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I wouldn't mind them so much, looks like mum and at least one cub, but they have recently started digging and scent marking all over and it absolutely mings.
I've ordered some repellent - we back onto common land and for all I care they can live under my shed (I think) at the back of the garden and then go as far as they like onto common land but any tips for keeping them out of the garden itself beyond regular spraying over with this repellent. I have tried fencing across from the front of the shed but they're good climbers apparently, topping it with 'spikes' maybe?
Good luck with that. They climb and they dig.
Get a dog maybe?
get loads of territorial cats. Bonus: you now have loads of cats 🐱😃
Human urine is a good fox deterrent, as long as you are trying to deter rural foxes. Urban foxes are more to used to human scents so won't be as bothered. So, either go and mark the territory manually or get a few bottles saved up. Bit troublesome if your neighbours overlook your garden, and the missus may not be as keen.
Google fox on railings and then please don't top a fence with spikes.
They are good climbers.. I saw one out of the corner of my eye scuttle up my 6ft tall dry stone garden wall when I opened the kitchen door one night.
I catch a glimpse of them quite often so there's a few around me.
I dont seem to have a problem in the garden though.. Maybe as I have a dog who inevitably pees and poops in my garden they don't hang around?
Solution: get a dog 🙂
Got a dog, they don't seem to mind.
By spikes I mean the short plastic ones to deter climbing, not steel impale-y ones
One has spent the summer digging up the sedum roof outside our bedroom, and scenting either directly outside our window or, even worse, the inlet for our ventilation system.
Apparently it's a long term battle and you just need to work on making it an unpleasant place to be. That takes time. We seem to be on a lull - there was a marking but only of the wall (not the ventilation) and the digging has paused.
I've been spraying with Scoot (I've had a number of people advise this is best)
We've also got solar powered flashing red led 'predator eyes' and an ultrasonic emitter that's triggered by movement. Spikes on their entry routes (top of fences) are the next thing I'm going to get around to.
We had one poke it's head in our front room recently. Scared it off but they are getting far too bold. Idiots down the road have named them , feed them and put their bloody pictures on FB.
Well that's a development.
Part of the foxing has been finding remains of birds on the lawn over the past few weeks - pigeons, a magpie, etc. Just feathers, no carcass.
I was just sat looking out of the patio doors at the rain and swooping down onto a pigeon is some sort of bird of prey. Which it then proceeded to eat. I watched for a few mins and then something disturbed it and it flew off carrying the remains with it.
IDK what it was. Too big I'd have said for a kestrel or sparrowhawk, seemed about twice the size of the pigeon. A quick review of the Wildlife trust website says maybe a buzzard - bit more googling and seems there have been plenty of sightings in this part of Surrey (urban, mile or two north of Guildford)
That was quite amazing (unless you're the pigeon)
Female Sparrowhawks are quite large, I’ve seen them prey on pigeons and magpies. It may be a Buzzard as they’re very common in some places now.
We are just outside Epsom and one of our neighbours took this.
We are parked up in Sospel. It's pitch black. Heard a loud scream and then a clattering and shouting.
Austrian guy in the next van has just had to fight a fox off with his camping chair.
He recons it tried to bite his leg whilst he was reading his phone.
We had some in the garden earlier in the year but they were no problem. I guess we were lucky they were country foxes and not the inner city types
A work colleague has foxes that visit his garden every night. His wife feeds them. Presumably it's the neighbours whose gardens are getting dug up and scent marked.
Urban foxes here. They poo all over ente garden. It's very annoying.
We have foxes visiting our garden occasionally in summer and while they are a pain in terms of damage, they are cute. I snapped this one back in July.
Get some badgers, used to have a fox visit the garden but think these have scared it off
We have a small vixen living in our garden. She doesn't cause any issues although she is very inquisitive and we had to shoo her out of the kitchen one evening despite not feeding her. Much prefer her company to the local cats
In the house i grew up it wasn't the foxes that came snooping around the kitchen it was the fox hounds!