We (and our neighbours) have longish rear gardens and we are occasionally see foxes in the garden or crossing over the fences. Fine, we love nature.
We have a dog, that sleeps in the kitchen at night. Our kitchen backs onto the garden and we have glass doors onto a decked area that then leads to the garden. Most nights the dog will bark for a few seconds at what we think are the foxes she can see in the garden.
Last night we had guests over and my niece slept on the sofa downstairs. The dog barked and wouldn't stop. So she got up and went to the kitchen door, to see a fox pawing at the glass and pacing up and down. We have motion activated lights covering the decked area. She went back to the living room, grabbed her phone and took a couple of photos, with the flash on, of the fox still pawing at the glass and decking. The dog was still going bananas but this didn't faze the fox! We also have a cat flap, which we now hope they can't fit through.... Eventually after banging on the glass door the fox sloped off.
So, are urban foxes this bold? Would this play or aggression?
I've had this at my patio doors. I put it down to stupid neighbours feeding the bloody things so they the associate glass doors with dinner. Disturbed one passing through earlier this year and it dropped a cooked chicken leg...
Deffo aggression. The fox wanted to smash the window, first eat yr niece and then yr dog for dessert.
Hope you have double glazing...
They enjoy winding dogs up. It's play. Foxes are not aggressive in that way, their jaws aren't strong enough to really threaten a dog. A lot of small terriers were originally bred to hunt them.
I live in a small village and back on to fields, so definitely not urban foxes, but we had one who used to come in to garden at night and set the dogs off. If I got up I would have to open 2 doors to let the dogs out, he seemed to know exactly when to time his escape. The dogs never got close.
*reports gobuchul to the fuzz for illegal fox hunting
Foxes, can't be trusted, FACT. From a documentary;
I heard of a fox in London going through a patio door left open on a hot summer's night and chewing a shoe. It was from Church's. Good taste.
Let it in and see what it wants?
Was it trying to get upstairs?
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Having recently been to Warwick Castle the answer seems to me to drop something heavy on it from an upstairs window?
Let the dog out. It will soon bugger off.
The family two houses down form us have been feeding the foxes for a few years and they said they come right up their kitchen most evenings. When they hear our dog barking (when she's in the garden), they know the foxes are about to arrive. So, the dog can hear or smell the fox/s in the other gardens.
Time to set up some remote camera's I think and see what the foxes are up to.
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Let the dog out. It will soon bugger off.POSTED 31 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
This. Surprised it didn't happen. That'll be one bold as brass fox to hang about unless your dog is a chihuahua.
light outside (with the PIR), dark inside?
fox sees a fox reflected in the "mirror" and invesitgates a bit. fair enough.
Mind sometimes a fox [s]can be used as a scapegoat when some arse's pitbull[/s] bites off a toddlers face - right inside the house !! 😯
Foxes behaviour has definitely changed and they are well aware in the cities and towns it's easy food and there are no threats / predators. When I was a kid growing up in the country (40 years ago) you'd rarely see them at night and they where very cautious around people, now they are around a lot in the day and not bothered by people or domestic dogs, certainly not our black lab. I've seen foxes just off the Kings Road in central London. There has already been incidents of foxes coming into houses to look for food it's a natural progression from searching bins. If they become more aggressive it's going to be a big problem as they are so prevalent in urban areas.
Foxes soon peg it when they spot our Lurcher!
Get a gun
I was out riding a few weeks ago in the local woods and a fox jumped out and started running along after me. Wasn't until I stopped and turned around that it slinked off.
I was once talking to a farmer in Cumbria who claimed never to have seen a fox! I on the other hand live close to the centre of a city of half a million people and have them living in my garden. However it is a student area so they probably have a fine diet of pizza and kebabs
pizza and kebabs
They won't need their fox forks then.
Edit: Sorry, that's shit. I've got onion-eyes, yup, I'm blaming that.
I watched a Fox crossing the road opposite my flat last winter. It actually used the green cross code. I mean, who knew that not only did Foxes a.- have TV in the 80's and b.- Taught their kids how to cross roads.
Most dogs cant seem to manage it , yet a fox, no bother.
It is becoming an issue locally. too many coffin dodgers feeding them close to house. then neighbours finding foxes on their dinner tables.
I was once talking to a farmer in Cumbria who claimed never to have seen a fox
Ha, most of the farmers I know (knew, rather) will blame foxes for everything. Killing lambs, chickens, cattle, donkeys, stealing tractors, burgling houses... 😉
I've got foxes out the back, quite like watching them. One time they were literally ripping the piss out of a wee terrier in the next garden, it was hilarious to watch. Was just play no aggression in them at all. I don't think foxes get aggressive tbh.
Went out into the garden last year, lunchtime and there was 6 of them, maw, paw and the bairns - lying in the sunshine. Cheeky buggers.
It is becoming an issue locally. too many coffin dodgers feeding them close to house. then neighbours finding foxes on their dinner tables.
I've heard they're a bit chewy.
I don't think foxes get aggressive tbh.
Not the vegetarian ones anyway.
Feed it some .17 hmr, I'm not a hater but they shouldn't be brave enough to scrat at a patio door.
When I lived at my old house I'd ride to work at 4 in the morning and they'd regularly run alongside me for a while, god knows why?
It's an open secret in the human genome world that research has been going on for years into implanting human DNA into foxes.
Are you near any universities or research labs?
This is not a normal fox. It's an escapee, with enhanced, bio-engineered cognition. It's trying to work out how to take everything you own, and kill you.
OP is your surname either Boggis, Bean or Bunce by any chance?
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