Do these animals live in the UK?

Question

I was just wandering if raccoons, possums, skunks, or coyote's live in the UK. In the US, if you leave garbage out, you have these little thieves trying to take scraps (not so much the coyotes). I tried scare a raccoon away with a broom and it charged at me and growled. You can't exactly scare skunks away either because they tend to spray you. In the countryside, If you leave your cats out they often tend to eat them. Also, could you tell me what kind of animals live in the UK. Much appreciated!

Answer 1

Nah, none of them.  But we get foxes and cats going through the bins, its not as bad here though.

We get other creatures, I reckon we have some wild cats living in our barn, but they aren't meant to live in our parts so I don't know.  And we get stoats, weasels, minks, American minks, foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, loads of birds, like kestrels, sparrow hawks - all these things going after our rubbish in the countryside!  But cats are pretty safe, foxes don't generally attack them.

Answer 2

No, none of those are wild in the UK.

We have..

rabbits, hares, rats, mice, hedgehogs, stoats, weasles, pine martens, foxes, squirrels, badgers etc.

Papercut...where the h**l have you seen a skunk wild in Britain?

Answer 3

no annie no skunks,possums,raccoons or coyote's here we only have cats seagulls and foxes that rip open garbage bags here. i live in the south west (a place called paignton) we sometimes have the seagulls swoop down and steal food out of peoples hands. We only have one venomous snake here which feels little more than a bee sting if you get bitten but they are rare. The UK is densly populated and so not much truly wild places exist anymore wolves ,bears and wild boar were hunted to extinsion many hundreds of years ago although some wild boar have escaped captivity and now live wild.

Answer 4

Foxes annoy me the most. They like to keep me awake at night having s*x - they make this loud awful screaming noise like a woman being murdered. Got woken up at 3am last week with them going at it - talk about rub it in!  

Answer 5

No none of the above but we have wild deer, foxes and drunken neds who come out at night. LOL

We used to have European Wolf and Bear in Scotland but they all went extinct --- they are talking about re-introducing the European wolf back to Highlands but they avoid human contact anyway so good idea.

Answer 6

We have none of the animals you mention living in the wild - including skunks ( to clarify the answers above ).

We do have foxes, squirrels, wildcats (fairly rare, but nasty if you meet one), badgers, mink (which were released either accidentally or deliberately by anti-fur protesters from 'fur farms'  but breed like rabbits did in Australia), otters (which the mink are doing their best to kill off), weasels, stoats. There is talk of reintroducing beavers and wolves.

Foxes live up to their 'Brer Fox' reputation for slyness. They have become urban, with dens in parks and commons. In central London early in the morning - less than a mile away from King's Cross - I have seen a fox with a pigeon in it's mouth wait for the traffic lights to change before crossing the road. And I wasn't drunk.

Answer 7

No we don't have any of those. Wish we did they sound cool.  We get foxes, rats and hedgehogs eating our rubbish

Answer 8

i think we have skunks, but none of the rest.

we have other things in there place

Rats, Mice and Fox's.

Answer 9

None of them. Out of interest though, there is an area of Germany that is overrun by raccoons because someone brought a few of them into the country in 1934. There are now hundreds of thousands of them and they don't know what to do to stop them spreading.  

Answer 10

There may be examples of the animals such as raccoons, possums, skunks and coyotes here in UK but they are either in zoos or private collections and not wild or native to the Island of Britain [UK].

Here's something about the wild animals of UK.

Wild Animals: Lost Native Species of Britain, reintroduction of ...4 Mar 2008 ... reintroduction of wolves, dear philip, documentries: Dear Philip Thanks for your questions. I also wish to thank the authors of the websites ...

http://www.en.allexperts.com/q/Wild-Anim...

Wild Boar, Britain, Information, re-introduction, native species ...Information on the wild boar free-living in Britain. ... attempt to prosecute a farmer for farming wild boar without a Dangerous Wild Animals Act License. ...

http://www.britishwildboar.org.uk/main.h...

Most animals in UK are of the domesticated kinds.

Less then 15 miles from where I live is possibly one of the UKs largest herds of red deer - at Richmond Park - wild though they may be, they are fenced in and kept like they were domesticated.

Here is a senior male red deer in Richmond Park - London in the rutting season - magnificent - you might imagine you were in Scotland, but no, right here in London.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHNfYhtMe...

Answer 11

thieves LOL!!

only skunks i think

we dont have raccoons thieving scraps lol & iv never ever heard of a possum or coyote before so i dunno  

Answer 12

I didn't think we had any of those.

We have foxes everywhere though and they go for the rubbish.  They're too beautiful to be resented though.

Other than that, squirrels, hedgehogs, badgers, otters, ferrets, rabbits, mice, rats, voles, hares, deer, Shetland ponies. I think there's a panther in the south west of England too - escaped from somewhere and has survived - though that was years ago.

Answer 13

We have Raccoons (I think) but not coyotes, skunks or possums. We have badgers, foxes, Hedgehogs and in some parts of Scotland we have wildcats

Answer 14

Yeah, we get fox, headgehog, rats, pigeons, mice, flies, bugs, lol - obviously bugs lol

Foxes, rats and hedgehogs are the ones who go through our bins, but we tend to keep lids on them :P

Pigeons are bad too, they're everywhere, worse than illegal immigrants :P

Oh yeah, badgers too !  forgot about that until the above person said it lol.

Answer 15

These animals are not native to UK shores.