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We seem to be overrun with urban foxes - screeching at all hours, brazenly roaming gardens, digging my garden & underneath the compost bins & coupling openly in next doors garden. It seems that there is no legal duty for the council to control them how can I prevent them coming into my garden? Someone has 'usefully' suggested a catapult!!!!!
Bring back fox hunting
*ducks for cover *
Wolves should do it.
Well how are they getting in?
take their food supply away.
Urban Fox hunting sounds fun.
I'd love to see a pack of brandy fuelled toffs charge through my neighbours 'oh so perfect' yet still pig ugly garden.
They get in by walking up the front path & jump over the back gate!
Beautiful creatures just trying to make a life in adverse habitat
and probably eating a few rats along the way
Leave em be and feel blessed they are using your garden
Why do people feel the need to kill/remove animals that are just surviving. They help control rats and mice. They produce a damn sight less waste than us lot, and they don't do any harm. Leave them be.
we seem to be overrun with urban foxes
So the urban environment was there first?
Anyhow, make sure there is nothing that would attract them and make sure your, and your neighbours' rubbish is secure and inaccessible to any animals. There has to be and element of coexisting
Someone has 'usefully' suggested a catapult!!!!!
Well that's what I've bought. Aim high.
"Mine" can easily come over my 6' fence and are often seen with chicken legs in their mouths. I'd like to turn the catapult on the morons that are feeding good food to bloody foxes!
id love to see some in my garden.
as I said take the food supply away, and I glad the council won't control them. They wouldn't just get an ASBO you know.
Surely you need a "Dogapault"?
We bought a house that was regularly visited by foxes before we moved in.
The garden was very overgrown and apparently they liked to chill in the long grass.
We've cleared the garden and don't leave any food out .
They found a new place to go ,although they have chewed a few balls..
Also had friends that had the fox den under their shed, it was a first world nightmare .
urban foxes are great nothing nicer than seeing them running down the road playing with one another 🙂
far better than the drunken ****s puking in the street imho
We had Aden in our garden when I was a kid it was great you only knew they were there by the snoring in the day.
Best bait I've found for urban foxes is a glass of Lambrini.
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is the catapult suggestion meaning a booby trap that launches the offending animal back out into the street? I doubt it would return 😈
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Note for the hand-wringers before you start sharpening your pitchforks. I too have foxes in the garden. I just ignore them and I have no intention of harming them.
Urinate in your garden - won't help with the foxes but it might make feel less prescious about it.
(it works round here but its the countryside and smell of wee normally equates to incontinent farmer with twelve bore)
'coupling openly' He he, you're funny (in a dumb way). You'd think they'd find a layby or get to hampstead heath like everyone else.
Agree with the co-existing posts but their poo is the most offensive stench in the world and they do seem to like crapping on items like garden toys, balls etc.
I quite like it when foxes visit our garden, like this handsome specimen
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Apparently Weybridge is the place to be for that sort of thing!
Rather the foxes than cats...
As it happens, they came into our environment ie. an urban one as food is easier to come by in such a place..
So, and ignoring the tree huggers, whose really the interloper..?
could be worse they could dig a den under your house
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friends flat in south london
If it's close range, you've got a soft ground back stop and an open ticket I'd probably lean towards .22 rimmy from an upstairs window.
Or you can borrow my wife to scowl at it.
Klunk, did you keep one as a pet?
not my house 🙂
Apparently Weybridge is the place to be for that sort of thing!
I was down there last week.
Was teasing my colleague about it being posh and he was denying it. Then when I was driving out I passed a pet shop with an A4 poster in the window advertising swan food.
Foxes became extinct in Oldham when we found out that when cooked they smell like Hollands pies 😈
hope I have not offended any yonners with this post.
Electric fencing or high level and buried fencing. (friend of mine has his chicken coop area surrounded by electric fencing)
Most of are cities are so densely populated now that Mr Fox will go anywhere he finds comfortable, providing food is relatively close and access is easy.
A place I used to rent had a family of foxes living down the bottom of it - caused no issue...
Just get a lion. Or a tiger. That will keep the fox away! 😉
Lion Poo? Or is that only for cats?
Dog just loves rolling in fox shite 🙁
Believe me: there are lots of things about the urban environment I'd like to get rid of, including some humans. Fixes are not amongst them.
I like them. Plus we are building more and more into their natural environment, forcing them into our backyards. If anything, we own them.
PS: we have lots of them on my estate and never do any harm.
The most effective way of controlling a particular fox is to shoot it . However most urban environments have quite a few foxes which are territorial so you just create a vacancy for a new fox to move in.
As others have said they are attractive animals who keep down rodents and cause less harm and offence than cats. Why enter into a cruel and futile attempt to change nature. If you want to discourage them don't leave food out or in insecure bins.
we had one come visit us back in the autumn:
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he (she?) was so confident he went to sleep right there & then:
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I was laughing at the Lambrini bait joke, then the Office Fox walked past 8)
I don't mind foxes, but it's a nuisance if they get your chickens or the kids guinea pigs
OK sensible answer time...
They will be put off by the scent of human male urine.
Just pee around the perimeter of your garden and they won't come back.
I've noticed they get immune to PIR security lights quite quickly
A couple of solar powered ones set up at bait points is much cheaper than a night vision rifle scope 😈
If you want to discourage them don't leave food out or in insecure bins.
... or your babies behind open doors or cat flaps...
Mr Woppit - Member... or your babies behind open doors or cat flaps...
We all know that wasn't a fox, it was the family dog.