animal noises

[miss_me]

every night outside at around 11pm there is the most horrific screaming noise. It sounds like a girl being murdered and is so loud. We have squirrels, badgers and foxes in the garden - could any of them be making the noise. At first thought it was animals getting killed but it is literally every night so cant be really...

[CT]

Probably foxes.

[razza]

Foxes make one hell of a noise,especially when they are breeding.

[kipchik]

We live in the city,we have a large woods opposite us and one night there was a hell of a scream outside,made me go cold,my hubby was brought up on a farm,he said it was a fox,we looked out of window and you could see her at edge of the woods,just under a lamp post,horrible noise though!!

[WendyS]

Am sure it's almost certainly foxes. They visit us regularly at night (to be fed) and their mating calls can sound exactly as if a female is screaming out for help. The first time I heard it I nearly leapt out of bed and rung the police thinking somebody nearby was being attacked or raped. Now we've got used to it, but if you're not familiar with the sound, I agree, it can be quite terrifying.