sympathetic animal."



http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/fd/fd.nsf/0/738758396129AE4EC22575E600260A1B/$file/The%20fauna%20of%20Cyprus.pdf

BoTanica


Joined: 22/12/2009
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Message Posted:
27/07/2011 09:15

Lovely pictures - thank you. Her ears are enormous - she is beautiful.

flutterby


Joined: 11/01/2008
Posts: 214

Message Posted:
27/07/2011 09:40

Wow!! What an experience!!!

Jetski


Joined: 21/07/2008
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Message Posted:
27/07/2011 11:10

DC- there is no proof that man was responsible for the demise of the dwarf hippo. Although they disappeared from the fossil record around the same time as man arrived, no remains have been found that indicate they were hunted. The dwarf elephant was extinct thousands of years before man appeared on the island.

babydoll


Joined: 27/07/2011
Posts: 140

Message Posted:
27/07/2011 16:13

lock up your chickens

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 23:15

Thank You for all the great comments about these the photos and the Fox, everywhere we have been people have commented, (all good and positive and caring).



We are suprised by how much interest it has created.

Sugarpuffbear


Joined: 14/05/2010
Posts: 64

Message Posted:
28/07/2011 23:43

Foxes are vermin! When you have seen some 30 chickens killed by one, some with just their heads off you would not wish to make them pets ! Not so bad if they only killed what they wanted to eat, but they don't. One ate 4 cats from near us this last hard winter in the UK. They have been known to enter houses when encouraged in an urban area and biting young children asleep.

In the life cycle of the animal world what eats a fox the answer nothing, so if they are not controlled they will become more of a danger to humans.

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
29/07/2011 10:06

I am right in thinking that pet dogs also attack and very often savage and kill people and also cats.



Some of friends came to visit us and they had their dog in the car, we said you are welcome to bring the dog , they explained it would not be wise due to the fact that we had cats and the dog did not like cats and often hurt them.



I think foxes are controlled here by the Hunters. They are very rare here.



Fair point about the chickens, but then again us Humans kill millions and millions a year.

Sugarpuffbear


Joined: 14/05/2010
Posts: 64

Message Posted:
29/07/2011 12:18

Actually I was wrong when I said nothing eats foxes, lions and the large cats do, but humans have almost exterminated these so now foxes are free to be the kings of wildlife today.

andre514


Joined: 05/10/2010
Posts: 763

Message Posted:
29/07/2011 14:05

here is my inane post of the week:



....humans are a top predator, and often kill for fun



but as regards unlicensed firearms, price phillip has said

more people are murdered with golf clubs

wattys


Joined: 07/10/2008
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
29/07/2011 14:17

I have just spent over £200 on treatment for one of my labradors due to the fox, they come into the garden pee up the bushes and the dogs get a mange desease from rubbing against it, my dog was down to bare flesh on her back due to the dirty fithy shite creatures.

The only place for a fox is on a christmas card scene.

JohhnyLee


Joined: 25/04/2009
Posts: 2495

Message Posted:
29/07/2011 15:50

I knew a guy wo died from viels disease from scratching his hand on a rose thorn whilst working in his garden.



The rat did not do it on purpose, he just needed a wee.



Many dogs wee and whatever else all over gardens, and I dont think their waste products are very healthy.