fox

heya

i suppose, to be specific (or if you are pedantic) i should really have called this post foxes, for there is more than one featured. two, look you see. well, perhaps not look at the moment, as i appear to be having some issues adding images. let me go and have a cigarette (sorry) whilst it considers thinking about letting me add them, then. no, it seems to be having none of it, so i shall just have to try doing this later. rather than, you know, earlier. 

oh right, working now. but be warned my image taking (or if you will photography) skills have not really got any better. there is only so much of this i can blame on the camera. 

so, as regular (or frequent) readers will know, i appear to spend a good deal of time in that there London (innit). due to this i am able to witness one of the issues (or problems) that they have, and which becomes national news, because London. you may well have guessed which one, but to be clear indeed i write of the proliferation of foxes wandering around. 

quite often i will see them just mooching about, presumably on a quest for food. that's the foxes on such a quest, not moi, but yes i do indeed eat from time to time. it is somewhat peculiar, and certainly unexpected, when i find myself stood in a street and one just comes wandering by, strolling along as if of a more domesticated nature like a cat or dog. 

what's the reason for such a widespread number of foxes on the streets of London? it would be wonderful to blame that awful, terrible mayor of theirs, but i don't think it is his fault. the ban on fox hunting is something that hopefully most would agree with (ideally all), it was not (so far as i am aware) replaced with any sort of plan on how to limit or curtail the fox population. given a free hand, then, or what have you (paw, perhaps), i can only suspect fox numbers have increased as a result, or consequence, of this. 

yes, certainly, the constant building going on in and around London (innit) likely pushes them out into areas they would not normally roam. but, as i said, i am no expert, i have gone done no research, i am merely speculating. now that i am firmly (if not well) into my 50s i appreciate that i am expected to have extreme, unsubstantiated and vocal opinions on everything, yet i find myself leaning more towards a life of if i don't know enough about something then i am probably not going to comment as a matter of fact, rather confessing to it being a vaguely considered view. 

have i been attacked or "spooked" by a fox? not really. well, yes, there was that one incident where one probably nearly ate me, but in retrospect i think that was my imagination at play. if anything these foxes seem rather skittish and, perhaps wisely, very wary of people. there's been one or two reports of foxes apparently "sneaking" into people's homes and attacking people. one would hope that someone is not making such things up, but no i am not going to do any research. 

am i going to be making a post on the subject of fox sightings an annual thing? probably not. well, if i make it into the next year and see one (and am able to capture an image or two) then maybe, but alas it is not something i can commit to. just look at this post and the other one (link again) and pretend it is the first time you have seen it. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!