[Closed] Urban foxes - how to get rid of them

urban foxes are great nothing nicer than seeing them running down the road playing with one another

far better than the drunken **** puking in the street imho

This ^ Our lovely garden foxes keeps the rat population to a minimum, and a couple of times a year call to each other. Some lucky moonlit nights we get to watch them playing on the lawn.

The tawny owls kick up an almighty racket at regular intervals. I feel lucky.

We don't get any in our garden 🙁

I like foxes but I guess if they were in my garden I'd be worried about our two toddlers. So check the yellow pages for pest control, phone around and you'll probably find someone who'll come around and blow their brains out with a Ruger 10/22.

I like foxes but I guess if they were in my garden I'd be worried about our two toddlers.

Or you could stop leaving your toddlers out overnight

I live in a small village and we regularly get foxes in our garden.

The main problem is that they send the dogs crazy at 4.00 am, the dogs seem to sit up and wait for them as well!

I would let the dogs out and the fox would disappear over the fence but he always comes back and seems to treat the chasing dogs as sport.

I did try the peeing in the back garden thing and it has made no difference.

Today as I'm working at home this morning if I go into the back bedroom I can see a fox in our garden, another in next doors, and another one on top of another neighbours shed. They spent most of last night barking away and have done for the last month, and they're doing it during daytime as well.
We've had our compost bin dug into and holes are appearing in our garden. We don't feed them, we don't really throw food waste away, we don't cook meat at home, so anything that goes out are things like vegetable peelings and the odd bit of bread and most of that is composted.
I now see at least one fox every day in the streets - during daylight as well, which has never been the case in the past.
In west London they're getting to the point where they're out of control, they're not a valued occasional visitor to be cherished, they're a pest.
Maybe if I lived somewhere more romantic like the rest of stw-ers then I'd feel about it differently.

Do you have wheelie bins? If not, pressure the council to switch to them.

Used to get loads and since they switched to wheelie bins, they've largely moved out. I still see them around in places, more in the rural edges of town, but the whole freaky alien sounding screeching at night and rummaging through bins scattering stuff all over the place has stopped. I don't mind them as long as they're not doing those things in my garden.

Sex as a fox must be good, because they sure make a lot of noise doing it.

I live in the country and don't really appreciate them TBH. And why are dogs attracted to their poo so much? The damage they do when the get into a chicken coop is grim as well.It is not like they just kill what they are going to eat.

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thestabiliser - Member

I like foxes but I guess if they were in my garden I'd be worried about our two toddlers.

Or you could stop leaving your toddlers out overnight

Quite a few foxes around my parents, one crosses the garden every morning about 7:30am. Presumably the same fox regularly goes off in the opposite direction as early as 4:00pm. It's not entirely uncommon to see them in daylight. I think you're confusing foxes and vampires.

Why do you want to get rid of Foxes? What have they done wrong?

Fear for your Toddlers? WTF. Don't ever move to Australia or other country then. Jesus wept.

I think you're confusing foxes and JimmySavillotronKillBots

Waits 35 minutes for hora to have completely the opposite reaction and be screaming for death to foxes......

Waits 35 minutes for hora to have completely the opposite reaction and be screaming for death to foxes......

I'm just confused how people see them as evil all of a sudden. Please don't look into how many rats and mice live closeby to you. You'll be worried more about diseases from them then.

The sound they can make though- remember first being woken up by one when I lived in London and I thought 'ah that sounds like the Four Horsemen and the Apocalypse arriving' 😆

The famous fox bites toddler case was a really unusual fox seeing it was able to get into the house past the family pit bull bite the toddler then get away unseen.

"Maybe if I lived somewhere more romantic like the rest of stw-ers then I'd feel about it differently. " If you think leeds 7 is romantic you must live in a really grotty area.

7.30am one way, 4pm the other.

Jesus a German Fox on its way to work.

hora

Why do you want to get rid of Foxes? What have they done wrong?

Fear for your Toddlers? WTF. Don't ever move to Australia or other country then. Jesus wept.

I didn't say I had any fear, I was rationalizing why the op might want rid of them. When I take the kids to their grandparents there are a number of foxes quite close, but there are dogs in every house so it's not an issue as they never come close to the house.
As I said I like foxes, but they are basically small wild dogs, so if they were a problem I wouldn't have a problem getting them sorted out.

7.30am one way, 4pm the other.

