When our children were young we had a smallholding with foxes living in the adjacent woodland. They never caused a problem as long as the poultry were well fenced and shut up before dark. No problem for the children at all ... they hardly saw them ... I saw them most often as I was up at daybreak milking the goats.
Not sure I'd want them in the garden, but that's only because they can damage flowerbeds etc.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@lauren_mccormick_42yfF7y54a : I sympathise with your apparent 'hosting' of a new fox earth in your garden during ongoing renovation. Urban and rurban foxes generally manage to cope with living alongside humans! The main sticking points I have experienced are when poultry becomes a diet option for the 'lodgers'....! The likelihood is that the foxes are 'newlyweds' needing a place of their own (away from the parents/inlaws..). If your dustbins & compost bins are secured then the foxes will forage elsewhere & so lessen any disturbance in your garden. Try to bear with their comings & goings and enjoy the benefits of observing nature at relatively close quarters...(binoculars help too!).
I think I’ll aim to rig a night vision camera if I can to capture some footage and leave that part of the garden be for the time being. Wheelie bins and compost bins are in a locked shed and far away from the den so shouldn’t be a problem.
Happy to accommodate them for a while, I was upset and surprised that the person who came to investigate said that usually people opt to shoot them to which I declined.
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Not sure I'd want them in the garden, but that's only because they can damage flowerbeds etc.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.