More fox calls since London attacks
PEST control and wildlife experts from the Hailsham area have received more and more calls about foxes after two babies were attacked by a fox in London.
Graeme Carter, who runs GS Pest Control and Pest Proofing in Hailsham, said the firm was getting three or four calls a week – although none so far from the town itself.
Some of the callers were seeing 'large numbers' of foxes where they live after the publicised London attacks, he said.
Mr Carter said: "Some of them have grandchildren and want to know about letting them in the garden, or their kids, or their pets.
"At the end of the day it is down to education – if you surprise a fox in a flower bed by sticking your hand in you are going to get bitten but if you leave it alone it will move."
Some 35 calls had been received since the London incident by East Sussex Wildlife and Rescue Ambulance Service in Stone Cross.
Trevor Weeks, founder, said people were calling out of fear foxes were visiting their area, what to do with tame foxes which visit gardens and come up to patio doors and whether it was appropriate to feed foxes.
Mr Weeks said: "These people are not necessarily anti-fox and most of them do not want any harm to come to the foxes.
"About one in five of the callers are rude and would like the foxes murdered or caught and released elsewhere and have no regard for the foxes welfare.
"A number of these rude people have been quite threatening towards us saying things like, 'unless you come we will poison them' or 'if you don't remove them then I'll have them all shot'.
"We do not give in to threats."
Taming and feeding foxes were not fair on the animals, Mr Weeks said.
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