Someone’s rewatched The Animals of Farthing Wood and the casualty list is horrific
It’s 25 years since the animated TV series The Animals of Farthing Wood and if this is what we all watched as kids no wonder the world is so screwed up.
A chap called @bilbo983 rewatched the entire series and – seriously – Watership Down’s got nothing on this.
The BBC series was based on books by Colin Dann and it’s fair to say it didn’t shy away from the brutality of the natural world.
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I’ve rewatched The Animals of Farthing Wood. Here’s the horrific casualty list in full. Brace yourselves… (1/13) pic.twitter.com/IqUGZRZyfA
— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
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• The newt family – burned to death
• Mrs Pheasant – shot, cooked and presumably eaten
• Mr Pheasant – shot dead while recoiling in horror at the sight of his roasted wife’s carcass pic.twitter.com/CmvMNS5H9Q— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
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• Baby rabbit – nearly strangled in a snare
• Rabbit family almost drown in a river
• The rabbits almost drown Fox, who is swept down river
• Mole – almost eaten by a pike
• 3 baby mice – murdered by shrike bird who impales them on spikes as their parents are forced to watch pic.twitter.com/KrR34nsS6J— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
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• Fox and Vixen – almost hounded to death by a pack of ravenous dogs
• Toad – almost eaten alive by a carp
• Baby rabbit – shot dead by poachers in front of his parents and sister
• Mr and Mrs Hedgehog – squashed to death on a motorway while paralysed by fear pic.twitter.com/XlJwP6Oxdm— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
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• Mrs Fieldmouse – murdered and eaten by Kestrel within minutes of both of them arriving at White Deer Park
• Cat – savaged by Kestrel when she thinks he’s attacking Mole
• Mrs Vole – eaten by Scarface Fox
• Kestrel – mauled by Cat in revenge pic.twitter.com/8fP1oxqmDr— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
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• Cat – attacked by Badger to protect Kestrel
• Mr Vole – dies of hypothermia
• Two deers and a blue fox shot dead by poachers
• Mole – dies of old age/hypothermia
• Dreamer the fox cub – murdered by Scarface
• Mrs Hare – murdered and eaten by Scarface pic.twitter.com/Uqzef6yst7— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
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• Shadow the badger’s paw mangled in a trap
• Bold the Fox’s eye mangled by barbed wire
• Bold – shot by a farmer
• Fox instructs Adder to murder Scarface. She murders Scarface’s son by mistake
• Scarface bites Adder’s tail off in revenge
• Badger – dies of old age pic.twitter.com/NesRQqiZlx— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
