Sooo... I found a baby fox

[Calamity1971]

Most important thing is to keep the garden clean and tidy.

Also, they don't like it if you move things around regularly.

If you can get it, sprinkle human hair and men's urine around the den.

Turn the hose on them if you see them.

You can also buy both spay and sonic fox deterrents.

Nuclear option - dig out the den, or block the holes (when they're not in it).

I have a fox trap, but they're not cheap (and you're a bit far away for a lens of it).

Why not give the local hunt a bell whilst ya about it. Christ.

 

[kalidarkone]

I hope you're joking. If not then you're more of a horrible prick than I realised.. What suggestions Jesus

If you can get it oh we can get it, you're providing it while we hose you.

I dont think Athos read my initial post properly because I wasn't asking how to get rid of them, more about their behaviour.

 

[Athos]

I hope you're joking. If not then you're more of a horrible prick than I realised.. What suggestions Jesus

If you can get it oh we can get it, you're providing it while we hose you.

Bit harsh. They're all humane ways to encourge a fox to move on (to one of its other dens), without harming it.

 

[Athos]

Why not give the local hunt a bell whilst ya about it. Christ.

I've lost lots of chickens to the fuckers, so I don't have a lot of time for foxes. But don't agree with posh twats on horses chasing them.

 

[Idris2002]

Or Urby

Pope Urban the Fox

 

[Clair De Lune]

Bit harsh. They're all humane ways to encourge a fox to move on, without harming it.

Oh yeah, I'm the harsh one. Fox fiddler. It's got cubs FFS.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Thing is I don't want them

Poor unwanted foxes

 

[nogojones]

Most important thing is to keep the garden clean and tidy.

Also, they don't like it if you move things around regularly.

If you can get it, sprinkle human hair and men's urine around the den.

Turn the hose on them if you see them.

You can also buy both spay and sonic fox deterrents.

Nuclear option - dig out the den, or block the holes (when they're not in it).

I have a fox trap, but they're not cheap (and you're a bit far away for a lens of it).

You could just call the local hunt round. They're normally a lovely bunch.

 

[Elpenor]

I’ve seen foxes jump a 6 feet fence with ease so good luck keeping them out if they want to get in

 

[Calamity1971]

I’ve seen foxes jump a 6 feet fence with ease so good luck keeping them out if they want to get in

As cunning as a fox who's just been appointed as professor of cunning at Oxford university.
Edmund Blackadder.

 

[Treacle Toes]

Bump bump .....
I've noticed a frequent fox in my garden, it usually wanders up to the French doors and I tell it to go away through the glass!

But just now I was in the bathroom looking out of the window, down on to the garden and I saw it again and it is a she with a cub, possibly more. She has dug a burrow? set? Next to the shed....I wondered why I had big mounds of earth appear in my garden.

I haven't actually been in my garden for over a year, mostly because the yogis next door overlook me and have ignored my request to provide the same amount of obscurity that I had before I stupidly accommodated their building works by letting them take the tree in my garden down and the fence. They have replaced the old fence with a slatted version that gives me and them no privacy.

I will be getting a solid fence put up at some point....
Anyway.......I have questions....Will the fox family eventually move on? Or will I have to get rid of them?

Hi love, they will move on, it takes a few months though. I have a vixen and litter in my garden most years. Once they have gone you'll have to fill in the hole etc.

Also, you could get MasterDark1 to start pissing around the garden because they don't like the scent of male urine and will possibly move on sooner as a result. Their biggest predator at the moment are adult dog foxes. It's quite common to find one or more of the cubs killed by other foxes in the area. I have a few cubs buried in my garden from over the years of this happening. Once they mature a little they will start roaming at night with the vixen and eventually stay gone.

If you think it will be hard for the cubs to roam because of the height of the walls/fences I would assist them by placing a few things to help them get up high enough to get out of the garden...this will encourage them to start roaming with mum.

 

[two sheds]

Yes foxes can get over 6 ft fences. Hedgehogs can get over 6 foot fences, too. I read that someone had adopted a blind hedgehog and it scaled a 6 ft fence to get out of the garden

 

[Calamity1971]

Yes foxes can get over 6 ft fences. Hedgehogs can get over 6 foot fences, too. I read that someone had adopted a blind hedgehog and it scaled a 6 ft fence to get out of the garden

They have to free fall once on top though.

 

[two sheds]

They gliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide down

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Anyway.......I have questions....Will the fox family eventually move on? Or will I have to get rid of them?

they might decide they like it there

mum-tat (who lives a couple of streets inside the south circular road in SE London) has had foxes in her garden for years - probably on the 2nd or 3rd generation by now (there have been cubs a couple of times)

i did once dream that she'd adopted one of them as a house pet but as far as i know she hasn't yet...

 

[Elpenor]

Yes foxes can get over 6 ft fences. Hedgehogs can get over 6 foot fences, too. I read that someone had adopted a blind hedgehog and it scaled a 6 ft fence to get out of the garden

I had visions of them using stilts

 

[two sheds]

They didn't specify

 

[Elpenor]

They didn't specify

Just spotted it was blind, it could have used its white stick as a stilt

 

[Puddy_Tat]

one of mum-tat's foxes - about 6 feet away from the kitchen window

 

[Aladdin]

My uncle had two fox cubs he rescued. He let them stay in the house...they loved eating his sheets. Eventually they grew up and left.
That was in the middle of a city!
They were lovely

 

[two sheds]

Some russians bred silver? foxes for gentleness traits over multiple generations and ended up with really friendly tame foxes. Would have loved one of them but you wouldn't be able to take it for a walk for being attacked by dogs

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Hedgehogs can get over 6 foot fences, too.

They can jump over 6 foot fences?

 

[krtek a houby]

I hope you're joking. If not then you're more of a horrible prick than I realised.. What suggestions Jesus

If you can get it oh we can get it, you're providing it while we hose you.

Set the hounds on him

 

[Clair De Lune]

Set the hounds on him

Release the hell kittens

 

[Athos]

You could just call the local hunt round. They're normally a lovely bunch.

There's a world of difference between their cruelty and the humane methods of encouraging the fox to move to another of its dens that I suggested.

 

[nogojones]

There's a world of difference between their cruelty and the humane methods of encouraging the fox to move to another of its dens that I suggested.

Normally a section 21 notice works, but because of covid it takes a bit longer than usual as you have to give them 6 months.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

I'll never understand why people don't welcome lovely creatures like foxes in their area. You could have a menagerie in your garden kalidarkone

 

[tony.c]

Yes foxes in the garden would eat any seagull that lands there.

 

[two sheds]

I'll never understand why people don't welcome lovely creatures like foxes in their area. You could have a menagerie in your garden kalidarkone

Do you have any spare gulls you could pass on to help?

Grrr beaten to it

 

[Athos]

I'll never understand why people don't welcome lovely creatures like foxes in their area. You could have a menagerie in your garden kalidarkone

Even if you don't keep chickens, they're a pest; they stink, they're noisy, they dig, they go through the bins, and they shit.