tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post1323980025698263339..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: One Man and his DogCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-40866020572264186262017-08-05T11:39:14.489+01:002017-08-05T11:39:14.489+01:00I live in rural France. We've got multiple ear...I live in rural France. We've got multiple earths and badger sets at the bottom of a field.<br />Foxes are opportunist scavengers and they're lazy. They'll happily wait for mice and voles to pounce on after the field grass has been cut, but I've never seen them chase anything. Hunting, as far as a fox is concerned, is more like an ambush. <br /><br />The collars found in the earths are usually from road kill or pets that are in some way defenceless (young, weak, abandoned, crippled). <br /><br />We've got 2 cats who were born in a field and donated to us by their mother. If a fox tried to mess with the female, it wouldn't know what hit it ! She'd rip it to shreds. <br />Our neighbour had a rescue cat that couldn't jump, and that disappeared after a few months. <br />I don't think our foxes do take outs - that particular pleasure isn't available here and I've never found a pizza box. Enoughnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-87764301242265664042017-08-05T08:50:17.572+01:002017-08-05T08:50:17.572+01:00His twitter handle suggests he has a skewed view o...His twitter handle suggests he has a skewed view of what to be proud of. <br /><br />Then there is that N. Korea thing, which the BBC seemed totes ok with.<br /><br />Mind you... Jeremy Bowen.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-73752528957398736592017-08-04T17:33:58.451+01:002017-08-04T17:33:58.451+01:00Panorama and Sweeney equals a toxic combination - ...Panorama and Sweeney equals a toxic combination - best to ignore both I think.<br />There was a time (long ago) when Panorama was rightly looked up to with respect but, sadly, no longer I fear. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-75388618013292337902017-08-04T14:45:19.765+01:002017-08-04T14:45:19.765+01:00As soon as I saw it was Sweeney, the expectation b...As soon as I saw it was Sweeney, the expectation became that it was just another vehicle for him to grandstand about something, subject matter unimportant.David Preiser (USA)https://www.blogger.com/profile/00055001852090086556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-4018225372448880452017-08-04T09:51:59.789+01:002017-08-04T09:51:59.789+01:00It's very weird - you'd expect the BBC to ...It's very weird - you'd expect the BBC to target the Countryside Alliance instead, although they have just had a pop at Ian Botham for shooting birds for sport.<br />If the BBC really wants to take the RSPCA to task, they could look into the Society's utterly wrong-headed defence of the urban fox. We had a foxes' earth at the bottom of our garden, a couple of years ago. My wife and I spent many hours watching them bringing up their cubs and there's no doubt about it, they were great fun and, yes, cute. But there was a downside: the adults were foraging in dustbins and bringing back chicken carcases and, worse, the remains of take-aways, complete with wrappings - it was necessary to do a daily clean-up to avoid attracting rats. Worse still was the constant procession of dead animals they brought in: several cats, a kitten and one small dog - and that's only what we happened to see. The RSPCA claims that foxes don't take pet animals, only road-kill - well, drivers in our neck of the woods must have lousy reaction times! A French farmer we know doesn't believe it either: when they dig out foxes,(!) they regularly find a collection of cat and dog collars as well as bones. Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.com