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Foxes
Tried lots of ways to deter foxes from my garden, they're a local resident family, no joy, any ideas please ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If you've got dogs, foxes can cause a lot of barking in the early hours.
Another problem with dogs and foxes - dogs love rolling in fox poo, it's like catnip to them and the stench is horiffic.
Foxes love digging up everything that is freshly planted and they will eat any fruit and veg that you're growing.
Foxes will eat hedgehogs occasionally, and not as tidily as badgers. They also eat birds, one took a wood pigeon sitting on her nest in my garden this year.
So they can be problematic.
Foxes are always digging up my garden. One of them sprayed my wildlife camera and I had to throw it away as it stank and so did I when I tried to take the film chip out of it. They also messed half way up the stem of my chilli plant so that had to go as well. They can spread mange to household dogs and I`m sure the reason a lot of cats go missing around here is because of foxes. I spray diluted Jayes spirit around the parts where they dig which seems to work for a short while at least.
barry: //They also eat birds, one took a wood pigeon sitting on her nest in my garden this year.//
I'm afraid that is simply nature, 'Red in tooth and claw'. If s/he hadn't scoffed your pigeon s/he'd have only taken something else in another location. It's going on all around us and we can't play God.