Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)

Foxy!

I am supposed to be making a video for Crikey today as it is two Thursdays since the last one (David Speers being mean to a toilet roll – Classic! 3192 views thankyou very much). I have many subjects I could deal with and many ways to deal with them and nothing is coming to me that is even remotely acceptable – eek, not writers block, stupid video making block! None of the following are any good to me for no good reason –  the US election, Palm Island and Lex Wotton, Internet filtering, the ongoing financial stupidity, Julie Bishop’s plagiarism ahahahahahaha that is so funny, no really what a donkey.

And just as many ways to deal with them. Should I have a meeting of white supremacist toilet rolls? Kevin Rudd’s cat gets a job advising the Shadow Minister for Fucking Things Up? Overdub a chunk of the Obama 30 minute video (like 8 gazillion other people are probably already doing?). A capsicum pitches the idea of the movie of Palm Island to a hollywood producer (not as awful as it sounds but still probably too awful)?Julie Bishop falls in a hole and a bunch of sock puppets stand around wondering how to get her out (could be on to something).

Instead of “working”, I have been snuffling about the house drinking too many cups of tea and marveling at Apple’s Genius function for iTunes which I am in love with but not as much as I am in love with Jim Newell from Wonkette whose writing style I cravenly copy EVEN AS I TRY NOT TOO because it is too good and has gotten right into my creative spleen and I can’t help it (ooh look a shit-bird from pluto). Aaarrgh.

Meanwhile, according to a website I found : The European Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes), was introduced into Australia, just near Melbourne, in the early 1870s for recreational hunting purposes. The spread of the fox closely followed the distribution of rabbits across mainland Australia. Today, foxes are found in most areas of the mainland south of the tropics and, unfortunately, are even believed to have been deliberately released in Tasmania by plonkers. 

And also:

• Did you know foxes are really horrible to sheep and sometimes just eat their faces, even the baby ones. Just like Killer Whales do!
• There are 11 foxes for every square kilometre of Australia and it is pretty much a guarantee that you have a family of them living somewhere in your house as you are reading this. Without you knowing. And they are POISONOUS! Get out now!
• There are no foxes in South America.
• A foxes den is known as a “den”.
• A baby fox is known as a cygnet.

I saw a one eyed fox on twitter the other day. Or at least a photo of one. There may be foxes on twitter, because as they say, on the internet nobody knows you’re a dog. It reminded me of how beautiful and terrible they are, and how we humans love to blame someone else for our disasters. It is funny how something can be so charming and so dangerous all at the same time. They obviously do a lot of damage but so do wars and Rudd Government Ministers. Put them all in a big hole in the ground I say. Foxes, unlike politicians, are just doing their job, but somebody should do something. Perhaps Barack Obama the baby killing gay muslim terrorist president could fix it when takes he over earth from outer space as dictator for life. (aaarrggh stop that).

Here are some pictures of foxes:

Put it down you idiot, you're ruining it for everyone else!

And then I will get the sheep by the face and....

Look at that cute little face!

Anyone got any fun fox facts?