[Closed] Urban foxes - how to get rid of them

Bring back fox hunting
*ducks for cover *

Wolves should do it.

Well how are they getting in?

take their food supply away.

Urban Fox hunting sounds fun.

I'd love to see a pack of brandy fuelled toffs charge through my neighbours 'oh so perfect' yet still pig ugly garden.

They get in by walking up the front path & jump over the back gate!

Beautiful creatures just trying to make a life in adverse habitat
and probably eating a few rats along the way
Leave em be and feel blessed they are using your garden

Why do people feel the need to kill/remove animals that are just surviving. They help control rats and mice. They produce a damn sight less waste than us lot, and they don't do any harm. Leave them be.

we seem to be overrun with urban foxes

So the urban environment was there first?

Anyhow, make sure there is nothing that would attract them and make sure your, and your neighbours' rubbish is secure and inaccessible to any animals. There has to be and element of coexisting

Someone has 'usefully' suggested a catapult!!!!!

"Mine" can easily come over my 6' fence and are often seen with chicken legs in their mouths. I'd like to turn the catapult on the morons that are feeding good food to bloody foxes!

id love to see some in my garden.

as I said take the food supply away, and I glad the council won't control them. They wouldn't just get an ASBO you know.

Surely you need a "Dogapault"?

We bought a house that was regularly visited by foxes before we moved in.
The garden was very overgrown and apparently they liked to chill in the long grass.
We've cleared the garden and don't leave any food out .
They found a new place to go ,although they have chewed a few balls..
Also had friends that had the fox den under their shed, it was a first world nightmare .

urban foxes are great nothing nicer than seeing them running down the road playing with one another 🙂

far better than the drunken ****s puking in the street imho

We had Aden in our garden when I was a kid it was great you only knew they were there by the snoring in the day.

Best bait I've found for urban foxes is a glass of Lambrini.

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is the catapult suggestion meaning a booby trap that launches the offending animal back out into the street? I doubt it would return 😈

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Note for the hand-wringers before you start sharpening your pitchforks. I too have foxes in the garden. I just ignore them and I have no intention of harming them.

Urinate in your garden - won't help with the foxes but it might make feel less prescious about it.

(it works round here but its the countryside and smell of wee normally equates to incontinent farmer with twelve bore)

'coupling openly' He he, you're funny (in a dumb way). You'd think they'd find a layby or get to hampstead heath like everyone else.

Agree with the co-existing posts but their poo is the most offensive stench in the world and they do seem to like crapping on items like garden toys, balls etc.

I quite like it when foxes visit our garden, like this handsome specimen

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Apparently Weybridge is the place to be for that sort of thing!

Rather the foxes than cats...

As it happens, they came into our environment ie. an urban one as food is easier to come by in such a place..

So, and ignoring the tree huggers, whose really the interloper..?

could be worse they could dig a den under your house

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friends flat in south london

If it's close range, you've got a soft ground back stop and an open ticket I'd probably lean towards .22 rimmy from an upstairs window.

Or you can borrow my wife to scowl at it.

Klunk, did you keep one as a pet?

not my house 🙂

Apparently Weybridge is the place to be for that sort of thing!

I was down there last week.

Was teasing my colleague about it being posh and he was denying it. Then when I was driving out I passed a pet shop with an A4 poster in the window advertising swan food.

Foxes became extinct in Oldham when we found out that when cooked they smell like Hollands pies 😈

hope I have not offended any yonners with this post.

Electric fencing or high level and buried fencing. (friend of mine has his chicken coop area surrounded by electric fencing)

Most of are cities are so densely populated now that Mr Fox will go anywhere he finds comfortable, providing food is relatively close and access is easy.

A place I used to rent had a family of foxes living down the bottom of it - caused no issue...

Just get a lion. Or a tiger. That will keep the fox away! 😉

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-council-offers-advice-on-shooting-foxes-but-says-urban-pest-should-be-starved-first-and-foremost-9863773.html

Lion Poo? Or is that only for cats?

Dog just loves rolling in fox shite 🙁

Believe me: there are lots of things about the urban environment I'd like to get rid of, including some humans. Fixes are not amongst them.

