Some wise person stated recently that there were only a “handful of sceptics”.
How come the papers are full of sceptical letters and the cartoonists are having a field day?

At the Cygnet Town Hall fox meeting last Monday night, a FEP official told an audience of 85 attendees that they had deployed 25 remote sensor cameras in the Cygnet-Cradoc area to detect the fox or foxes that are believed to have deposited two DNA-fox positive scats in early June 2009.

Apparently the chances of actually getting a snap of the Cygnet-Cradoc fox or foxes will be dependent on the co-operation of those foxes. The meeting was told “foxes are mobile and move great distances”.

Let’s hope that before the Foxoff 1080 baits are laid this community and the FEP personnel get an actual image of the fox-scat crapper of Cygnet.

Amazing as it may sound,this would be the first!

Foxes are mobile and move great distances.
This is part of the message I have been trying to get over to Tasmanians since 2003.
Now and for the next two months is the only time of the year when foxes have to remain static.
If any suspicious animal or bird deaths are noticed the dog fox responsible will not kill near the earth where the cubs are, this earth will be at least 2kl away. They don’t foul their own doorstep.
The activities of these numerous strangers hoping to find signs of foxes will have already driven them out of the area.
That is assuming the scats were deposited by fox.
No foxes reported calling this breeding season, either by the general public or the taskfarce with their expensive listening devises.
J A Stevenson. Fox Control Association