THESE shocking pictures of a dead fox apparently holding a beer can and smoking a cigarette have been posted on social media.

According to a Facebook post by Somerset Wildlife Crime the animal was discovered on the Silk Mills roundabout on the outskirts of Taunton yesterday evening (Tuesday).

The post says: "This Fox was found this evening on the Silk Mills roundabout where we run our demos from.

"Shot and dumped there, propped up with a beer can between his paws and a cigarette in his mouth.

"It is almost impossible to put into words the degree of infantile depravity that would drive someone to do this.

"But one things is certain... it says far more about you than it does about us!"