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How much do you know about foxes to describe them as destructive vermin? It sounds like you have formed an opinion from the media rather than actual contact and study.
Fortunately our urban and suburban environments are not sealed against other creatures sharing the space we have taken from the "natural" environment.
Whilst we generally find it perfectly acceptable to encourage birds to our feeders, you think it is wrong to encourage (or even tolerate) foxes. On what do you base your argument?
Have a read of Running with the Fox by David MacDonaldYou might be surprised at how useful foxes are in practical and existential ways.
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I confess to be struggling with this.
And I'm not posting this to be deliberately provocative.
But what is your reasoning behind encouraging a creature which is urban, destructive / vermin?
Convince me of what useful / desirable contribution foxes make to an urban environment.
We (humans) undoubtably are contributory to encouraging their presence with discarded KFC (etc) on the streets.
And I'm not trying to start an animal rights war here.
Nor am I trying to encourage the reinstatement of The Dulwich Hunt.
But personally, I'd prefer to not be having to deal with, and clear up their stinking shit from my back garden.