What human medines can we give him? he seems to be in a hell of a lot of pain but i am afraid to give him anything as i know nothing about canine physiology.

he is 9 years old, and his hip joint inflammed 2 years ago (anti-inflammatories cured it) buts thats it- very healthy, very lively. He's quite small (probably only 80cm length, 40-50cm height-these are approx. values). he's a cross breed (alsatian/ jack russel/doberman)

There is no rabies in the UK, so no worries there. its 12pm here, the nearest vet opens 7 am.

please respond if u know anything that might help. im gonna check here every hour or so.

on a separate note if anyone knows how to hunt foxes please respond. i am an extremely good shot but have no firearms, just a BB gun and many cricket bats/knives/fireworks and i want to kill it. extremely painfully. with prejudice

A BB gun won't do any real damage at all. Knives and bats require you to be at a very close range. This will never happen with a healthy fox. You're gonna have to resort to some other method.

Get yourself a crossbow, bait that thing and then put an arrow through it's back. Don't kill it just yet, in fact if you really love that dog, I would injure the fox and then cripple it like what it did to your dog.

You need to see a vet. If your dog can't move his rear legs then he must have damaged himself pretty bad. Dog's are pretty resilient.

despite all my firearms experience with assault rifles, machine guns, missile launchers, pistols, shotguns, rifles and archery, all of the things i have mentioned are illeagal in this country . using a bb gun is equivalent to spitting at that thing.
but cheers anyhow latimer, at least i won't bother chasing the damn thing with a bat. i'm gonna also make a spear out of a broom handle and a blade and chuck the thing at the fucker as its scrabbling up my fence.

i do live in a residential area though, so no oher animals i give a rats arse about. ill lay some poison out for it.

once again cheers for the rapid response. if anyone knows anything i can give to him to help with the pain it would be brilliant. he's laying on his injured side in an attempt to insulate and warm whatevers wrong with him, and he won't let anyone near it, and forcing him will make it worse.

oh and sorry for the long posts

in the COUNTRYSIDE its a different story. those guys got shotguns, and hunting rifles which are allowed by law. but funnily enough they don't hunt like that (much anyway). they all get on horses with hundred of hunting dogs and chase the fox for miles until it's too knackered to move, then the dogs rip it apart--> us city folk are trying to ban it.

isnt it ironic??? the dog got BIT by the FOX!

interesting change of events... this is one fox who got sick of the brits hunting his family with dogs, so he figured he would try and take the dogs out.. one by one...

i jst get mad when my dog can't sleep becuase he's in so much pain. and that theres no 24hr vet. transporting him to the vet ought to be 'entertaining tommorow'

and i sure as hell am not killing him. one of my relatives had a 3 legged dog, and in ameria theres a 2 legged one. but if he is paralysed that fox better never return.

i'll know in a few hours whats up. i hope to hell he's alright since i've known him over half my life. and what i'm gonna do if he is put down is lay some meat in the garden, set up some camo netting and lay down in it. i play cricket so i am a good thrower and im gonna pound that thing with 5oz cricket balls and chuck fire works at it. they move fucking fast though but what the hell.

just as a final note if anyones animal suffers this type of injury (apparently it's very common), a cortisone (or corticosteroid) injection within 8 hours can heal the dog very quickly. its a pity since we thought he had been bitten. if he has snapped his spinal cord no injection would help him.

havoc they were gonna give him opiate based drugs which are basically morphine so that woul have seen him spaced out! and i eat his dog biscuits, they're actually quite nice!

this country is unbelievably anti-gun. while this might be good for saftey on the street, it means i fuind it very hard to do as a sport.

my dog has a haemotoma on his spine, but the spinal column is intact so he won't lose muscular ability. they're trying to let the haemotoma go down on its own, then see if his legs get there motion back. if so, a little bit of atrophy training and hopefully he'll be alright.

peace

You sound experienced in the ways of war.

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"Be afraid. Be very afraid."

my dog has a haemotoma on his spine, but the spinal column is intact so he won't lose muscular ability (i hope). they're trying to let the haemotoma go down on its own, then see if his legs get their motion back. if so, a little bit of atrophy training and hopefully he'll be alright.

I would write it up as a pain full lesson.
I have shot a coyotes but never a fox. They are actually an animal of class. I have had several in my sight but couldn't pull the tigger - they are truely neat animals.

If you do go after him don't use chemicals. Find a quick way to put him out.