I’M OFFERING EASY MONEY
As always, I am offering a $200 reward to anyone, anywhere in the world, who can produce a video of a fox killing a lamb.
With entire Youtube channels devoted to fox snipers using infrared scopes linked to video cameras, this should be easy money.
With low-light TV, low-cost video trail cameras, and CCTV on every farm and in nearly every paddock, this should be easy money.
Today, nearly everyone has an excellent video camera in their pocket.
Easy money.
And yet, neither the Countryside Alliance nor the Farmers Union, nor the National Sheep Association (and their analogs in every country) seem to have any video proof of a fox killing a lamb.
None. Zero. Empty set.
Dogs?
Plenty of that. No shortage of pet dogs, lurchers, fox hounds, and even sheep dogs killing lambs and sheep, but none of a fox killing a sheep.
Let’s see if we can change that.
RULES:
▪️You can stake the lamb out on a 10-foot tether, provided the ewe is allowed complete freedom. Let’s get some quality video.
▪️The video cannot be edited, cannot skip around, and cannot mysteriously cut off. We are not looking for trickery and lies.
▪️We are looking for video evidence of a higher quality than what we now have for the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, and the Roswell Alien. Give us a video that proves that at least one Red Fox killed at least one lamb.
▪️No obviously rabid fox.
▪️No AI. The video *will* be tested.
▪️The video has to be owned by a named person at a known location. Mysterious video not attached to a named videographer in a known location will be assumed to be AI.
▪️No still pictures of dead fox next to a dead lamb. Between 10 and 25 percent of all lambs suffer neonatal death without any predators at all (see New Zealand, Tasmania, Outer Hebrides data), and lambing fields are full of after-birth, milk-rich sheep feces, and banded testicles that have dropped off. All of this is freely scavenged by fox, but very little (arguably none) of it is *caused* by fox.
▪️The reward is for a video of a Red Fox killing a lamb — not a dingo or a coyote, and not a fawn of some miniature species of deer.
▪️The cash reward will be transferred electronically to anywhere in the world and in any currency you desire. I will also enclose an author-signed book on working terriers praising your video find.
▪️This cash award does not preclude you from giving or selling the same video to the Countryside Alliance, Farmers Union, National Sheep Association, etc. None of these organizations seem to have this video tape, and I know they are anxious to see it.
I’m disabling comments, because this is not a call to start a debate with people who do NOT have the video tape being called for, and who are angry that someone would dare to say the emperor has no clothes.
And, to be clear, I’m not saying a red fox has *never* killed a lamb, only that it’s so rare it’s apparently never been filmed.
And to complete the previous analogy; it could be the emperor is only wearing a G-string. Fine! That’s enough to get you the reward!
So let’s get that video, and let’s make history!
If you have a video, send me a message and I’ll happily send you an email address to which you can send the clip.
First one with a qualifying video clip gets the $200.
Easy money, right?
Red Fox are the most common and widely dispersed free-living carnivore in the world.
There are over 1.2 billion sheep in the world, including China (194 million sheep), India (75 million sheep), Australia (70 million sheep), Iran (55 million sheep), the UK (33 million sheep), New Zealand (23 million sheep), Kazakhstan (19 million sheep), Russia (19 million sheep), Spain (14 million sheep), Romania (10 million sheep), Mexico (8 million sheep), France (6 million sheep), Italy (6 million sheep), United States (5 million sheep), Portugal (2 million sheep), Norway (2 million sheep), Germany (1.5 million sheep).
BOTTOM LINE: With Red Fox over vast areas of the globe populated by hundreds of millions of sheep, this video challenge should be EASY MONEY. I should be *inundated* with high-quality video of Red Fox killing sheep, because this is, supposedly, a very common occurrence.
