Michael Fabricant has deplored the growing practice of dumping urban
foxes in Wales. "With the growing problem of increasing numbers of
foxes in our towns and cities, it seems that do-gooders are now
transporting live urban foxes from the West Midlands and other
conurbations and releasing them into rural Wales where it is thought
they will do no harm" says Michael Fabricant. "Instead, they are
savaging sheep, poultry, and pets in hill farming country.

"With a likely ban on fox hunting about to come into force, this matter
can only get worse. I urge people not to attempt to move live foxes
from towns into rural areas." Michael adds.

There have been a number of reports of such incidents. The following
report was filed by Nick Smyth of Pentre Bach, Llwyngwril, near
Dolgellau in Mid-Wales and was reported in the Dysynni & Cambrian News
on 7th October:-

A van in a motorway car park was found by an acquaintance of ours to be
full of urban foxes. When questioned, the driver stated that the
animals were being taken to a remote part of the country, where no one
lived and no one (in London, presumably) had ever heard of and where
"they would do no harm".

The driver could not pronounce the name of our village either. He was
taking them to Llwyngwril.

In a neighbouring valley, farmers shot 118 foxes in three months
shortly afterwards. How would … (they) like to come down in the
morning and find (their) pets in a bloody mess on (their) front lawn?
This is the situation confronted by almost every stock farmer in the
country at some time and in this part of the world very frequently.

Somehow the ignorance of these town dwellers and misguided do-gooders
has got to be dispelled; somehow the government has got to be made to
realise that country people will not bend when confronted with such an
unjust law.

It will be a pity if it has to be by the painful process of finding out
the hard way because that will just exacerbate the already colossal
resentment felt by the majority of country people.