I like them. Plus we are building more and more into their natural environment, forcing them into our backyards. If anything, we own them.

PS: we have lots of them on my estate and never do any harm.

The most effective way of controlling a particular fox is to shoot it . However most urban environments have quite a few foxes which are territorial so you just create a vacancy for a new fox to move in.

As others have said they are attractive animals who keep down rodents and cause less harm and offence than cats. Why enter into a cruel and futile attempt to change nature. If you want to discourage them don't leave food out or in insecure bins.

we had one come visit us back in the autumn:

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he (she?) was so confident he went to sleep right there & then:
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I was laughing at the Lambrini bait joke, then the Office Fox walked past 8)

I don't mind foxes, but it's a nuisance if they get your chickens or the kids guinea pigs

OK sensible answer time...

They will be put off by the scent of human male urine.
Just pee around the perimeter of your garden and they won't come back.

I've noticed they get immune to PIR security lights quite quickly

A couple of solar powered ones set up at bait points is much cheaper than a night vision rifle scope 😈

If you want to discourage them don't leave food out or in insecure bins.

... or your babies behind open doors or cat flaps...

Mr Woppit - Member

... or your babies behind open doors or cat flaps...

We all know that wasn't a fox, it was the family dog.

urban foxes are great nothing nicer than seeing them running down the road playing with one another

far better than the drunken **** puking in the street imho

This ^ Our lovely garden foxes keeps the rat population to a minimum, and a couple of times a year call to each other. Some lucky moonlit nights we get to watch them playing on the lawn.

The tawny owls kick up an almighty racket at regular intervals. I feel lucky.

We don't get any in our garden 🙁

I like foxes but I guess if they were in my garden I'd be worried about our two toddlers. So check the yellow pages for pest control, phone around and you'll probably find someone who'll come around and blow their brains out with a Ruger 10/22.

I like foxes but I guess if they were in my garden I'd be worried about our two toddlers.

Or you could stop leaving your toddlers out overnight

I live in a small village and we regularly get foxes in our garden.

The main problem is that they send the dogs crazy at 4.00 am, the dogs seem to sit up and wait for them as well!

I would let the dogs out and the fox would disappear over the fence but he always comes back and seems to treat the chasing dogs as sport.

I did try the peeing in the back garden thing and it has made no difference.

Today as I'm working at home this morning if I go into the back bedroom I can see a fox in our garden, another in next doors, and another one on top of another neighbours shed. They spent most of last night barking away and have done for the last month, and they're doing it during daytime as well.
We've had our compost bin dug into and holes are appearing in our garden. We don't feed them, we don't really throw food waste away, we don't cook meat at home, so anything that goes out are things like vegetable peelings and the odd bit of bread and most of that is composted.
I now see at least one fox every day in the streets - during daylight as well, which has never been the case in the past.
In west London they're getting to the point where they're out of control, they're not a valued occasional visitor to be cherished, they're a pest.
Maybe if I lived somewhere more romantic like the rest of stw-ers then I'd feel about it differently.

Do you have wheelie bins? If not, pressure the council to switch to them.

Used to get loads and since they switched to wheelie bins, they've largely moved out. I still see them around in places, more in the rural edges of town, but the whole freaky alien sounding screeching at night and rummaging through bins scattering stuff all over the place has stopped. I don't mind them as long as they're not doing those things in my garden.

Sex as a fox must be good, because they sure make a lot of noise doing it.

I live in the country and don't really appreciate them TBH. And why are dogs attracted to their poo so much? The damage they do when the get into a chicken coop is grim as well.It is not like they just kill what they are going to eat.

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and 40 grains of Hogdon H414 seems to do the trick

thestabiliser - Member

I like foxes but I guess if they were in my garden I'd be worried about our two toddlers.

Or you could stop leaving your toddlers out overnight

Quite a few foxes around my parents, one crosses the garden every morning about 7:30am. Presumably the same fox regularly goes off in the opposite direction as early as 4:00pm. It's not entirely uncommon to see them in daylight. I think you're confusing foxes and vampires.

Why do you want to get rid of Foxes? What have they done wrong?

Fear for your Toddlers? WTF. Don't ever move to Australia or other country then. Jesus wept.

