Dog/fox noises- Friern Road

[emza78]

Anyone else heard these really loud "howling" sounds over the last few nights? What are they? Where are they coming from? And how do we make it stop?! I'm knackered!

[first mate]

If the noise sounds like any of these then its foxes.

[MarkE]

Have had it quite a lot this autumn/winter so far, in the roads between Felbrigg and Lordship Lane, at anything between 9pm and 5am. It's like a shrieking sound, and definitely foxes rather than dogs. They've not been around these parts for the last 2-3 weeks, though.

[Whittler]

January is usually the peak of the fox mating season and peak of the cub dispersal (with last years reaching adulthood and becoming a threat to the parents food supply), so they have a lot to 'shout' about at this time of year!

[emza78]

Yes that's it, it's foxes! Directly under our window and shrieking for 10-15 minutes at a time ALL through the night! Is there anything we can do to make them go away?

[first mate]

Short of calling in pest control, I don't think there is.

The noises can be disturbing when you are not quite sure what is going on and especially if you think it mght be a neighbour that is not monitoring/looking after a dog, but this is wildlife and they are just doing what foxes do. Now you know this you may find it easier to filter the noise out. I hope so. When I first heard these noises I thought something was being killed and eaten alive but now I know it's to do with mating, territory, looking after cubs, it doesn't bother me. In some ways it is nice to have some connection with the natural world in the city. Would good earplugs help?

[the-e-dealer]

Yes its foxes.

[Lowlander]

emza78 Wrote:

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> Yes that's it, it's foxes! Directly under our

> window and shrieking for 10-15 minutes at a time

> ALL through the night! Is there anything we can do

> to make them go away?

Male urine. Decant it using an old water bottle or similar in the affected areas. Should push the foxes out.

[*Bob*]

Modern foxes these days laugh in the face of piss. They have mutated into a new breed of super-fox.

In any case, you might be able to do your own, but getting piss into all your neighbours' gardens is a tricky business. Revellers en route home from The Adventure are usually happy to help out where they can.

[the-e-dealer]

I laugh in the face of your piss.

[MarkE]

emza78 Wrote:

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> Is there anything we can do

> to make them go away?

Doubt it - from what I can tell, it's not as if it's rubbish in the street that's attracting them to the area, as they're just prowling around in the middle of the road.

Ask them nicely?

[*Bob*]

the-e-dealer Wrote:

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> I laugh in the face of your piss.

Another satisfied client.

[nimby]

LOL!

[Sue]

You can get electronic devices to deter foxes.

No idea if they work though. Some people seem to think they do, some people seem to think they don't.

I don't mind the foxes on the whole as I like the idea of wild-ish animals living in Sarf Lahndon, and the sound doesn't really bother me now I know what it is.

However I do curse them when they dig large holes in my very small garden, generally around the roots of treasured plants. GRRRRR.

It was nice when one year I had a couple of young foxes sleeping where I could see them from the kitchen window :)

Coming home late at night we once saw a fox making its way along the roofs of parked cars in Ulverscroft Road :)

[KidKruger]

they make some serious noise when makin' whoopee, sort of puts humans to shame. be cool if we could make so much noise during same activities that we freaked THEM out !

[????]

I think it's a bit of a myth it's whoopee noise, i think as said earlier that it's mainly bunging the adolescent males out of the pack.

[SebsC]

We have a battery operated device called FoxWatch(I think) that we bought on the Internet for about ?80. Since installing it a couple of weeks ago, there has been a significant difference. Whilst we can still hear the occasional fox in the distance, the device seems to have stopped them from coming into our garden which massively reduces the number of times we get woken up by them!

[lameduck]

get some of the mystery yellow pee bottles that are on all the corners!

[first mate]

The only thing that bothers me about those sonic devices is the potential impact on other animals, both wild as well as pets.

[SebsC]

Oh no. I hope it doesn't do any unnecessary harm to other animals. However, we have two dogs and it certainly hasn't stopped them from tearing round the garden. Our cat still happily sits out every day on the seat in the garden and the birds still visit the bird feeder each day so I certainly haven't noticed any adverse affect on other animals.

[ChantalDesire]

Defiantly foxes. I live just below DKH school and they make horrendous noises early hours in the morning.

[Mick Mac]

Defiant foxes they certainly are.

[emza78]

Where do foxes go in the daytime??!

[Belle]

We saw two in our back garden today, mid morning, having a scrap/getting amourous, hard to say which.

[maxxi]

Lowlander Wrote:

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> emza78 Wrote:

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Is there anything we can

> do to make them go away?

>

> Male urine. Decant it using an old water bottle

> or similar in the affected areas. Should push the

> foxes out.

And leave any bottles you have left over in a neat stack near the junction of Crawthew Grove and Lacon Road...