HELP Save the Foxes
May 9, 2010 – 8:22 amHappy Mother’s Day!
As many of you are watching the fox story unfold, I wanted to make sure you had the latest update. Channel 4 news has been giving it top priority so I hope you will go on their website and provide POSITIVE comments as a way of encouraging all concerned to help the foxes find a legal sanctuary.
The majority of our neighborhood residents do not want to see them go. Unfortunately, the neighbor who hired the trapper is within their legal rights to have them removed. The issue now is that the trapper is legally required to euthanize them once captured unless he can transfer them to a permitted facility for sanctuary.
If any of you have any pull with the DNR, I need you to contact whomever you can to help draft a statement that no one will press charges or fine the trapper who simply wants to save the baby foxes.
The good news is that the mother and the other two kittens are still roaming free in Riverland Terrace. I pray that she has relocated them to another section of the neighborhood away from the frightened resident. Most of us are proud to have foxes roaming free here.
Foxes represent a balanced ecosystem. They control the over population of rats, squirrels, voles, moles and other small creatures. They have lived in our neighborhoods for decades without incident.
Back in the 1950′s naturalist and artist Ann Worsham Richardson created a permitted sanctuary in her own yard along Wappoo Drive to assist in the rehabilitation of countless animals and birds. She has asked that I communicate to you that it is a giant leap backwards when we allow fear to destroy our hard-earned sanctuary.
You can help by contacting Channel 4 and offering your support. PLEASE give helpful suggestions for a postivie outcome to our dilemma.
6 Responses to “HELP Save the Foxes”
Good Going Trish!
Foxes live all over the city of London.
We saw evidence of them in the snow while there in January. The English residents, we encountered, take a sense of pride that they can live along side them in harmony.
Perhaps Riverland Terrace can too!
By Marty on May 9, 2010
Check this out:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/foxes-london.html
By Marty on May 9, 2010
We have Fox at out house, and injoy them a lot.
Sure hope they can save yours, Paul did not know they had to be killed when he called a trapper.
Van Atkins
By Van Atkins on May 9, 2010
I agree and hope that we can help him find a peaceable solution.
By Trish on May 9, 2010
If there is any way they can be released, and it cannot be our neighborhood (sadly), perhaps Charlestown Landing could support them in their natural habitat. There was also an offer from someone who has a farm on Wadmalaw.
By Joyce on May 9, 2010
Bronsan (sp.) Forest(owned by the railroad),it is on Hwy 78 going toward St. George, use to take captured foxes and release them in the forest there.
By Donna Moran on May 11, 2010