2 fox's attacked.... at 3:30 in the afternoon

[JenEric Farms]

"Rabies is an unusual virus because it never enters the blood stream. Rabies travels along the nerves from the site of infection, the bite, into the brain, and then concentrates in the salivary glands. This brain infection is why you see unusual behavior in rabid animals. This method of travel makes rabies undetectable in a live animal because rabies is diagnosed by examining the brain microscopically and immunohistochemically (using rabies antibody) to demonstrate the presence of the virus."

So...to say they won't shoot unless it is rabid is a weird statement. To identify Rabies, the animal has to be dead.

 

[Achickenwrangler#1]

what jen eric said
animal control - scoff

 

[sourland]

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Nobody was bitten....?

"Sue got the chicks inside and then the fox grabbed her" depends upon to whom 'her' is referencing - I took it that 'her' was Sue.

 

[wyoDreamer]

Saying around here goes like this:
Cat is candy to a fox;
Fox is candy to a coyote;
After Coyotes eat all the fox, they'll eat your cat.

Neighbors have lost 3 cats to the fox, and now that the fox is gone, the coyotes chased their last cat home on Friday night. The neighbor heard the coyotes yipping outside, they were about 30 yards from the house - he knows the distance because they were infront of the bow target he had set up.
He opened the back door and the cat came running in!

 

[ailurophile23]

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Well that's new (and scary) to me - foxes taking out cats - yikes! Convenient that it is fox season. And while I agree that taking out these two may not solve your problem completely, these two obviously have a taste for your chickens and any foxes that come in to replace these might not. Or perhaps future foxes could be deterred with electric fencing. Good luck and once again, I am so sorry for your losses.

 

[aprophet]

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[aprophet]

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well we are sure they were foxs they have been coming around the last few weeks... they are red foxs big fluffy tails...

and i looked it up online, it is fox hunting season from sept 1-march 31 and there is no bag limit on them so if we have to they will be gone....

check trapping season too sometimes it is different and longer also check with the game dept about wild animals killing stock/poiultry a lot of time the seasons are not applicable for such a condition as this

we are pretty sure we know where there den is.

 

[aprophet]

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the kits are grown and on their own here

 

[brahmakid11]

you need to choose one of these options

1 hire someone to get rid of them

2 get an ar-15 and shoot away at them

3 get traps and catch them and relocate or shoot them

i would prefer option 2 that is what i would do

 

[woodmort]

Yeah the kits should all be grown by this time of year but the foxes certainly must be hungry to be working in pairs during the day. While I'm surprised that a fox would attack a full grown cat when chickens were available it doesn't surprise me. Last year about this time of year a woman in the Binghamton NY area was attacked while walking to her mail box by and nonrabid fox which persisted in the attack. On the other hand they could be coyotes, unless one is used to seeing them ID's can be mess up, especially when under attack. Either way, if they are aggressive like that they should be removed if not by you by a licensed trapper.