Foxy Lady

[pred]

I'll wager that got your attention! However I'm referring to Mrs Pred, she is one of the many people that feed foxes.

Here in Bristol the foxes were wiped out a few years ago through mange, there is still a lot of it about.

Mrs Pred took it upon herself to try and help the hapless creatures, she got some drops through the internet which she puts on a sandwich, either fish paste or jam, the foxes eat them both, after about three weeks we've noticed the little fella has now got a bushy tail so it's having an effect.

If you feed foxes as many people do and they have mange, please help them, the stuff she got cost a tenner and you use four drops daily, so if you give them a sandwich cut into four = one drop per piece, simples!

The drops are; http://www.nfws.org.uk/mange/

 

[Diyisfun]

Then the next post will be about foxes in peoples homes AGAIN.

 

[petit_pablo]

FFS dont feed urban foxes

 

[JohnD]

that is a link to a totally useless Homeopathic remedy.

I can send you a bottle of water if you honestly imagine it will do any good.

I'll provide it for only £9 a bottle.

 

[gasbanni]

that is a link to a totally useless Homeopathic remedy.

I can send you a bottle of water if you honestly imagine it will do any good.

I'll provide it for only £9 a bottle.

I used to get throat infections maybe four times a year, used to put up with it (the pain) then in the end have to get antibiotics because it wouldnt clear up. had this damn problem for four years.

Accompanied wife to a homeopath I was just tagging along..........
anyhow mentioned this wanted a urine sample comes back after a few minutes " Have you ben taking vitamine suppliments ?"

"No" ......"Oh sorry yes" how he knew that i dont know.

Gave something for the reoccuring sore throat ....never had it since.

But isnt immunisation based on the same theory ?

have a small dose of the thing that causes the disease to give you antibodies against it, isnt homeopathy in principle the same thing ?

 

[JohnD]

when I was at school, I got a wart on my knee.

I have toast and marmalade for breakfast most days, now the wart is gone.

Therefore toast and marmalade cures warts, right?

No, homeopathy does not work (1) at all (2) in the same way that immunisation works, although some people who do not understand immunisation might think it did.

If you take a homeopathic remedy, it is likely that there will not be a single molecule of the "active ingredient" in the purified water you have paid for.

some homeopathists have invented the lunatic idea of "memory of water" where purified water "knows" that is was once in contact with an active ingredient and can magically carry this power into the body to cure you. The question of how water might remember one ingredient, but forget that it was formerly in contact with a glass boittle, a teaspoon, a water pipe, a sewer, a river, the sea, and a puddle is not resolved.

 

[JBR]

Mrs Pred took it upon herself to try and help the hapless creatures, she got some drops through the internet which she puts on a sandwich, either fish paste or jam, the foxes eat them both, after about three weeks we've noticed the little fella has now got a bushy tail so it's having an effect.

If you feed foxes as many people do and they have mange, please help them, the stuff she got cost a tenner and you use four drops daily, so if you give them a sandwich cut into four = one drop per piece, simples!

Wow, you're going to come in for some criticism!

I like foxes too, though. We used to have one regularly cut across our garden some time ago, but I haven't seen it for weeks. I remember our cat once chased it away. He's lucky he didn't get what for.

 

[EddieM]

Whilst I don't adhere to the idea of fox hunting, here in the country they are not well loved for good reason.

I wouldn't shoot a vixen with cubs, but outta season, well... they are a menace.

 

[conny]

Well I'm in for some stick then!

EVERY living creature has the right to live and plays a vital part in the food chain. It only gets fooked up because man, in his infinite wisdom, decides he knows best and interefers with the natural rhythm of nature. Yes, foxes can be a menace and kill chickens, rabbits etc. So mans answer should be to devise a way from preventing them getting to his stock not killing them off!
Look at what is happening to our bees because mankind is destroying the habitat of wildlife creatures. The long term effects are that we will lose a great deal of what nature 'freely' gives us because of our greed. Man needs to stop being so materialistic and accept that possessing vast wealth doesn't bring happiness or health!

As for homoeopathic remedies, where do you think the basis of modern medicine stems from? It didn't begin with some scientist sitting in his lab and wondering if he could find a cure for something by mixing a load of chemicals together, it came from looking at centuries old tried and tested uses of natural ingredients and then producing artificial copies on a mass scale to satisfy the growing needs of a growing population.
You can only take out so much before you need to put back.

Well done Mrs Pred and given the chance I would do the same.

 

[mattylad]

Make a nice hat & gloves....

 

[EddieM]

Well I'm in for some stick then!

EVERY living creature has the right to live and plays a vital part in the food chain. It only gets fooked up because man, in his infinite wisdom, decides he knows best and interefers with the natural rhythm of nature. Yes, foxes can be a menace and kill chickens, rabbits etc. So mans answer should be to devise a way from preventing them getting to his stock not killing them off!

The stock that is bye and large to be killed and eaten?

What you describe is not homeopathy, but natural remedies, of which you are indeed correct many remedies do come from the natural world, asprin for example which is contained in willow bark.

 

[RigidRaider]

....where do you think the basis of modern medicine stems from? It didn't begin with some scientist sitting in his lab and wondering if he could find a cure for something by mixing a load of chemicals together, it came from looking at centuries old tried and tested uses of natural ingredients and then producing artificial copies on a mass scale to satisfy the growing needs of a growing population.

You're largely wrong. Most medicines began life when a scientist sat down to try to understand the illness then create and commercialise a solution. Natural remedies are mostly hushed up by pharmaceutical companies because you can't make lots of money from them.

Many modern drugs have been discovered by chance while the researcher was doing something else - penicillin was the first chance discovery. Pharmaceutical companies have spent many decades and many billions synthesising all kinds of wierd and wonderful molecules and then assessing their value as pharmaceuticals or as ingredients for other things like perfumes for example but 99.99% of new molecules are rejected as being of no interest, too dangerous, too unstable, or too expensive to make. There are very few new molecules left to discover now,which is why pharmaceutical research is turning to biological solutions - quite soon if you get a bacterial infection, your doctor will infect that bacterium with a virus and kill it.

 

[JBR]

Talking of infections, a very interesting documentary last night described a very simple answer to the problem of MRSA and similar troublesome bugs that are increasingly causing problems in our hospitals - copper.

Apparently, copper has the property of killing germs deposited on it by human hands and has been shown to be much more effective than bacteriocidal chemicals to which many germs are becoming resistant. They showed pictures of hospitals in America where such things as bed rails, drip stands and tables are either made of, or covered in copper.

Sorry to drift off topic. I like foxes. I can't think why people hate them.

Poor foxes.

 

[conny]

Having worked with copper in one form or another throughout most of my working life maybe thats why I very rarely need to visit a doctor.
I still stand by my statement that most modern medicines are based on natural remedies, just that companies want profits so produce artificial substitutes.

 

[adlplumbing]

Whilst I don't adhere to the idea of fox hunting, here in the country they are not well loved for good reason.

I wouldn't shoot a vixen with cubs, but outta season, well... they are a menace.

they only a menace to famers, who keep poultry