Help: Urban foxes are digging up my lawn

[GrumpyGregry]

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?

As well that it isn't. I'm still waiting on an angled hedge trimmer from The Independent. Harrumph!

 

[Cycling Naturalist]

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

Noise certainly helps. When I read about the shotgun cartridge with rock salt, it said the bang was very important, but you had to pack the cartridge with something as otherwise there was nothing to compress the powder.

 

[classic33]

Cheap booze in a bowl at night. Get them legless.

 

[Globalti]

Here's the answer; substitute cats with foxes and this will work just dandy:

 

[asterix]

[QUOTE 2644603, member: 45"]I'm on the 16th neighbour and things are slowly starting to improve. Mind, we can't get out of the back door now due to the height of the patio.[/quote]

Your neighbourly relations are clearly on a poor footing and so is your patio..

 

[threebikesmcginty]

As an aside, a few weeks back one of our regular foxes was in the garden and he sat down with his back legs stretched out at about 45 degrees apart in front of him, then using his front legs he dragged himself along the ground on his arse, I figured he'd just got a really itchy bottom.

 

[snorri]

We need a more intelligent solution here thanks.

Move to the country.

 

[Cycling Dan]

Since they are digging out dig them and make a trench. Then declare war on them using the old method of trench warfare. Send your other half, children and family pets over the top in a timely manner under a hail of bullets and artillery fire.

 

[snorri]

Taking the foxes?

Nah, you'd have the cruelty people after you if you took the foxes to the country with you. The clue is in the thread title, urban foxes, geddit?

 

[Aperitif]

As an aside, a few weeks back one of our regular foxes was in the garden and he sat down with his back legs stretched out at about 45 degrees apart in front of him, then using his front legs he dragged himself along the ground on his arse, I figured he'd just got a really itchy bottom.

He'd spent the day in some brooks...they have that effect I hear. Or maybe he'd got the foxtrots and the 'thank you' from a grassy ass was welcome.

 

[Tim Hall]

Dad's garden has foxes trying to build an earth in the unkempt wilds of the old compost heap. He phoned, umm, Someone Who Knows, who recommended some foxy deterrent or other. He toddled off to a garden centre to get it, where the bloke sold him mole deterrent instead as it has the same active ingredient (aluminium ammonium sulphate I think) and is cheaper.Current reports are that it seems to be working.

 

[Fnaar]

As an aside, a few weeks back one of our regular foxes was in the garden and he sat down with his back legs stretched out at about 45 degrees apart in front of him, then using his front legs he dragged himself along the ground on his arse, I figured he'd just got a really itchy bottom.

I do that too

 

[Fnaar]

who recommended some foxy deterrent

 

[BigonaBianchi]

Astroturf

 

[Kies]

Cement the garden and use as cycle track with ramp for fast starts