Comments by "Banana" (@439bananas) on "The Dodo" channel.

  1. Alpacas look so timid, but apparently, they can kick a fox to death and that poor dog looks like it might have been kicked in the face already.
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  2. Yeah. even if you just support his body too stop him choking it is better than doing nothing.
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  3. It does have a purpose: lunch.
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  4. Exactly.
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  5.  @davidhanson7630  Because most people want cheap eggs and meat, but don't want battery farming.
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  6. Must be a McDonalds and a Dunkin Doughnuts in the neighbourhood.
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  7.  @Ellie333jmtqkl  Foxes get in whatever you do, you want free range eggs at a reasonable price, well fox populations have to be controlled.
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  8. Take too long to act and might enrage the animal, which would be dangerous for the child.
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  9. Yes, but she may have hit the guy first and she is likely to be trespassing herself on someone else's land, which while not a criminal act of itself, the land owner might claim that she has damaged his land. So these cases do not come to court unless the sabs have good evidence and are in the clear.
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  10. It is a big thing because fox populations need to be controlled somehow. If you have young animals or chickens foxes will maim or kill them. People want free range chickens and eggs, but a fox comes along and does not just kill the chicken it wants to eat, which would be a fair enough loss; NO you will come out to discover that it has bitten off the heads of every last chicken. Farmers can not repeatedly take losses like that and fulfill supply contracts with supermarkets or even just sustain the losses.
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  11.  @egooooooooo  Other countries use factory farming way more extensively then we do and that is cruel not just to the odd fox, but to lots of animals. Given the choice between chickens that have had their wings clipped so they can not stretch them, their beaks trimmed so that they can not peck at their neighbours that are so crammed in to cages that they can not move away from their aggressor and are in cages that are stacked on top of one another, so that they crap on one another and have to be fed a diet that includes antibiotics to combat the inevitable infections from such overcrowding. I think the pay off of the odd fox dying is a fair price for the relative freedom of thousands of birds.
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  12.  @egooooooooo  And lots of countries where foxes and other predators are routinely trapped, gassed and shot. Sadly, shooting foxes is not the greatest option, you have to be a pretty good shot to get a head shot every time and a fair few would wind up just being shot in the jaw and dying worse deaths days later. When a fox gets with chickens it kills them all.
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  13.  @LewisC0298  Fox populations need controlling, foxes attack farmers young animals and if they get amongst chickens, they don't just kill one to eat they bite the heads off the whole lot. Farmers can not afford those sorts of losses.
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  14. It is an odd breed called a shar pei, I am not keen on them either.
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  15. Completely agree with you, these townie types happy to go on about free range eggs and free range chickens, but they don't deal with the fact that the fox does not just kill the one chicken that it wants to eat, but kills the whole lot. They don't deal with headless chickens or the loss of revenue from that.
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  16.  @dewniper  Thing is trapping or gassing them is regarded as cruel and to shoot them you have to be a pretty good shot otherwise the fox survives and dies in agony days later. A competent master would not take dogs on a fast road and would choose an area away from such roads. The real risks tend to be to the horses, form barbed wire and the like and rabbit holes.
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  17. The other week I nearly hit a buzzard that was in flight. Amazing how they can see an iddy biddy little field mouse that is nigh on the same colour as the field they are in but fail to see a bloody great red car against a black road surface. I have also had a sparrowhawk fly straight into the window pane at my home, thankfully it was just stunned.
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  18. The outfits identify the hunt's Masters. They lead the pack and direct the hunt and are responsible for the financial management and knowing which farmers are happy to allow them on their land, which is nearly every one. If you go hunting then you hunt behind the guys in red [although they are called pinks], unless the Master does you the honour of calling you to ride along side, NEVER go ahead. You pay your cap to the Master and upon departing company from the hunt you say " Good evening Master" no matter what the time of day.
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