Lockdown foxing
The Covid-19 lockdown has affected fox control in different ways – it all depends on your situation. If you see fox shooting as your sport, something you do to enjoy yourself, then it’s difficult to justify going out when we're all supposed to be staying at home and avoiding non-essential travel. Then again if you’re protecting livestock that are destined to go into the food chain, that’s essential work whether you're being paid for it or not.
It’s getting late for lambs, at least in my part of East Anglia, but there are free-range hens and piglets that are definitely vulnerable to foxes – and with less of the usual discarded takeaways and picnic leftovers to scavenge, there’s every chance that foxes will head out of town looking for easy pickings in the countryside. Ideally during this lockdown you’d stick to farms close to where you live; I don’t suppose the police would be too happy about people travelling miles to shoot foxes when
