[Osem]

Many years ago we lost all 5 of our pet chickens to the fox. As children we were terribly upset and the fact that 4 of the 5 had been killed but left behind added insult to injury. Of course we decided to bury the remaining 4 nearby only to find a day or two later that the fox had exhumed them all! We'd unwittingly done the fox's job for him!! As has been said by others here, left to their devices, foxes will kill in numbers and then return repeatedly to the scene in order to retrieve as many carcasses as they can. That's what survival in the wild is all about.

Anyway, whatever happens about this issue in Westminster, all I hope is that it doesn't take up as much precious parliamentary time as it did under Bliar's 'government' and still result in a total shambles.