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Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Freya (12th Feb 2019 - 15:06:23)

Foxes are roaming about the Malthouse Meadows and Locke Road end of Radford Park between the hours of midnight to 4:30am.
They are particularly noisy during matings season. They scream and bark and don't care what or who they wake up.
So if you are being disturbed in the early hours of the morning by the sounds of screaming and or barking it's usually a adult fox calling to their babies or mating season has started.
So before you star complaining about neighborhood dogs bear in mind you live in the countryside and that wild animals like foxes sound like dogs barking.
Don't cause trouble when it's nature barking and not your neighbours dogs. Sometimes there is no one to blame.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Ian (12th Feb 2019 - 15:48:09)

Of course you are right dear. But there is a certain irritating dog that barks on London Rd from the grounds of the house next to the horse’s field. Don’t think foxes look like spaniels :)

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- liz (12th Feb 2019 - 16:32:30)

Dogs and foxes sound very different. If it sounds like a dog barking persistently then that is what it is!

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Mr Beagle (12th Feb 2019 - 17:23:30)

And before you all get too sentimental and disneyfied, foxes are vermin and need to be culled otherwise we will be over-run with the nasty flea infested pests

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Freya (12th Feb 2019 - 18:07:19)

I have watched the foxes at various times barking on the green outside my house at Malthouse Meadows. ( When they have woken me up between midnight and 4:30am).
The foxes use my garden as a pathway to Radford Park , as my garden backs on to the park. They make a noise jumping mine and my neighbours fence or gate.
The woods at the Locke Road end of Radford Park is where the foxes like to make loads noise in the early hours of the morning.
I can not comment on other areas of Liphook as I do not live there. I can only comment on what happens outside my property.

How you choose in perceive this information and translate it is up to you. I am just making people aware of noisy foxes in the area at certain times in the morning.



Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Adrian (13th Feb 2019 - 06:03:36)

I agree with Mr Beagle we need a good culling. Pity those urban MP's don't understand the countryside and tried to stop fox hunting.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- TJ (13th Feb 2019 - 07:30:39)

The fox is sometimes referred to as vermin, but it is not, and never has been categorised as such by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Just correcting the stupid.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- BT (13th Feb 2019 - 08:26:01)

Thank you, Freya, for your post about the foxes. I thought I heard one recently and was pleased to know that they have not been replaced by all the building work around. I used to live in a more rural area - not many miles from here - and enjoyed hearing their calls as part of English country life. I guess it all depends on whether your livelihood is affected by the animals as to whether you are glad to know that that foxes are around. A friend who lives on the outskirts of London finds foxes a trial in his garden and has also found them in his house stealing food and other items so perhaps we can count ourselves fortunate in just hearing their calls !

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- k (13th Feb 2019 - 09:27:05)

Would think foxes & other wildlife round here more right to live in & around village than the pesky humans that are taking away their habitat.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- JR (13th Feb 2019 - 09:59:42)

Adrian. Whilst I agree culls are necessary, fox hunting isn't about culling, it's about making sport out of chasing an animal and ripping it to bits for the fun of it. Now that's not necessary!!

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Freya (13th Feb 2019 - 10:19:21)

Re dogs barking.
If your dog is in a outside kennel and you are surrounded by woods. It is also possible that the barking dog maybe barking at foxes, deer, badger , rabbits , birds and any noise blowing about the kennels. Dogs will protect their property. They also have fearful responses to noises like us humans do.

If you are shouting at the dog barking. The dog will see you as a threat. It will also protect its property. Your body is vibrating negative energy to the dog. They see you as a negative energy and a threat. Try changing your energy and behaviour. Things will improve then. Like us humans dogs do not like to be stressed.

