Help: Urban foxes are digging up my lawn

[DiddlyDodds]

How do you know they are Urban Foxes , they may well be countryside foxes on holiday, and thus having a few beers and a party every night, as they have no work in the morning (Chasing hens etc).

 

[Fnaar]

It might be the Fleet Foxes, on a break between touring and recording, and taking the opportunity to indulge themselves.

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

Live trapping is allowed. There are businesses offering the service or just the traps.

GC

Yes, but it's not an option for most amateurs because of the problem of disposing of the fox.

 

[Judderz]

I'd suggest hiding your spade

 

[RWright]

I have seen several foxes in my neighborhood this summer. I have never noticed them before. I was checking state laws on hunting them and it seems that my county does not allow hunting or trapping them at all, maybe by dogs but I am not sure exactly, the laws are sort of confusing. I don't like having them around, they make weird noises at all hours of the night. They will sometimes just lay down in the road no more than 60 yards from my house. I am considering getting a bb gun, it won't kill them but I can make their life miserable enough that they will stay away from my house I think.

A neighbor up the road told me she has been feeding them. Something you should not do.

 

[Leodis]

Concrete your garden the problem is solved

 

[dellzeqq]

http://www.albanypestcontrol.co.uk/pests/foxes.php?gclid=CPOMjJ37wLkCFY7LtAod7kAA8g

I like foxes - one walked down the footpath with me last year with a cheeky smile on his face - but they're not individuals with personal histories.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I like foxes - one walked down the footpath with me last year with a cheeky smile on his face - but they're not individuals with personal histories.

Not even Gerald and Agnes Fox that pop over to raid our bird table?

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

. I am considering getting a bb gun, it won't kill them but I can make their life miserable enough that they will stay away from my house I think.

A neighbor up the road told me she has been feeding them. Something you should not do.

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Something that doesn't harm them, but gives them a nasty shock is ideal. I used to stop cats stalking birds in my garden with a handful of earth. There's an old gamekeeper's trick of taking the pellets out of a shotgun cartridge, and filling it with rock salt. Cats would hear the blast and have an all over stinging sensation, but be left with not a mark on them. It has to be done from a fair old distance though, to be sure of not actually injuring them.

 

[Soltydog]

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Something that doesn't harm them, but gives them a nasty shock is ideal.

Electric fence? if you know someone who has horses, see if you can borrow some electric fence tape, posts & energiser

 

[Aperitif]

When I had a garden, I used to pee everywhere. Then we started getting foxes...Seriously though, rvw (reynard v wee?) it was the method I used. The foxes got fed up getting wet. It was cold standing around in the garden all night too.
Lion poo is another remedy. I kid you not - ask Charlie for some...he could just pop over the road from his office at ZSL and get you a few scoops in his lunch hour! A quick brown lion to get a quick brown fox perhaps?

 

[Aperitif]

Short hose pipe attached to infrared cat scarer?

Do infra red cats look foxy at night, Greg, or is it one of those gadgets you buy from the Saturday section in The Telegraph?

 

[dellzeqq]

When I had a garden, I used to pee everywhere. Then we started getting foxes...Seriously though, rvw (reynard v wee?) it was the method I used. The foxes got fed up getting wet. It was cold standing around in the garden all night too.
Lion poo is another remedy. I kid you not - ask Charlie for some...he could just pop over the road from his office at ZSL and get you a few scoops in his lunch hour! A quick brown lion to get a quick brown fox perhaps?

it's your age.

And, while it's kind of you to offer, if you think TMN is going to have you come round her place with your todger out.......heavens above man, she lives in (insert name of thoroughly respectable South Coast town)

 

[Aperitif]

it's your age.

And, while it's kind of you to offer, if you think TMN is going to have you come round her place with your todger out.......heavens above man, she lives in (insert name of thoroughly respectable South Coast town)

It always has been.
And look at the state of the rest of me.
@charlie b - make that two panniers of merde de lion s'il vous plait. Actually, TMN, if you have a few 'Dan de Lions' on your grass, perhaps they could help..?

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Something that doesn't harm them, but gives them a nasty shock is ideal. I used to stop cats stalking birds in my garden with a handful of earth. There's an old gamekeeper's trick of taking the pellets out of a shotgun cartridge, and filling it with rock salt. Cats would hear the blast and have an all over stinging sensation, but be left with not a mark on them. It has to be done from a fair old distance though, to be sure of not actually injuring them.

My version of that has been to use a catapult to fire a handful of peanuts at the unwanted visitor (dog, cat, fox). Most of them miss and hit the fence making a scary racket and the few that hit don't do any injury. Then the ammo is later eaten by the local hedgehog, squirrel or birds.

An eco-friendly weapon!

GC