Foxes

[megan1964]

Hi, I need some good advice on how to stop foxes coming into my garden. At least twice a week foxes come into my garden,come up to my back door and that sets our dog off barking but they don't get scared off by him barking. They just stand there while our dog barks, I end up getting up to see them off myself, still with our dog barking. Does anyone know a way of stopping them from coming over in our garden. We have three cats as well so to put something down that may harm our animal wouldn't do. Please can anyone help.

[clockworkorange]

Lion poo apparently. London zoo can provide. I am serious. Put it in the flower beds. Smells like danger...

[cella]

Moth balls sprinkled on top of the soil works 90% of the time for me. Cats & fixes can't stand the smell apparently!

[aquarius moon]

You are so lucky to have foxes in your garden. So many people outside of London would envy you.

Why would you want to remove them ? What harm are they doing apart from just trying to survive?

[DulwichFox]

What Aquarius Moon says..

It's a privilege to see Foxes in town.

They are beautiful creatures and people need to learn to live along side them.

I had two that used to follow me home or wait for me.

They would sit on my car when it was parked outside my house.

They recognised me.

Sadly foxes do not survive long and they have been long gone.

Well I am DulwichFox and there is a reason for that.

Foxy.

[jacks09]

I do agree they are beautiful creatures but am now in the camp of needing to know how to control them. My garden being dug up and treading in fox pooh repeatedly on my doorstep is trying my patience...

[aquarius moon]

Cats cause more problems in gardens digging up & pooing everywhere.

If you can happily tolerate cat poo (bag it & bin it) then you can do the same for foxes.

And even if you're not happy, bear in mind that foxes are not domestic pets. They are wild animals and have to poo somewhere.

[Mands]

When I put food out for the foxes they stopped pooing in my garden. I also feed the squirrels. I don't have a problem with them.

[Townleygreen]

apparently human male urine can work. A friend keeps jars of it by the loo and then it is used to mark their territory. The foxes don't trespass. You have to keep doing it though.

[megan1964]

Thanx for that advice everyone, I'm not saying I want to harm the fox, it's not that I don't like the look of them, I didn't mind seeing them in my garden a few years ago befor We got our dog that looks like a baby fox. I don't want the barking of our dog when they comes to the back door. Our dog is only protecting his home.

[DulwichFox]

Mands Wrote:

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> When I put food out for the foxes they stopped

> pooing in my garden. I also feed the squirrels. I

> don't have a problem with them.

That's very true.. I put food by the wheel of my car. They seem to take one piece

of food and run off to eat it or save it for later. They never come into my small garden.

Some times they sit or stand outside my gate. They are very patient.

Even when I leave my door open to get something for them to eat, the Never venture

inside my garden.

Whereas dogs scoff their food down, Foxes eat very slowly and quiet delicately.

It's amazing to stand back and watch them.

Sometimes if I put out fish the local cat grabs it and the Fox stands back.

Foxes are scared of cats and will seldom take one on.

Care needs to be taken when feeding Squirrels

Peanuts and Corn Are Not Good For Squirrels!

Peanuts are not nuts! They are legumes,and unless a squirrel lives next to a field of peanuts where they might dig some

up to eat, they are not a typical food that squirrels eat! Peanuts have very poor nutritional quality. An occasional peanut

will not hurt a squirrel as long as its shell is not growing an invisible toxic mold that can kill them.

Field corn is also not a natural food for squirrels, and can grow the same

deadly mold! Yet millions of people put ears of dried corn out for squirrels.

http://www.squirrelnutrition.com/what-to-feed-squirrels.html

Foxes eat meat and do not like / eat Quorn meat substitute.

DulwichFox

[DulwichFox]

megan1964 Wrote:

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> Thanx for that advice everyone, I'm not saying I

> want to harm the fox, it's not that I don't like

> the look of them, I didn't mind seeing them in my

> garden a few years ago befor We got our dog that

> looks like a baby fox. I don't want the barking of

> our dog when they comes to the back door. Our dog

> is only protecting his home.

It's not just Foxes that makes dogs bark. My road has very short front gardens.

When I walk down my road in the evening, there are 2-3 dogs that regularly bark as I walk past.

They are protecting their home but also curious or excited. Ask any Postman lol

Foxy

[Earl Aelfheah]

You shouldn't feed foxes regularly - they are wild animals and there is a danger of breeding dependency. If you are going to occasionally feed them, then please clear up any uneaten food after you have watched them eat, otherwise you will attract rats.

[YukonBob]

Just call the local hunt in.

[DulwichFox]

rahrahrah Wrote:

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> You shouldn't feed foxes regularly - they are wild

> animals and there is a danger of breeding

> dependency. If you are going to occasionally feed

> them, then please clear up any uneaten food after

> you have watched them eat, otherwise you will

> attract rats.

I do not feed them regularly. They take up food within 5-10 mins even when there is no sign of a fox.

They do not leave anything that is suitable for them to eat.

They like fried chicken. They do not like spare ribs.

They like raw / cooked steak.

They also catch and eat rats & mice.

Foxy

[Jeremy]

If you feed foxes and squirrels, you may as well feed rats, mice and pigeons too.

[DulwichFox]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> If you feed foxes and squirrels, you may as well

> feed rats, mice and pigeons too.

I do not feed Squirrels. Squirrels are pests like rats and mice.

DulwichFox

[Robert Poste's Child]

Townleygreen Wrote:

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> apparently human male urine can work. A friend

> keeps jars of it by the loo and then it is used to

> mark their territory. The foxes don't trespass.

> You have to keep doing it though.

I've confessed to doing this on previous threads and I find it works. You need early-morning pee, preferably male, in an old washing-up liquid bottle, add garlic, leave to ferment for a few days then squirt around gateposts and anywhere you see evidence they've been. Repeat every day or two in wet weather, less often if it's dry. Your own pets shouldn't mind too much as they know your smell already. Doesn't harm the foxes, just makes them go elsewhere.

[DulwichFox]

Very strange that why people are complaining about late night party dwellers urinating in the street,

some people here are suggesting leaving human urine to ferment for a few day then squirt it around

their gate posts. ??

I sometimes lose the will to live.

DulwichFox

[Jeremy]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> I do not feed Squirrels. Squirrels are pests like

> rats and mice.

>

Well... squirrels don't go through our rubbish or kill our pets...

[Robert Poste's Child]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Very strange that why people are complaining about

> late night party dwellers urinating in the

> street,

> some people here are suggesting leaving human

> urine to ferment for a few day then squirt it

> around

> their gate posts. ??

>

> I sometimes lose the will to live.

Would you prefer people to use chemicals or broken glass? It's completely natural, biodegradable and renewable. I'm not suggesting spraying it anywhere else.

Pretty sure I haven't said anything about people peeing in the streets either, so not sure what you're implying there, but never mind.

[Mustard]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > I do not feed Squirrels. Squirrels are pests

> like

> > rats and mice.

> >

>

> Well... squirrels don't go through our rubbish or

> kill our pets...

They do go into lofts and chew the wiring though, it happened to me.

[aquarius moon]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> If you feed foxes and squirrels, you may as well

> feed rats, mice and pigeons too.

Yes, you may as well ;-)

[DulwichFox]

... and any food left over, you can feed your kids... :)

[LadyDeliah]

Get a dog flap.