I did not post this thread to highlight foxes being killed. You are interpreting what I have written into your own perspective. That's your choice not mine.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- A.R (13th Feb 2019 - 10:48:58)

What a load of bunkam by Mr Beagle and Adrian. Must be lovers of blood sports and have to justify it by calling foxes vermin. This argument that " we in the country do things differently " doesn't hold sway with me. They are beautiful animals and have as much right to live as anything else. Most of the poor things end up on the road anyway so this over population malarkey is rubbish.
We used to have cock fighting, hare coursing and badger baiting, would you still advocate these things?
Having had chickens and ducks one has to be sensible and fox proof the area. It is usually a mistake by the owner that allows the fox access.
Back in the sixties when there was a hunt around here they would gallop all over farmland with not a care for any produce damaged.
I have come to realise that there are certain people in this world that will not be happy till all our wild life has gone.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Pete (13th Feb 2019 - 13:22:37)

Adrian. Urban MPs don't understand the countryside my backside. Most of them live in the countryside and only have a second rented home in their constituency. Humane culling (if indeed needed at all) is vastly different to hunting, your ideas belong to a bygone age.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Penny (13th Feb 2019 - 14:02:51)

Freya - barking dogs do not sound like barking foxes. We live in a very rural area and I agree at this time of year foxes are particularly vocal. It doesn't bother me in the slightest - after all we chose to live in the country, but I have never thought they sound like barking dogs.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Freya (13th Feb 2019 - 15:18:40)

Penny

Foxes make many different sounds depending on what they are trying to communicate. The bark sounds similar to that of a dog, except slightly higher pitched and sometimes shrill. Foxes yelp, whine, howl, growl just like dogs do.

The loudest and most prominent sound made by foxes is the scream or contact call, typically used by vixens, or females, when they are ready to breed in the late winter and spring. This "blood-curdling" call "sounds a bit like somebody being murdered," The call is designed to travel long distances and summon suitors.

Check out youtube or just listen to foxes roaming about at night.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Mr Beagle (13th Feb 2019 - 15:53:59)

Certainly don't support hunting for sport, still don't like foxes though or Badgers! Brian May is an example of some city twerp that knows nothing about rural life. (But I do love Queen and Brian's guitar playing. Gosh, life is so complicated!)

Very rarely seen a beautiful fox in the 'real world'. They are often scabby, scrawny and look thoroughly wretched. Far too many of them about.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Penny (13th Feb 2019 - 16:27:36)

Freya I totally disagree. I hear foxes barking frequently during the night, they are particularly vocal at this time of year, and have done every year since we moved here 45 years ago. We are surrounded by paddocks and woodland and I can assure you that I have never mistaken a dog barking with a fox barking. Apart from the sound dogs and foxes make, they bark in a completely different way. Dogs mostly bark because they are bored being tied up or in a kennel for a long period of time and they also also bark when someone approaches their property. Sometimes they just bark because they are excited. Foxes are not like that, they are communicating with other foxes and they move around at great speed so one moment they are barking in one direction and then in another. They do not stay in one place barking. Perhaps we just hear things differently.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Helen (13th Feb 2019 - 17:30:19)

I Think foxes multiply because of urban rubbish. The foxes are not naturally a town dweller but because people leave out their food waste for them they stay prevelant. I have noticed a decreasing amount where I live. The sounds I hear now at night are from owls.

Re: Barking noises are foxes over Radford Park
- Diane (14th Feb 2019 - 17:25:21)

There is a decrease of 44% in the fox population a recent survey shows. (Today programme radio 4 on Saturday. )They are not vermin look up the definition in the dictionary. They do not trash crops, kill farm animals or carry disease. The second definition is" very destructive and unpleasant people". This I think, refers to the People who Hunt. The Hunts are constantly breaking the law and consider themselves above the law. Although hunting was banned in 2006 it has never stopped and many foxes are killed as a result. They are also killed by gamekeepers because they catch the pheasants which are required by the shoot for their money paying guests to shoot. The dead and dying pheasants are invariably buried in a pit after the shoot as they are surplus to requirement
This was their home before we built on it. Live and let live

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