Strange shoe thief?

[sailaboutvic]

I offen leave my under wear out but so far they always been there in the morning .

 

[cherod]

I offen leave my under wear out but so far they always been there in the morning .

Not even the seagulls then ?

 

[sailaboutvic]

Not even the seagulls then ?

Being pink with white spot , I think it puts them off .

 

[KompetentKrew]

Gosport is full of foxes - I'm pretty sure I've seen them in the Premier car park, but I expect they're all over.

 

[25931]

Being pink with white spot , I think it puts them off .

Foxes have sensitive noses.

 

[laika]

Seems that foxes stealing shoes really is "A Thing". And how come the plural of "fox" isn't "foxen"?

Fox found with impressive shoe collection
Shoe-thieving fox befriended by family
Fox behind footwear theft crimewave

 

[LittleSister]

Never mind the foxes, how strange were these strange shoes that were stolen, anyway?

 

[reefknot]

One foot in the grave?

 

[25931]

Seems that foxes stealing shoes really is "A Thing". And how come the plural of "fox" isn't "foxen"?

Fox found with impressive shoe collection
Shoe-thieving fox befriended by family
Fox behind footwear theft crimewave

You've lost me.On the spur of the moment I can't see "en"as a plural in English.

 

[laika]

You've lost me.On the spur of the moment I can't see "en"as a plural in English.

The things with horns which pull ox carts?

 

[Black Sheep]

You've lost me.On the spur of the moment I can't see "en"as a plural in English.

Do you have any childs?

Edit: actually thanks to Laika, and 25931, for prompting me to go back to the dictionary to look up the -en suffix. I'm familiar with the modern usages of boxen and Vaxen (or Microvaxen in our case). But I'd forgotten kine. And some of the archaic uses, horsen, shoon, treen are wonderful. Wiktionary quotes Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012): "Victor and I are having a huge argument about whether or not to feed the foxen."

 

[LittleSister]

Should the plural of vixen be vixenen?

Or should the singular be vix?

 

[25931]

The things with horns which pull ox carts?

I remember oxo, don't think that the plural was oxen, never seen an ox cart.

 

[25931]

Do you have any childs?

Edit: actually thanks to Laika, and 25931, for prompting me to go back to the dictionary to look up the -en suffix. I'm familiar with the modern usages of boxen and Vaxen (or Microvaxen in our case). But I'd forgotten kine. And some of the archaic uses, horsen, shoon, treen are wonderful. Wiktionary quotes Jenny Lawson, Let's Pretend This Never Happened (2012): "Victor and I are having a huge argument about whether or not to feed the foxen."

First time that I've heard of boxen and have no idea what vaxen means .

 

[ShaneAtSea]

Fox found with impressive shoe collection

A fox in a leafy suburb of Berlin has been getting into the spirit of summer - by collecting flip flops.

For weeks residents of Zehlendorf were baffled that a thief was stealing their flip flops and sports shoes from their gardens at night.

Finally a man spotted the culprit on a patch of wasteland, "in flagrante, carrying two blue flip flops in its mouth", the daily Tagesspiegel reports.

The fox had a hoard of over 100 shoes, but not the man's missing running shoe.

The man had suspected it might be a fox after raising the matter on a neighbourhood watch website and getting complaints from other locals about a missing pair of shoes, or one missing shoe.

 

[longjohnsilver]

Look for a one legged man/woman possible with parrot on shoulder

It wasn't me!

 

[john_morris_uk]

I’m on holiday atm and working on our boat that’s ashore in Gosport. I can’t leave the Landrover doors open next to the boat because the foxes get in exploring for food. They’re extremely brave/tame and will walk past you only a few metres away. I see them almost every day.

 

[AuntyRinum]

Definitely foxes. I have lost a shoe in the same way but I wonder where they take them and what they do with them?

 

[john_morris_uk]

Looking for food yesterday...
Edit: I took the picture with my phone off the deck of our boat in the yard. I’d already climbed down and shooed him/her away once as he/she had climbed into the car looking for food when I left the tailgate open.
I’d forgotten I’d left the coolbag (with a few bits of food in it) on the roof. Very bold and very reluctant to run off. Came back within minutes to see what I’d left out.

 

[AuntyRinum]

... and shooed him/her away ...

I saw what you did there.