{"id":31853,"date":"2017-01-14T17:10:49","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T17:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31853"},"modified":"2017-01-15T00:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T00:00:17","slug":"wild-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/wild-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Look at me<br \/>\nI am what I am<br \/>\nA wild soul of the field<br \/>\nCreated as you all were<br \/>\nOn this earth to wield<br \/>\nMy blessed life before you<br \/>\nAnd a family hopefully<br \/>\nUp against the hunters<br \/>\nAnd the terriermen<br \/>\nWho be<br \/>\nOut there causing mayhem<br \/>\nAnd a general apathy<\/p>\n<p>I have a realization<br \/>\nThat our evolution must<br \/>\nIn actuality be caused<br \/>\nIts undeniably unjust<br \/>\nTo perpetuate our being<br \/>\nAnd then to chase us down<br \/>\nTo hunt us as if criminals<br \/>\nWith your louts from out of town<\/p>\n<p>We are the enchanted ones<br \/>\nAnd stealthily we creep<br \/>\nWith an ability to melt away<br \/>\nAnd in our earth homes sleep<br \/>\nWe are neither ghost nor phantom<br \/>\nWe are flesh and we are blood<br \/>\nWe feel pain as you feel pain<br \/>\nAnd Will meet you in the mud<\/p>\n<p>We feed at night<br \/>\nAnd do delight<br \/>\nIn keeping well away<br \/>\nOf course From you human types<br \/>\nWhose constant gripes<br \/>\nIs trying to make us pay<br \/>\nWe sometimes use old marl pits<br \/>\nRather than build anew<br \/>\nWe let the others make our homes<br \/>\nIt just is what we do<\/p>\n<p>We walk lightly on this shared earth<br \/>\nMore  so than BRUIN who<br \/>\nClamps his feet down in the mud<br \/>\nMore so than we do<br \/>\nWe really hate to deviate<br \/>\nIf there is a path then we<br \/>\nFollow it exclusively<br \/>\nIts easier you see<\/p>\n<p>Field  margins they just make sense<br \/>\nAnd reduce the enemies too<br \/>\nAltogether its easier<br \/>\nSo it makes our dreams come true<br \/>\nA to b in quick time<br \/>\nAnd not waste energy<br \/>\nWe are foxes afterall<br \/>\nNot sightseers you see<\/p>\n<p>As for smell we have it<br \/>\nThe scents are far and wide<br \/>\nWe have sophisticated glands<br \/>\nWe take them in our stride<br \/>\nWe urinate on certain posts<br \/>\nAnd gates thats what we do<br \/>\nWe communicate with others<br \/>\nWe do that all life through<\/p>\n<p>Our scats are sort of  dog like<br \/>\nSo we have to take care<br \/>\nA lot of humans understand<br \/>\nThe dogs and as we share<br \/>\nAn Obvious recognition where we let<br \/>\nIt go<br \/>\nWe have to really understand<br \/>\nThe hunter man will know<\/p>\n<p>In January when freezing<br \/>\nWe will be out all day<br \/>\nThe vixen she will stay in earth<br \/>\nIt is hard to say she just seems to prefer this<br \/>\nAnd that is good  as well<br \/>\nShe can recoup some energy<br \/>\nAnd our life then can gel<\/p>\n<p>Cubs are born in March<br \/>\nSo thats a busy time for all<br \/>\nYou won&#8217;t  see us much in daytime<br \/>\nWe really stay on call<br \/>\nThe cubs are with the vixen<br \/>\nThats life apparently<br \/>\nWe go to ground the family<br \/>\nAnd let the children see<\/p>\n<p>We can always hear them and smell them<br \/>\nWe forage a lot<br \/>\nLooking for fruit and carrion<br \/>\nThe animals sometimes shot<br \/>\nAnd left to rot in underbrush<br \/>\nBut the hunters are the<br \/>\nones<br \/>\nWe watch them and we know they are there<br \/>\nInspecting our runs<\/p>\n<p>And we remain ilusive<br \/>\nWe have to run away<br \/>\nCaught by hounds and torn to bits<br \/>\nIs not a nice display<br \/>\nAnd dug out by fhe terrier men<br \/>\nThose evil rotten slobs<br \/>\nWho dig us out and without a doubt<br \/>\nThat is when it robs<br \/>\nA fox of all his dignity<br \/>\nWatching his vixen beaten<br \/>\nAnd possibly his young cubs too<br \/>\nAll of them then eaten<\/p>\n<p>Man un kind is clearly blind<br \/>\nHis senses are on hold<br \/>\nHis heart is just a muscle<br \/>\nAn engine thats gone cold<br \/>\nThe terror that they perpetrate<br \/>\nAll within their law<br \/>\nIs unrelated to reality<br \/>\nWhich Apparently they ignore<\/p>\n<p>Blessed are the hunt sabs<br \/>\nThe men and women who<br \/>\nGive up their time to assist us<br \/>\nFor that is what they do<br \/>\nThey have saved a lot of us<br \/>\nThe illegal hunts out there<br \/>\nWhy they save us we have hope<br \/>\nOtherwise despair<\/p>\n<p>Some of them get beaten up<br \/>\nBy the louts that do abound<br \/>\nAnd some of those bloody hunters<br \/>\nWe have watched them from the ground<br \/>\nRode into the saboteurs<br \/>\nWe have seen nose bleeds and much more<br \/>\nAnd the men in blue are seldom<br \/>\nIn the picture too whats more<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes side with the hunters<br \/>\nAll outside the law<br \/>\nThen they steal their cameras<br \/>\nAll of this and more<br \/>\nAnd people turn a blind eye<br \/>\nAs these heroes do their thing<br \/>\nWomen beaten up by guys<br \/>\nWho just like to fling<br \/>\nPunches bloooming everywhere<br \/>\nIt really isn&#8217;t fair<br \/>\nThank you sabs human angels<br \/>\nThanks for being there<\/p>\n<p>And  MRS MAY or so we hear<br \/>\nOne Of those tory toffs<br \/>\nIs friendly with land  owners<br \/>\nAnd like them she scoffs<br \/>\nAt angels saving foxes<br \/>\nAnd badgers and  the rest<br \/>\nHares and  deers and birds of prey<br \/>\nSO YOU SABS YOU ARE THE BEST<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look at me I am what I am A wild soul of the field Created as you all were On this earth to wield My blessed life before you And a family hopefully Up against the hunters And the terriermen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/wild-fox\/\">Continue reading <span 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