Outrageous to whip up hysteria and loathing
WHAT an outrageously despicable piece of journalism your newspaper printed about "solving" our fox problem (The Herald Says, June 10).
Read the original column How do you solve a problem like Mr Fox?
In the same week that a fox apparently attacked two babies, a taxi driver killed 12 people.
How do we solve the problem of taxi-driver murderers? Do we ban all guns, or ban all taxi drivers? Or both?
Around 200,000 people are bitten by dogs in the UK every year.
Is that statistic not glaringly more horrific than an isolated incident of a fox attack?
It wasn't so very long ago that the South Downs stretched all the way to the sea.
I own a house in South Avenue and I have photos of when Sea Lane was a sandy dirt track and Eirene Road was just a tiny alleyway behind my house which led to the beach.
The bits and pieces of scrubland which were left to grow wild have slowly and surely been developed and built over.
The last piece of this open land (area surrounding the yacht club), where many foxes made their home, is currently being razed to the ground.
Despite there being a covenant banning any development on this land, the council sold it to developers.
This very minute, bulldozers are smashing the last bushes, scraping up the last blade of grass and demolishing any burrows that these foxes may have lived in.
Where do these foxes go now?
Let's congratulate ourselves on taking their homes, then persecuting them for daring to show their faces in our gardens!
Whoever the anonymous person is who hides behind The Herald Says, who is trying to whip up public hysteria and loathing by using such words as "obnoxious", "prowling", "attack", "red-alert", and "toxic", I can only assume that his/her burning ambition is to write for the Daily Mail.
If he/she wants to report on a truly dangerous and "toxic" animal, I suggest it would serve them well to study the atrocities that humans are doing to this planet (and each other), and will continue to do, until we have successfully destroyed it completely.
Karen Davey
South Avenue
Goring
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