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I thought we all learnt at a very young age that foxes could swim - remember the tale of the ginger bread man?

http://www.topmarks.co.uk/stories/gingerbread9.htm

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   Can we have a bed time story every night please. 

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only if you are all very very good 

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Sadly not at the duck pond near my dads - last year all the young were taken. A hungry animal will go to great lengths to get food for itself and it's young (even if it means swimming across to that island  )

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whilst not wanting to get into a pro or against hunting conversation hunting did very little to control foxes, cars kill more foxes than the hunt did, (some farmers even planted copses for the foxes to raise their young - thus ensuring a steady supply of foxes for the hunt). Sadly people have made the urban fox less frightened of the human population by feeding them whereas the rural fox population are far more wary incase the farmer has his shotgun to hand.
Back to swimming if the island is a long distance away from the land, which where I was a country park warden it was, the foxes would think twice, I would never say they couldn't swim out to it but they would have to be very desperate.

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