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We have flowerbeds at the front and the foxes try digging under the house. It has turned in an annual event - they dig by night, I fill in the hole during the day. Filing the hole with bricks and covering with earth has done the trick this year.


In protest they seem to have made a mess on the lawn and danced all over the car


S.

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Dbrskh Wrote:

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> For the last 2-3 nights I have been woke up at

> around 3-4am by a screaming/screeching

> animal...it?s like a constant ?aaahhh, aaaahhhh?.

> It?s in between EDG and Trossachs road. Is it

> foxes? They sound horrible.


Not mating season for Foxes .. Which is noisy.


Fox mating season

Foxes breed just once a year. The mating season begins in January when the screeching mating cries can be heard during the night and the early hours. A litter of four to five cubs is born about late March, and the cubs remain exclusively inside the den for about six to eight weeks.


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DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Dbrskh Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > For the last 2-3 nights I have been woke up at

> > around 3-4am by a screaming/screeching

> > animal...it?s like a constant ?aaahhh,

> aaaahhhh?.

> > It?s in between EDG and Trossachs road. Is it

> > foxes? They sound horrible.

>

> Not mating season for Foxes .. Which is noisy.

>

> Fox mating season

> Foxes breed just once a year. The mating season

> begins in January when the screeching mating cries

> can be heard during the night and the early hours.

> A litter of four to five cubs is born about late

> March, and the cubs remain exclusively inside the

> den for about six to eight weeks.

>

> DulwichFox




Then what kind of creature is making that noise?! It?s horrible. It?s even waking my husband up and not even our crying kids at night (with the monitor on his side) will wake him up!

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Aside from their faeces stinking up ours and our neighbouring gardens I've never really liked them. Memories of masssive chicken overkill (with only one or two chickens taken) and similar lambing situations I witnessed through childhood don't heal well. There's not much you can do though - killing your local foxes just frees up space for others to move in. Howl away Foxy!
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SpringTime Wrote:

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> Aside from their faeces stinking up ours and our

> neighbouring gardens I've never really liked them.

> Memories of masssive chicken overkill (with only

> one or two chickens taken) and similar lambing

> situations I witnessed through childhood don't

> heal well. There's not much you can do though -

> killing your local foxes just frees up space for

> others to move in. Howl away Foxy!


I am always amazed how ignorant Country Folk are about Wild Animals.


Fox Hunting.. The Shooting of Foxes and the general persecution of Foxes has forced them to move into the cities.

They still have to overcome the dangers of Cars and other traffic but are safer here than in their natural

environment of the countryside.


Foxes are beautiful creatures and it is a privilege for all of us, especially children to be able to see them

on our streets.


Education not Ignorance..


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P.O.U.S.theWonderCat Wrote:

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> There's this thing called an opinion Foxy. You've

> got yours. Other people have got theirs. Just

> because someone doesn't find foxes beautiful when

> you do doesn't make them ignorant.


There are different meanings to the word Ignorant


1. discourteous or rude


2. lacking knowledge or awareness .


I was not suggesting they were discourteous or rude.. impolite ? ill-mannered


I was suggesting they seem to lack knowledge of the Fox as a wild creature's needs.

Like the need to feed itself like all wild creatures.


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