Has anyone got any ideas as how to stop rabbits eating new shrubs. We have recently planted the garden areas around our Church/ Conference Centre/Community Centre. Its on an industrial estate with 2 spare sites nearby. The rabbits would appear to come from the nearby large hill/woodland area. We have tried Dog/Cat/Rabbit deterrant spray which they are not supposed to like, but they still chew all the lovely shrubs. Help please ! Thanks.
If you think foxes are frightened of humans, will try and escape when cornered etc, then come to Petts Wood! The well-meaning, but misguided habit of feeding them has made them tame to the point that they often actually stalk people walking with dogs on a lead! And they roam around at all hours of the day, not just at night time. I don't feed them myself and yet when I put my dustbin out one evening, a fox came right up to me and even sat down about a metre away, obviously waiting to be fed and would not respond to 'shooing'. Feeding them encourages dependence on humans and discourages their acquiring skills to fend for themselves, as they should be able to do. Beautiful as they are, they are still vermin. Would you feed rats?
IF the children were attacked by a fox, why did it go upstairs? Had the family been previously feeding it? All seems very strange. Why was it still there for the police to photograph? Fox taking the blame for family pet, perhaps?
If you look at any of the urban foxes around my way they stare back and the moment you glance away, they've vanished. The only time a fox cub came into our house it was TINY. We put it outside - in the morning we found it dead, it had been horribly bitten, possibly by a dog fox or a tom cat.
As for a cull, doesn't work. You take a fox out of its territory - another one moves in.
I'm afraid I do get cross when I hear that foxes have killed chickens or ducks in someone's garden. In the wild some of the birds would have escaped. In captivity they have not been made sufficiently secure from predators, and the fox is reacting to an unnatural environment from which the birds cannot escape. In those circumstances we need to blame ourselves, not our environment - take some responsibility. We lost our ducks to a fox years ago - OUR FAULT.
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Unless you are encouraging foxes by feeding them, the chances are they will not be back.
I blame 24hr drinking.
I can only suggest fencing with chicken wire. It worked in Australia to keep parts of the country rabbit-free.
If you look at any of the urban foxes around my way they stare back and the moment you glance away, they've vanished. The only time a fox cub came into our house it was TINY. We put it outside - in the morning we found it dead, it had been horribly bitten, possibly by a dog fox or a tom cat.
As for a cull, doesn't work. You take a fox out of its territory - another one moves in.
I'm afraid I do get cross when I hear that foxes have killed chickens or ducks in someone's garden. In the wild some of the birds would have escaped. In captivity they have not been made sufficiently secure from predators, and the fox is reacting to an unnatural environment from which the birds cannot escape. In those circumstances we need to blame ourselves, not our environment - take some responsibility. We lost our ducks to a fox years ago - OUR FAULT.