Converse of object

• shoot: The same evening he will return to the den to shoot the dog fox.

• cull: Alternative methods for culling foxes can all have problems.

• kill: At their worst they are still trying to kill foxes perhaps by flushing to guns or by using a bird of prey.

• flush: Under the ban imposed north of the border, hunts can use hounds to flush foxes from cover to be shot by waiting marksmen.

• chase: Mr Wright was filmed chasing two foxes across Exmoor along with two hounds.

Adjective modifier

• wily: A long, long time ago there lived in a remote Dartmoor clitter a huge and wily old fox.

• sly: A bit more like a silly old dog than a sly fox.

• cunning: She tries to reassure him but the threat arrives in very real form in the person of a more than cunning fox.

Modifies a noun

• hunting: We can also supply our own quality horses for fox hunting with any of the local packs.

• cub: Three years ago I was asked, by a dairy farmer to collect an injured fox cub which had sought shelter in a barn.

• predation: In particular, there are concerns in some parts of Wales about the potential levels of fox predation on black grouse.

• hb: Has been referred will begin to m fox hb.

• terrier: As for the colonel who had been billeted on her for years, with his pipe and his fox terriers - what a gentleman!

• hound: Despite exhaustive enquiries the groom could find no reports of any of the local fox hound being out that late the previous evening.

Noun used with modifier

• hunting: Total employment in hunting foxes with dogs is therefore 214 FTEs.