“This doesn't make sense. If the country fox's habitat is being "taken" by humans, why on Earth would it move to the town where all the habitat has already been taken by an even denser population of humans? The truth is the urban fox is descended from urban foxes, and the reason there are suddenly a lot of them is that they are no longer controlled to spare the sensitivities of the fluffy-bunny brigade (who don't seem to show any consideration for their neighbours' fluffy bunnies!). The rural fox hasn't gone anywhere, there are masses of them too still causing the same old problems. A free range pig farmer I know saw a group of foxes at the back end of a sow giving birth, eating the piglets as they came out. They stayed there until he was almost on them. No, he couldn't shoot them in a field full of free range pigs, and he can no longer call the hunt to come and do a bye-day and get rid of that particular problem. The only solution, and I don't think he'd use it, is poisoned bait.”