Can I trap foxes?

[Tin Pot]

Two weeks ago I planted some lovely flowers with my daughter, it was you're standard "Quality Time With Child" and I felt quite happy having brightened up the gardens too.

Not long after I discovered a plant dug up. Then a flower pot emptied. Now, twice, a flowerbed tunnelled into.

I think it's foxes, and I want to kill them for their crimes.

Can I lay traps for foxes?

I'm interested in bear trap styles, or anything specifically suited to foxes but I don't mind losing a squirrel or two in the process of obtaining retribution.

 

[Hill Wimp]

No.

 

[HertzvanRental]

Had this problem a few years ago. Bought a "sonic deterrent" ,I think from e-bay. Seemed to work ok as they left and seen no sight of them since.

 

[cardiac case]

Could be badgers.

 

[slowmotion]

A pack of hounds?

 

[Hill Wimp]

A pack of hounds?

Perhaps you could tempt foxy feccker away with your mousey feccker or have you sucessfully despatched it by now.

 

[slowmotion]

Here's an article.
http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/environment/environmentalhealth/pestcontrolservice/urbanfoxes.aspx

 

[slowmotion]

Perhaps you could tempt foxy feccker away with your mousey feccker or have you sucessfully despatched it by now.

He hasn't been seen for a while but you never can tell with MF. They are going to start bashing the house next door about shortly. I'm expecting an influx of refugees.

 

[Moon bunny]

Quite apart from the fact that foxes are wild animals, know nothing of Human laws and so cannot be criminals, the mere possession of "bear type" gin traps has been illegal for years. Then assuming you have legally (using a cage trap or snare*, which must be checked just after sunrise) caught a fox you must then either release it (for it to come back again) or despatch it humanely, which for foxes means firearms (air rifles are not suitable) or lethal injection. Also take into account that if you so much as tickle a hedgehog, otter or any other protected species and you could be in trouble. Much better just to scare them away.

*Best of luck with that, foxes are not known as sly and cunning for nothing.

 

[Cp40Carl]

Two weeks ago I planted some lovely flowers with my daughter, it was you're standard "Quality Time With Child" and I felt quite happy having brightened up the gardens too.

Not long after I discovered a plant dug up. Then a flower pot emptied. Now, twice, a flowerbed tunnelled into.

I think it's foxes, and I want to kill them for their crimes.

Can I lay traps for foxes?

I'm interested in bear trap styles, or anything specifically suited to foxes but I don't mind losing a squirrel or two in the process of obtaining retribution.

Sure it's not a cat? They cause mayhem in gardens - kill birds and frogs, digging in soil, dumping and urinating everywhere. I might get a fox just to chase them away...

 

[doog]

Sure it's not a cat? They cause mayhem in gardens - kill birds and frogs, digging in soil, dumping and urinating everywhere. I might get a fox just to chase them away...

Ive got two cats and my garden is mayhem free (thanks to the two jack russels - now thats proper mayhem )

 

[threebikesmcginty]

If you get a red jacket some jodhpurs a big bottle of brandy and act like a total **** you can do what you like.

 

[yello]

I quite like badgers. Norman Lamont looked a bit like a badger, so I quite liked him too even though he was a Tory. Are their any Labour MPs that look like badgers?

 

[nickyboy]

Sounds more like badgers. We get them in the garden every night and they do periodically dig holes in the lawn etc looking for beetles and earthworms

The easiest thing to do is make sure all the access points to your garden are blocked. Badgers can't jump fences like a fox can

 

[Dayvo]

Get a llama.