Dead Creature I Found In A Tree Today :(

[owain]

lol!

 

 

It's a fox mate... if it's not a fox then it's a dog with ginger hair!!

Either way... look at the teeth.. they are canine not mustelid.

 

Ok having looked at a few pics on the web i have come round the the idea that it is a fox. Cant really see any evidence of ginger hair. But i did not make that assumption on the formation of the teeth, but on the shape of the skull. Is it the number of teeth that distuinguish the two or the formation of the teeth? Dont take this wrong just keen to know.

Owain

[Highland Forestry]

Owain...

Farmer Ben mentioned that he had been back and seen gignger hair a few posts back..

 

The shape and form of the teeth is different from a badger. More dog like

[Mark Bolam]

I have maintained my silence on this one just to see what the most ludicrous suggestion was.

 

Sorry to disappoint you all but it is a fox.

 

Canines should have given it away. Think about it....

[David oakman]

Wrong it is a labrador poor thing keeled over on the last shoot:lol:

[slippery]

Wrong it is a labrador poor thing keeled over on the last shoot:lol:

 

lol ginger lab:lol:

[Highland Forestry]

sabre toothed hare?? lol!

[Pine Marten]

Perhaps it simply backed into the tree.......

 

 

:lol:

[Saw-sick Steve]

Owain...

Farmer Ben mentioned that he had been back and seen gignger hair a few posts back..

 

Perhaps it was a badger. A ginger badger. Perhaps its badger mates went to Tescos and got it one of those now banned Christmas cards. And perhaps, fed up of being remorselessly teased by its badger mates, this card was the last straw. So it climbed up the tree. And the rest, like the badger, is history.

 

 

 

(or it may be just a fox:thumbup:)

[waz77]

Easiest way to tell ,if its a fox is to look at the lower mandible,a foxes is in 2 parts and joins at the front whereas a badgers is one piece and cant be dislocated,when decayed a foxes lower jaw usually parts company with the skull