Sooo... I found a baby fox

[farmerbarleymow]

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

Foxes can't fly so the seagulls would be fine.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

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.

That describes humans pretty well.

 

[nogojones]

Release the hell kittens

 

[tony.c]

Foxes can't fly so the seagulls would be fine.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

It's not nice posting snuff videos.

 

[cupid_stunt]

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

Yep, all they leave behind are the wings & loads of feathers, which I've happily cleared up on a few occasions, whilst singing 'another one bites the dust'.

 

[kalidarkone]

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

I think I already do farmerbarleymow...the garden has been left to its self fir a good long while. I'd be more than happy to share the space with the foxes but I'm not sure how safe I'd feel ,specially a vixen with cubs.

They made a right racket at 3am! Knocking over the crap lined up against the wall...thats waiting for me to take it to the dump.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

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)

mum-tat has reported first sighting of a foxlet today, and has now got her camera charged and near the window (she was expecting the patter of tiny paws, as mummy and daddy fox were not particularly discreet about it a few months ago...)

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

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.

I think all of those accusationshave been leveled at me too.

Well maybe not digging..

 

[kalidarkone]

 

[petee]

It's not nice posting snuff videos.

"It's nature so it's fine", as someone said.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

They're beautiful kalidarkone

 

[kalidarkone]

Yes I'm chuffed. I've lived here since 1996 and never had a vixen and cubs living here before.

I dont have chickens, or any prize flowers or vegetables. No chemicals have ever been used in my garden since I've been here so it's a nice safe little space for them.

 

[geminisnake]

I'm jealous, I've seen more foxes in cities than I have living rurally for over 25 yrs

 

[campanula]

Our foxes ('our'!) are back in the woods. My joy would be complete if the old badger sett was populated also...or better still, fox and badger share a den.
Those cute little folded ears! and incy-wincy teeny tails. I love them...but tbh, even the local rats are nicer than the scabby urban ones (there is a family in one of my old woodpiles (NOT next to the horsebox - after the first rat invasion, have learned a bit more about rattish habits).

 

[two sheds]

Neighbours feed foxes and badgers - old scraps and things. Is really sweet to see them coming as night draws in, quite happy to eat alongside each other.

Neighbours have to keep it quiet though because their next door neighbour wouldn't approve .

 

[Puddy_Tat]

mum-tat's resident foxlet (right) and one of the parents (both parents are still around) in her garden nature reserve

she thinks mum-fox is quite young, and has just had one cub this time.

not sure what foxlet has in his / her mouth, from past experience, she has seen foxes finding things like gloves / shoes as toys for cubs to play with.

 

[scifisam]

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

The foxes that infest my garden:

Killed my cat
Killed a few of my chickens
Dig up everything I try to grow, so I now can't grow any veggies or flowers
Bring in stuff they've scavenged from bins and leave rubbish all over the place
Chewed up a garden chair, leaving the filling all around the garden
Pull down and tear up washing if you leave it out at night
Shat on the baby's slide and chewed the sides of it
Shit, generally, all over the place
Howl and shriek all night
Broke several holes in my greenhouse and knocked down and chewed up everything in there - had to give up on having a greenhouse
Dig huge holes everywhere
Occasionally choose my garden to die in, and they're not easy to dispose of from a barely-accessible garden like mine.


Yeah, can't understand why anyone wouldn't want such lovely creatures.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I've got a pair of foxes who prowl along my street and into my garden every night as it's getting darker later they walked past in broad daylight earlier, bold as brass. They live in a nearby quarry.
I wouldn't leave bin bags outside or they'd definitely be in them.

Jesus Sam, yours sound like crack foxes

 

[scifisam]

I've got a pair of foxes who prowl along my street and into my garden every night as it's getting darker later they walked past in broad daylight earlier, bold as brass. They live in a nearby quarry.
I wouldn't leave bin bags outside or they'd definitely be in them.

Jesus Sam, yours sound like crack foxes

It doesn't help, probably, that we actually have to leave our rubbish bags outside - no communal bins and no space for individual bins. Though actually I think most of the rubbish they bring in is from the local takeaways. Occasionally there'll be a used nappy or something (and yes, it's definitely the foxes bringing it) but it's mainly chicken boxes. My problematic neighbour even accused me of leaving chicken out for the foxes, despite me being a vegetarian who used to have pet chickens.

You see them in daylight all the time here. They have no fear of humans whatsoever.