Pensioner trains foxes to dance - but two legs bad, says RSPCA
Fenris
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6108631.ece
From The Times
April 17, 2009
Pensioner trains foxes to dance - but two legs bad, says RSPCA
Derby
An 80-year-old man has trained foxes to stand up on their hind legs and
beg for food, amazing animal behaviourists. Up to seven animals wait
every night in the garden of Richard Lavelle, in Derby. Wildlife experts
say that they have never heard of foxes being trained in such a way, and
his neighbours say they are happy because the animals have stopped
digging up their allotments.
The foxes began to visit about five years ago. =3FA mother fox had some
cubs on some allotments at the bottom of my neighbour=3Fs garden, so I
started to offer them food,=3F he said. =3FWhen the mother died, the cubs
kept coming, and now I am seeing the second generation.=3F
Nick Brown, of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said: =3FThe foxes are
getting regular food and it seems to be stopping them destroying the
local environment.=3F But the RSPCA said: =3FThey could easily become
dependent on you, then what happens when you move away?=3F
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Words
wrote:
>Note there is a photo of the man and one of the foxes on the website.
>
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6108631.ece
>
>From The Times
>April 17, 2009
>Pensioner trains foxes to dance - but two legs bad, says RSPCA
>
>Derby
>
>An 80-year-old man has trained foxes to stand up on their hind legs and
>beg for food, amazing animal behaviourists. Up to seven animals wait
>every night in the garden of Richard Lavelle, in Derby. Wildlife experts
>say that they have never heard of foxes being trained in such a way, and
>his neighbours say they are happy because the animals have stopped
>digging up their allotments.
>
>The foxes began to visit about five years ago. =3FA mother fox had some
>cubs on some allotments at the bottom of my neighbour=3Fs garden, so I
>started to offer them food,=3F he said. =3FWhen the mother died, the cubs
>kept coming, and now I am seeing the second generation.=3F
>
>Nick Brown, of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust, said: =3FThe foxes are
>getting regular food and it seems to be stopping them destroying the
>local environment.=3F But the RSPCA said: =3FThey could easily become
>dependent on you, then what happens when you move away?=3F
I'm sure the foxes will cope by themselves should the old guy 'move
away'.
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