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whitestu

posted on 7/5/11 at 08:29 PM Reply With Quote
Fox family

We've got a family of six living under the shed - mum and dad and four cubs. I've set up an old web camera so we can stream video into the house for the kids to watch. Trouble is the cubs keep trying to eat the camera!




Not sure how far under the shed the den goes, but I'm half expecting the floor to collapse at some point.

Stu

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imp paul

posted on 7/5/11 at 08:39 PM Reply With Quote
that's very cool like it lots
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nick205

posted on 7/5/11 at 08:41 PM Reply With Quote
That is really rather cool - hope you post some more stills (maybe some YouTube footage)








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Ninehigh

posted on 7/5/11 at 08:46 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by whitestu




Disaster as giant foxes rampage through the village of Meerkovo






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whitestu

posted on 7/5/11 at 08:47 PM Reply With Quote
I'll try to get some more pics and video. I'm using a cheap webcam with Windows media encoder to stream the video and unless I record a load of mostly blank video, which would fill the PCs hard drive in no time, I need to sit at the pc pressing print screen to get the stills.


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nick205

posted on 7/5/11 at 08:52 PM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by whitestu
I'll try to get some more pics and video. I'm using a cheap webcam with Windows media encoder to stream the video and unless I record a load of mostly blank video, which would fill the PCs hard drive in no time, I need to sit at the pc pressing print screen to get the stills.


Stu



Get the coffee on then, could be a long night






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Madinventions

posted on 7/5/11 at 11:15 PM Reply With Quote
Do a Google search for a bit of software called 'Thief jailer'. It monitors the image from the webcam, and starts recording when the picture changes by a preset amount. Perfect for this kind of thing!

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coyoteboy

posted on 7/5/11 at 11:57 PM Reply With Quote
catspy also does this exactly (used it to spy on an office mate who kept rifling through my desk). Not sure if newer versions are no longer freeware though?
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Triton

posted on 8/5/11 at 08:38 AM Reply With Quote
Wow that's really cool I bet your kids love that...





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carpmart

posted on 8/5/11 at 09:09 AM Reply With Quote
Nothing going on there that a shotgun wouldn't sort out!





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imp paul

posted on 8/5/11 at 09:30 AM Reply With Quote
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Nothing going on there that a shotgun wouldn't sort out!
i think that about people with guns lots of nutters with arms at there homes and why the f******* hell would you want to go killing stuff for no good reason not in to sick crap like that at all



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carpmart

posted on 8/5/11 at 09:46 AM Reply With Quote
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Originally posted by imp paul
quote:
Originally posted by carpmart
Nothing going on there that a shotgun wouldn't sort out!
i think that about people with guns lots of nutters with arms at there homes and why the f******* hell would you want to go killing stuff for no good reason not in to sick crap like that at all



[Edited on 8/5/11 by imp paul]


I do understand your sentiment BUT it is completely misguided!

However cuddly a cute they look, foxes are vermin and if not controlled, are exceptionally successful breeders. Four cubs have the potential to produce a lot of foxes (cubs) by this time next year. A small number of foxes in a neighborhood if left to their own devices and with a ready food source, soon becomes a large number!

There is nothing to predate foxes so however distasteful you find shooting (culling) foxes, you cannot argue with the logic that their number need controlling!





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imp paul

posted on 8/5/11 at 10:10 AM Reply With Quote
look i started life working in a slaughter house and it was on a large farm so i know how it works also i have met many of gun happy nut jobs who get off on killing anything that moves so dress it up how you like im not stupid far from it
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