Comments on: Fur Farm Fox Ages Well http://earthfireinstitute.org/2009/12/fur-farm-fox-ages-well/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:24:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Katha Sheehan http://earthfireinstitute.org/2009/12/fur-farm-fox-ages-well/comment-page-1/#comment-1069 Katha Sheehan Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:04:09 +0000 http://earthfireinstitute.org/?p=1138#comment-1069 Wire cages: Welcome to the world of a majority of the world's billions of chickens! To never move more than a foot or two, to never feel the sun on one's wings, to never rub and roll in the warm sweet earth (dirt-dusting is the automatic response of any chick given the opportunity to touch earth.) When people claim that chickens are stupid and dirty, they never imagine how sadly ignorant and filthy humans would be if they spent their entire lives in a small cage with up to 16 other humans, no greens, no showers, no sunshine, no stimulus, no information, no hope. Although the fox is the natural enemy of the free-range chicken, our wild fox do not abuse their privileges, I hardly know they are still there. (I think they take a lot of eggs, and the sick or infirm chickens. If I didn't have a wildlife camera I would never see them.) In the movie Grizzly Man I was disgusted that this stupid man ignored and rebuffed the foxes' wonderful repeated humorous attempts at befriending him. The man was not there to integrate with Nature but rather to intrude into the bears' territory and prove his machismo, and he paid the inevitable price. If ever I give up my chicken and dog rescue, I would love to get adopted by some foxes! Wire cages: Welcome to the world of a majority of the world’s billions of chickens! To never move more than a foot or two, to never feel the sun on one’s wings, to never rub and roll in the warm sweet earth (dirt-dusting is the automatic response of any chick given the opportunity to touch earth.)

When people claim that chickens are stupid and dirty, they never imagine how sadly ignorant and filthy humans would be if they spent their entire lives in a small cage with up to 16 other humans, no greens, no showers, no sunshine, no stimulus, no information, no hope.

Although the fox is the natural enemy of the free-range chicken, our wild fox do not abuse their privileges, I hardly know they are still there. (I think they take a lot of eggs, and the sick or infirm chickens. If I didn’t have a wildlife camera I would never see them.)

In the movie Grizzly Man I was disgusted that this stupid man ignored and rebuffed the foxes’ wonderful repeated humorous attempts at befriending him. The man was not there to integrate with Nature but rather to intrude into the bears’ territory and prove his machismo, and he paid the inevitable price.

If ever I give up my chicken and dog rescue, I would love to get adopted by some foxes!

]]> By: Sam http://earthfireinstitute.org/2009/12/fur-farm-fox-ages-well/comment-page-1/#comment-793 Sam Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:51:28 +0000 http://earthfireinstitute.org/?p=1138#comment-793 Thank you for doing what you are doing. What a beautiful animal. Thank you for doing what you are doing. What a beautiful animal.

]]> By: liz http://earthfireinstitute.org/2009/12/fur-farm-fox-ages-well/comment-page-1/#comment-5 liz Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:44:38 +0000 http://earthfireinstitute.org/?p=1138#comment-5 She looks so sweet! She looks so sweet!

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