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primmiemoo

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michael N123 said:
Tame soft old house cats are proberly a easy target for them
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The Vet said that it was almost certainly a fox that attacked one of the farm cats here and left her mortally wounded. That cat wasn't particularly tame, and definitely not soft - I've scars to prove it.
They might have considered each other enemies, and fought for territory.
 
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primmiemoo said:
The Vet said that it was almost certainly a fox that attacked one of the farm cats here and left her mortally wounded. That cat wasn't particularly tame, and definitely not soft - I've scars to prove it.
They might have considered each other enemies, and fought for territory.
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I well remember our old vet,( An animal lover by definition) absolutely and utterly loathed foxes!
 
matty

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Pond digger said:
That last picture: where was that taken and what kind of owl is it?
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I'm not sure it was on fb , apparently the cat appeared with what looked like scratch type marks on it's back end and would not go outside for a couple of days.After looking at what the camera caught they understood why.
 
Exfarmer

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I had to laugh at this comment left on The Times website regarding an article by Janice Turner re the "Croydon Cat killer" In it she is obviously not fond of foxes
I was unaware that Fox hunters etc were all remainers and voted Labour :):):)
Anyway with apologies to the writer and The Times

Why are stupid remainiac lefties always fox haters? Rachel give us a second vote whatever her name is wrote something similar in the Times a while ago. What incredible bores you people are. You simply can’t just live and let live, you must whinge and carp and despise endlessly. Foxes are no threat to cats, or to well managed farm animals, and they perform a useful cleanup service in cities. Mostly they live on earthworms. The food chain is there for a reason, although you North London dinner party bores are too well insulated from reality to realise it. Times, I suggest you get Chris Packham in to write of you want to do wildlife, not someone from your large stable of over the hill, North London Blairite bores. No one is interested in anything they have to say. No wonder your sales are through the floor.
 
Dry Rot

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matty said:
I'm not sure it was on fb , apparently the cat appeared with what looked like scratch type marks on it's back end and would not go outside for a couple of days.After looking at what the camera caught they understood why.
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I am sure there will be escaped European Eagle Owls here in the UK. They weigh three times as much as a barn owl and a domestic cat would be well within their capabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_eagle-owl#Dietary_biology
 
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Our old tom cat " Jaws n' Claws" had no fear of dogs or humans and once chased a fox around the back of the house and across the field when it tried to pinch his breakfast. He used the same technique that a lioness uses to bring down her prey, by striking the hind legs to one side, on our 30kg + lab cross. I pitied the fox.
 
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Dry Rot said:
I am sure there will be escaped European Eagle Owls here in the UK. They weigh three times as much as a barn owl and a domestic cat would be well within their capabilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_eagle-owl#Dietary_biology
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I and several friends - all sober - once saw an eagle owl in Ashridge woods near Berkhamsted, I think around 1995. Two others and myself were / are keen ornithologists and the others reliably level-headed, we all were entirely certain that it was several times larger than a tawny. We measured the relative position of the branches we saw it perched on and it had to be the size we believed it to be. We spoke to a fellow at the museum in Tring, but he hadn't heard any reports of missing owls from private keepers or zoos.

Exfarmer said:
There sre plenty of films showing Eagles catching wolves, I would think a hungry barn owl could take on a cat, not saying they do though, be a nice thought!
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One of my favourite childhood books was the 'AA Book of the British Countryside', it had a picture of a golden eagle eating a fox, I saw something similar many years later. But I wouldn't have thought an eagle was capable of killing an adult wolf, even a relatively small one. Nonetheless, you are right, I have just watched a youtube video showing just that.

I m aware that it is claimed that when New Zealand was first settled by humans there was an eagle which attacked and killed some of them. I think this is entirely credible, NZ was 'Bird World' back then and had some enormous species.
 
Dry Rot

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Danllan said:
I and several friends - all sober - once saw an eagle owl in Ashridge woods near Berkhamsted, I think around 1995. Two others and myself were / are keen ornithologists and the others reliably level-headed, we all were entirely certain that it was several times larger than a tawny. We measured the relative position of the branches we saw it perched on and it had to be the size we believed it to be. We spoke to a fellow at the museum in Tring, but he hadn't heard any reports of missing owls from private keepers or zoos.



One of my favourite childhood books was the 'AA Book of the British Countryside', it had a picture of a golden eagle eating a fox, I saw something similar many years later. But I wouldn't have thought an eagle was capable of killing an adult wolf, even a relatively small one. Nonetheless, you are right, I have just watched a youtube video showing just that.

I m aware that it is claimed that when New Zealand was first settled by humans there was an eagle which attacked and killed some of them. I think this is entirely credible, NZ was 'Bird World' back then and had some enormous species.
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Yes, I searched Youtube for a wolf killing eagle too! I doubt many do it in the wild though. There are plenty of examples of inexperienced birds of prey tackling quarry much larger than themselves. The Arabs, after all, train falcons to attack gazelle which are slowed down so the dogs can pull them down. It is not too difficult to train a predator to take on something much larger and stronger than itself -- until it gets taught a lesson it won't forget!
 

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