Works for me too, Fidget, but your photos are much better than mine.
Once I saw a mummy fox and four cubs playing in the paddock behind my house.
My scary creature is a grass snake that lives in my flower beds. It sometimes suns itself on the terrace and sometimes gets a fright when I put the sprinkler on. But it's really scared of me.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Get yourself a water scarecrow kev. You hitch it up to an outside tap. I got it because of the hellish problems with cats round here, but they're supposed to be effective with foxes too. It works on the resident squirrels as well if they get within range of the sensor!
Foxes tunnel under my fences to kill birds. They're fine if you have a rural/semi rural position as they keep well enough away from areas you, and other animals, use, but they can be a b****y nuisance in more urban and built up areas. We had a few at the last house in the wild bit on the other side of our driveway. They caused far more bother to the sheep farmer though...
I must admit I am a bit excitable at times, but to see a living fox in our garden would be one of the highlights of the year for me, however as there are none on our island everyone would think I had been hallucinating! Foxes are beautiful creatures, but I can understand why you would not want one moving into your garden if you keep chickens or other domestic pets kev van.
Our cats gang up on foxes and see them off. Once Smoky had a fight with one and won although I had to take him to the vet with a bite wound on his neck.
Now the foxes tend to stay away, I haven't seen one in our garden for some time and we live in the country on the South Downs,
We see foxes most times we look out of the bedroom window between midnight and sunup. Sometimes they wake us with their noisy barking. They're nothing to worry about unless you keep poultry or small furry animals as pets in your garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow, those photos are amazing Fidgetbones. Foxes beautiful, wish I could see one in my garden but it's all enclosed. I don't understand the title of the thread really, what has the fox done to make it horrible? Unless it's doing damage, I can't see the problem. Foxes are tiny.
We have terrible problems with foxes (London 'burbs) at the moment. They've spent all spring and summer digging up everything I've planted and pooing on everything else.
The fences are high, but they'll always find a way in (plus I live in hope that a hedgehog will wander in one day and eat some slugs). I used to quite like them before I started gardening, but when all your hard work, not to mention expensive new plants are constantly dug up, it's wearing to say the least. I can sympathise with the OP's complaint.
None of my direct-sown seeds came up because the earth was constantly getting dug up - whole packs of nigella, stock, cornflowers and others - and I kept finding my poor seedlings that I'd spent weeks raising, wilted and dead where they'd been buried or dug up.
I think we all know that the fox was just doing what foxes do, but it's hard not to be a bit cross. Between the foxes and slugs this year, I've felt like giving up at times!
I think that in the suburbs, foxes have been half tamed by people leaving litter or even feeding them and a half tamed wild animal can cause problems, which is a great pity. Wild animals are best left wild. Here in the country, we see foxes regularly and they do dig and poo, as described, but they always run away if disturbed and are not frightening in any way. My little Cavalier spaniel used to love chasing them because they never argued, unlike cats. They are absolutely beautiful creatures, they reduce rabbit numbers a tiny bit and I always feel privileged to see them in the garden. I suggest enjoying rather than feari
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Works for me too, Fidget, but your photos are much better than mine.
Once I saw a mummy fox and four cubs playing in the paddock behind my house.
My scary creature is a grass snake that lives in my flower beds. It sometimes suns itself on the terrace and sometimes gets a fright when I put the sprinkler on. But it's really scared of me.
yes but it's also at a point where its currently easy for a thief to climb over
ill invest in that in the morning. cheers
there are at least 2 foxes outside. one was in front garden according to neighbour who text me but didnt stand watching.
I must admit I am a bit excitable at times, but to see a living fox in our garden would be one of the highlights of the year for me, however as there are none on our island everyone would think I had been hallucinating! Foxes are beautiful creatures, but I can understand why you would not want one moving into your garden if you keep chickens or other domestic pets kev van.
Our cats gang up on foxes and see them off. Once Smoky had a fight with one and won although I had to take him to the vet with a bite wound on his neck.
Now the foxes tend to stay away, I haven't seen one in our garden for some time and we live in the country on the South Downs,
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We see foxes most times we look out of the bedroom window between midnight and sunup. Sometimes they wake us with their noisy barking. They're nothing to worry about unless you keep poultry or small furry animals as pets in your garden.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Wow, those photos are amazing Fidgetbones. Foxes beautiful, wish I could see one in my garden but it's all enclosed. I don't understand the title of the thread really, what has the fox done to make it horrible? Unless it's doing damage, I can't see the problem. Foxes are tiny.
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We have terrible problems with foxes (London 'burbs) at the moment. They've spent all spring and summer digging up everything I've planted and pooing on everything else.
The fences are high, but they'll always find a way in (plus I live in hope that a hedgehog will wander in one day and eat some slugs). I used to quite like them before I started gardening, but when all your hard work, not to mention expensive new plants are constantly dug up, it's wearing to say the least. I can sympathise with the OP's complaint.
None of my direct-sown seeds came up because the earth was constantly getting dug up - whole packs of nigella, stock, cornflowers and others - and I kept finding my poor seedlings that I'd spent weeks raising, wilted and dead where they'd been buried or dug up.
I think we all know that the fox was just doing what foxes do, but it's hard not to be a bit cross. Between the foxes and slugs this year, I've felt like giving up at times!
I think that in the suburbs, foxes have been half tamed by people leaving litter or even feeding them and a half tamed wild animal can cause problems, which is a great pity. Wild animals are best left wild. Here in the country, we see foxes regularly and they do dig and poo, as described, but they always run away if disturbed and are not frightening in any way. My little Cavalier spaniel used to love chasing them because they never argued, unlike cats. They are absolutely beautiful creatures, they reduce rabbit numbers a tiny bit and I always feel privileged to see them in the garden. I suggest enjoying rather than feari