Foxes, and how to get rid

[thfc2001]

Have had a couple of foxes getting a bit too comfortable in our garden of late - digging up flower baskets, digging a hole under our fence and leaving a full sunflower, roots and all, dug up from next door in our garden and leaving little presents on our doorstep (and also, oddly, a water bottle).

Anyone have any tips on how to get rid off them (humanely)? Sure I have seen similar threads on here in the past..

[Spartacus]

Soak a cloths in jeyes fluid and leave them where the foxes frequent. The smell drives them away 

[curlylocks]

The Fox Project is a fantastic organisation and offer the following advice on their website https://foxproject.org.uk/pages/deterrence

 

I've contacted them via Facebook regarding non urgent fox welfare queries and they've been super responsive and helpful. 

[Hen123]

Get a male member of your household to regularly urinate around the perimeter of your garden. That or get a dog. 

[thfc2001]

Ha cheers - will look into these!

[Sue]

9 hours ago, curlylocks said:

The Fox Project is a fantastic organisation and offer the following advice on their website https://foxproject.org.uk/pages/deterrence

 

I've contacted them via Facebook regarding non urgent fox welfare queries and they've been super responsive and helpful. 

Thank you for this. 

I've got three large holes dug by foxes in a very small garden! I haven't seen any actual foxes or any other sign of them.

I think it's possible they may have been after ground nesting bees, as one of the holes is in a place I had white tailed bees nesting in the past.

I've ordered some Scoot (found it cheapest on eBay with free delivery).

10 hours ago, Spartacus said:

Soak a cloths in jeyes fluid and leave them where the foxes frequent. The smell drives them away 

It would probably drive everyone else away as well, though - I like to sit in my garden!

Edited 16 hours ago by Sue

[HeadNun]

I had one leaving me a present outside my back door, three nights running. I made a spray of chilli flakes and garlic in water and sprayed it all over the poo sites (after cleaning them up!) and there was no repeat offending. It may be a coincidence...

[TWB Cat Sitter]

As wonderful as The Fox Project is, contacting them should be limited to emergency cases only. Specially at the moment, as they need all the help they can get to support foxes sustaining life-threatening injuries.

Contact Fox-A-Gon for non-lethal fox control: https://fox-a-gon.co.uk/

Edited 12 hours ago by TWB Cat Sitter

[Sue]

Foxangels

4 hours ago, TWB Cat Sitter said:

As wonderful as The Fox Project is, contacting them should be limited to emergency cases only. Specially at the moment, as they need all the help they can get to support foxes sustaining life-threatening injuries.

Contact Fox-A-Gon for non-lethal fox control: https://fox-a-gon.co.uk/

Fox Angels will help if you find an injured fox or need help to remove a fox from your house.

https://www.foxangelsfoundation.org/

They have locally (to ED) based volunteers and in my experience are very quick to respond if you message them via  their Facebook page.

I sadly had a dying fox in my garden one year, and no other organisation I tried could help. Fox Angels took him to a vet (sadly he couldn't be saved) 

Edited 8 hours ago by Sue

[TWB Cat Sitter]

Respectfully, the Fox Angels Foundation need all the volunteers they have to tend to emergency call-outs, & should not be used as a fox deterrent service unless the fox is in danger. Forward all fox deterrent concerns to Fox-A-Gon so not to overwhelm these rescues. 

[Sue]

22 minutes ago, TWB Cat Sitter said:

Respectfully, the Fox Angels Foundation need all the volunteers they have to tend to emergency call-outs, & should not be used as a fox deterrent service unless the fox is in danger. Forward all fox deterrent concerns to Fox-A-Gon so not to overwhelm these rescues. 

I wasn't suggesting they should be used as a fox deterrent service!

I thought I had explained that in my post.

I posted information about them and what they do because you had posted about The Fox Project!

Edited 7 hours ago by Sue