A punctual German Fox on its way to work.

we've always had a scratty town fox who passes through our garden but never stops - then a just before Christmas a large, much more handsome fox began visiting. I presume he was from out of town and had made his way into the city. we caught him a couple of times sniffing round the back door and round a bin bag (which only had bricks in) and the mrs got a bit paranoid.

a couple of weeks ago it got ran over infront of our house. I went out and had a good look at it. magnificent animal with mahoosive bollocks.
that is all.

crankboy - Member
The famous fox bites toddler case was a really unusual fox seeing it was able to get into the house past the family pit bull bite the toddler then get away unseen.

I still have my suspicion that there's something fishy with that story. Not only went past the dog, family, ignored the kitchen with food and then proceeded to find the toddler, climb into the cot/bed whatever and bite it. Yeah right.

magnificent animal with mahoosive bollocks.

What the bloody ell did you do to it? 😆 😯

!I still have my suspicion that there's something fishy with that story. Not only went past the dog, family, ignored the kitchen with food and then proceeded to find the toddler, climb into the cot/bed whatever and bite it. Yeah right."

You are underestimating how fantastically clever and bold a fox can be.

What the bloody ell did you do to it?

well I didn't want to look at it's head as it was surrounded by a pool of blood, so I started at the other end and stalled at his ginger jewels.

😆

This has depressing similarities to my neighbour's current war against wood pigeons/collared doves and squirrels.

We live in a semi-rural village, adjacent to open fields.

This has depressing similarities to my neighbour's current war against wood pigeons/collared doves and squirrels.

What possible harm could they do?

Is he mental?

Squirrels can make a right mess of your lawn!

roosting pigeons will defecate The Somme onto your lawn/ patio/ decking overnight and render it a massive useless disgusting biohazard that even your dog wouldn't roll in.

Badgers are worse

My partner's mum feeds urban foxes 🙁

A excellent 35 mile ride was ruined on Saturday when I was on my way home and spotted what looked like a dead fox under a black bin bag at the side of the road, upon closer inspection I'm sure it was a dog and the bag had ripped open somehow, really horrible end to the ride.

Late comer to tis thread but my Jack Russells have an unhealthy obsession with Foxes and seem to keep them away from my garden...nothing against the animal as such and we dont leave litter out for them to eat but the screeching/playing/fighting/mating at all hours gets a bit tiring...and the two dogs love the chase!

We all know that wasn't a fox, it was the family dog.

"That"?

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What possible harm could they do?

I'm not exactly sure - the squirrel hatred comes from concern about them getting into the house/loft I think (how likely is that?).
Pigeons.... again not sure, but I think it's related to her chickens.. concern about disease maybe?

I started at the other end and stalled at his ginger jewels

Congratulations! This made me snort my tea!

hora - Member
Why do you want to get rid of Foxes? What have they done wrong?

Fear for your Toddlers? WTF. Don't ever move to Australia or other country then. Jesus wept.

So what we have established here is that prejudice against gingers isn't just restricted to the human ones then?

This made me snort my tea!

i see foxes all the time, never noticed any issue with them even though they do seem more common.

I think it's only a matter of time before a fox kills a baby or young child, We've already had a few attacks. When I was a kid (40 years ago) foxes where nocturnal creatures and quite timing. Now they wander around in broad daylight, are generally not bothered by people or most dogs. Their behaviour is changing and there is a reason farmers hate them, they kill for fun, not just to eat. Saw one in central London outside my flat a few weeks ago, wandering around in brad daylight. I would be quite surprised if they eat many mice or rats, our careless piling on rubbish on the streets gives them enough free food.

The thing is we have already had two reported attacks but the fact that people have reported a fox attack on a child does not mean it happened there are a significant number of dog attacks on children the owner of a dangerous dog that gets out of control faces prison and destruction of the dog . there is an incentive to report dog attacks by the family pet as something else . We have 3 foxes regularly in our garden I would not wrap crankbrat in ham and leave him alone to play but nor do I worry . My biggest issue with them is they appear unwilly to go for cats.

unwilly

Well, it would appear that something has happened to one of the foxes as one was lying in the back garden covered in snow this morning. And the binmen had just been...
...and before I get blamed, we haven't put out poison, or shot it, or put a trap down or anything like that.
Talking to a friend last night, her mother feeds foxes and she was heading round with some meat bones and packets of cat food for them....