In defence of Brer Fox

Categories: nature-study

Tags: nature, fox

Date: 26 September 2007 16:48:23

A friend rang with computer troubles, but incidentally told us that the family rabbits had been killed by a fox. He then called the fox something I can't repeat on a family website.

But this friend eats meat, so in what sense is the fox any more a - well, what he called it - than he is? It just gets its food in a more direct fashion. How could the fox know that the rabbits were much loved family pets?