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Foxes
Sue 27
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I'm having problems with foxes disturbing soil and soiling my garden. Its happening every night. I've tried dog deterrents but that doesn't work. Can anyone advise best course of action please
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A gun Sue...
Sorry- but if you're rural....
What sort of conditions do you have - boundaries for instance. They can get in quite easily by jumping or tunneling, but if you have a decent height of fence, hedge or wall, you might be able to block holes well enough so that they go for easier pickings elsewhere. I'm assuming you don't leave anything out that encourages them - food etc - but if you have neighbours, they sometimes have misguided ideas about 'cute' little foxes coming in. Do you know if there's a family of them living near you ?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Many foxes around here.
They have their routes through gardens usually by burrowing under fences or forcing fencing to allow them through.
They're on their way from A-B, if you find where they're coming in/out and block it, they just make another. I tried for years but foxes do what foxes do. There's no easy answer.
If there's nothing to eat in your garden they're probably en route to some tasty morsel in someone else's garden.
My dog often spots one down the garden at night and flies down the garden after it with much barking and there's fox poo somewhere on the lawn every morning.
Short of getting a dog and leaving it outside, you may just have to accept your visitors. Or put in fencing round your garden to a below soil depth of 18" like a chicken coup!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
This time of year young adult males are being ejected from the clan and go out to find their own territory and this is when we sometimes find foxes in areas where they've not been before. Try to make sure you and your neighbours make him feel unwelcome - lock up poultry and small pets, don't leave food out that might tempt them to visit. Set up intruder lights that will switch on when they come into your garden (just for a couple of months your neighbours will have to be understanding). Hopefully the fox will move on
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
at a previous house my next door neighbours fed foxes every night, meat on the plastic trays it comes in from the supermarket. There was no talking to them about it. Every morning there was a fresh pile of fox poo and a discarded plastic tray in my garden.
All i used my garden for was picking up litter. It was very annoying.
Human urine or human hair
Thanks everyone for your tips. We have six foot fence all around our garden and I can't see any way they are getting in under the dance. I think they may be coming in over the top (I think there is probably only one fox). As far as I know none of my neighbours are leaving out food, and I certainly don't leave anything to encourage them. I have heard about human urine, I may have to get my husband to wee around the garden, as a last resort. I've also heard of putting down orange peel, I may give that a go too.