I think you're confusing foxes and JimmySavillotronKillBots

Waits 35 minutes for hora to have completely the opposite reaction and be screaming for death to foxes......

Waits 35 minutes for hora to have completely the opposite reaction and be screaming for death to foxes......

I'm just confused how people see them as evil all of a sudden. Please don't look into how many rats and mice live closeby to you. You'll be worried more about diseases from them then.

The sound they can make though- remember first being woken up by one when I lived in London and I thought 'ah that sounds like the Four Horsemen and the Apocalypse arriving' 😆

The famous fox bites toddler case was a really unusual fox seeing it was able to get into the house past the family pit bull bite the toddler then get away unseen.

"Maybe if I lived somewhere more romantic like the rest of stw-ers then I'd feel about it differently. " If you think leeds 7 is romantic you must live in a really grotty area.

7.30am one way, 4pm the other.

Jesus a German Fox on its way to work.

hora

Why do you want to get rid of Foxes? What have they done wrong?

Fear for your Toddlers? WTF. Don't ever move to Australia or other country then. Jesus wept.

I didn't say I had any fear, I was rationalizing why the op might want rid of them. When I take the kids to their grandparents there are a number of foxes quite close, but there are dogs in every house so it's not an issue as they never come close to the house.
As I said I like foxes, but they are basically small wild dogs, so if they were a problem I wouldn't have a problem getting them sorted out.

7.30am one way, 4pm the other.

A punctual German Fox on its way to work.

we've always had a scratty town fox who passes through our garden but never stops - then a just before Christmas a large, much more handsome fox began visiting. I presume he was from out of town and had made his way into the city. we caught him a couple of times sniffing round the back door and round a bin bag (which only had bricks in) and the mrs got a bit paranoid.

a couple of weeks ago it got ran over infront of our house. I went out and had a good look at it. magnificent animal with mahoosive bollocks.
that is all.

crankboy - Member
The famous fox bites toddler case was a really unusual fox seeing it was able to get into the house past the family pit bull bite the toddler then get away unseen.

I still have my suspicion that there's something fishy with that story. Not only went past the dog, family, ignored the kitchen with food and then proceeded to find the toddler, climb into the cot/bed whatever and bite it. Yeah right.

magnificent animal with mahoosive bollocks.

What the bloody ell did you do to it? 😆 😯

!I still have my suspicion that there's something fishy with that story. Not only went past the dog, family, ignored the kitchen with food and then proceeded to find the toddler, climb into the cot/bed whatever and bite it. Yeah right."

You are underestimating how fantastically clever and bold a fox can be.

What the bloody ell did you do to it?

well I didn't want to look at it's head as it was surrounded by a pool of blood, so I started at the other end and stalled at his ginger jewels.

😆

This has depressing similarities to my neighbour's current war against wood pigeons/collared doves and squirrels.

We live in a semi-rural village, adjacent to open fields.

This has depressing similarities to my neighbour's current war against wood pigeons/collared doves and squirrels.

What possible harm could they do?

Is he mental?

Squirrels can make a right mess of your lawn!

roosting pigeons will defecate The Somme onto your lawn/ patio/ decking overnight and render it a massive useless disgusting biohazard that even your dog wouldn't roll in.

Badgers are worse

My partner's mum feeds urban foxes 🙁

A excellent 35 mile ride was ruined on Saturday when I was on my way home and spotted what looked like a dead fox under a black bin bag at the side of the road, upon closer inspection I'm sure it was a dog and the bag had ripped open somehow, really horrible end to the ride.

Late comer to tis thread but my Jack Russells have an unhealthy obsession with Foxes and seem to keep them away from my garden...nothing against the animal as such and we dont leave litter out for them to eat but the screeching/playing/fighting/mating at all hours gets a bit tiring...and the two dogs love the chase!

We all know that wasn't a fox, it was the family dog.

"That"?

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What possible harm could they do?

I'm not exactly sure - the squirrel hatred comes from concern about them getting into the house/loft I think (how likely is that?).
Pigeons.... again not sure, but I think it's related to her chickens.. concern about disease maybe?

I started at the other end and stalled at his ginger jewels

Congratulations! This made me snort my tea!