Then ask a fox an algebra question, and see if it gets it right.

Sorry, but that is an incredibly naieve answer, other animals do not have the same level of intelligence overall, to be able to attibute qualities to existence that we do. We have the ability to create theories, understand empathy, and design things that make our lives how we want them.

Yes, some animals have some of the same ability, but if they had it to the same extent, why are we top of the food chain?

Flies carry diseases, when they sit on a pile of poo somewhere and then come into my house and land on my sandwich sitting on the kitchen worktop, foxes and other animals who carry diseases don't do that, I can avoid them, I cannot avoid the flies.

Wasps sting, they have no purpose in life, they're not pretty, they're just annoying, and again, they come into my house and have to be dealt with, foxes don't, nor does anything else, even a rat wouldn't get in if I take the right precautions.

Culling is not for the sake of keeping animals healthy imo. It is once again for OUR own benefits, be that of the dairy farmer in the case of badgers, or the pheasant breeders who want to raise their young so that they can blow their brains out at a later date - fact!

Foxes carry disease.

Wasps actually predate on flies, so by killing wasps, you are actually killing a predator you would otherwise rely on to kill a pest species you don't like, because it spreads disease. Given that foxes carry disease, in the same way that flies, and many other species do, does it not seem a tad hypocrtical to you, that it's ok to kill flies and wasps, but to kill foxes is deemed as unaccedptable.

I've not mentioned badgers or pheasants, so I'm not sure where your argument is coming from there?

No point bringing hunting back then - glad we agree on that then.

Your words, not mine.

As I said in my previous post
Foxes are not welcome in towns, open spaces, farms, where birds are being bred to be shot, are nesting etc etc.
Or as someone put - have no place at all. I think from some replies on here that it's not just one persons opinion that they have no place on the planet.

How does one go about a cull that only allows foxes where 'we' think they should be allowed, if basically they shouldnt be allowed anywhere?

That's simply not true, I know gamekeepers who tolerate foxes on their land, as long as they don't start to predate on what is, an income.

Foxes have a place, that's not in question, what is in question is at what level that place is, in comparison to other species around them, and at what level the fluffy brigade interfere.

Sorry I thought you had agreed that it hadnt made any difference? No?

So if it's not made any difference what would the point be of bringing it back? Bearing in mind that the hunts very rarely got much success and only then took the old and ill - leaving a wonderful young healthy population to make more wonderful healthy young babies to overtake the planet

If it's not made any difference, what's the point in the current ban, surely hunting with hounds makes no difference?

How do they teach the foxes to know the difference between what 'we' want to have fun shooting and make money from?

As I have asked where is that place, we've seen responses on here that game keepers hire blokes on quads to kill all the foxes around the estate and surrounding areas, anywhere near farms anywhere near towns.

How do you cull so that foxes only stay in the areas we say they are allowed?