Fox living in garden

[coccinelle]

I have a fox living in the garden. Well, at the bottom of it. I noticed its presence about 10 months ago with its poo. However, over the past couple of weeks I've seen it from the top of the garden moving about the orchard in full daylight. Is this normal for foxes (thought they were night animals) and can foxes be a problem for gadens?

[hc4361]

Foxes do roam during the day, it is normal behaviour.
Shouldn't be a problem for your garden and will keep cats away and kill mice and rats as well.

[coccinelle]

Thank you hc. It must be eating something though there's lots of fruit to be had at the moment if they eat that. The cat rarely ventures down there so probably the reason.

[RATTER15]

Im sure you fox will do you or your garden no harm, It will be getting its food during the night when off out hunting.

[coccinelle]

Yes, ratter but I do see it during the day and the only things to eat down there are field mice and fruits which I wouldn't think would be enough.

[Maxim99]

I live in London and the foxes are getting braver and braver. They play under my window and make a heck of a racket! I like watching the pups playing, but I have a 5 year old dog and one particular fox keeps stalking him on his evening walk, which is worrying, as apart from fleas and mites, they carry Leptospirosis and the vaccination for that only lasts six months and I was up the Vets a few years back with our old dog, and a man's dog had been bitten by a fox and he died, so as you can imagine, this fox is worrying me, as my stupid dog wants to play with him! I can't help liking them, though, and my dog watches them through the window playing around and looks so sad because he can't join in. This is in a communal garden at the bottom of a tower block (where dog's are not allowed to go, but the kids are) near a large park next door to West Ham Football ground and they stroll about the park in the day time as bold as brass!

[islasmum]

When I used to live in Sutton in Surrey, they were around us all the time and pretty fearless. I hate them, think they are vermin - they looked really mangy. One next door neighbour used to feed them, and annoyingly they cut accross our garden to get there, and they'd rub round the juniper tree we had, and gave my dogs mange. Also I used to work nights and this huge dog fox used to sit the the middle of our road, and I had to drive round him lots of times. Now we live near Portsmouth and I haven't seen one since we moved down here, thank goodness.