I hate foxes

Weird, I have a fox den at the bottom of my garden and have never experienced any of this. But then I don't have a food waste bin outside or get milk delivered.

My foxes shriek exactly when they are supposed to, according to google. It's actually quite interesting, if you find out why. The fox/child story was dubious, sorry. Also I've had several cats in my garden for years and never once have any been approached. Rabbits and chickens would be, naturally, and foxes are the reason I don't have those. But the den was there before my house was.

I don’t know how they aren’t scared of your dog? I’ve got the softest Labrador in the world but all he has to do is stand on our balcony and stare at them. I was afraid he might do himself a mischief so we have cat proofed. It’s easy.

I don’t understand how you are all having so much of an issue to be honest.

Foxes have no natural predators so will uncontrollably breed and take hold in urban areas due to lack of food resources in the countryside. Many farmyards that used to have roaming chickens no longer do as they just get killed by foxes.

Over-breeding and inter-breeeding will probably lead to the spread of illnesses within the fox populations so that could lead to a reduction in numbers but in a bit of a painful and unhygenic way. Or you could pay someone to kill them for you.

Maybe foxhunting was the most humane and natural solution after all.

And I do like foxes and their wild screams in the night.

They are real pests. They spray their shit all round our garden too OP. Front garden and back garden.

The noise at night is dreadful. I've counted more than 20 in the road outside our house one evening. Then the mess the next day.

They ruin the garden and bring other peoples stuff and rubbish into the garden too.

They aren't at all scared of people. They are real vermin.

There are loads of foxes by mý fathers house but they don't come near the bins or houses. They live in the factory and waste ground across the road. They've no need to scavenge though as all the neighbours feed them.

The attacking babies is a myth.

Is it though? Why wouldn't they attack a baby if the opportunity arose? It's surely no different to attacking a chicken or cat.

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urban foxes are so brazen because there are people who think they’re cute so they’ll feed them. Their pleasure at feeding the foxes outweighs anything else - that’s if they even think about the impact of what they’re doing. Which they don’t because they’re “helping” the foxes. Foxes don’t need our help.

apparently they're pretty silent outside of mating season

someone needs to tell our local foxes that then.

You mean WE are the pests, constantly encroaching in their territory and destroying their homes?

I never understand these posts, there are foxes round me (we see them last thing at night regularly) and we never experience all these issues? Never raid bins, no issues with diarrhoea all over, scattered rotting rubbish on the road, screeching noises? We very very occasionally see a small dryish scat somewhere but that's it??

I love them.

*bollocks

How horrible for you. How dare these creatures try to survive and life in "our world" !!!

I'm sure it was just billocks that friend told me, but apparently they're pretty silent outside of mating season

www.lancswt.org.uk/blog/charlotte-varela/secret-lives-foxes

Foxes are a real nuisance to people serious about conserving small animals. Instead of protecting everything as we do now, we need to be selective. The pressures of changes to habitat caused by farming changes, because of climate changing. New crops have been developed.
Increase in English human population and spread of urban areas are main causes.

Loss of ground nesting birds such as skylarks. Loss of hedgehogs and near extinction of red squirrels have been magnified by increase in protection of foxes and badgers.
The increase in grey squirrels is causing death everywhere. They plunder nests for eggs and young garden birds.
The bloody magpies are now protected so fewer robins and finches.

We must change and protect the victims not the predators.

I prefer foxes to many people. The attacking babies is a myth. Foxes territory is constantly built on. Where do you expect them to go 🙄 Some awful comments here. True colors shown.

Pure scum

That's people with your attitude not the foxes

Someone told me that the screaming noise is them mating

unless they are mating all year round, this isn't true. Also, I've seen them shrieking at each other from a distance. They may well shriek whilst mating but that certainly isn't the only time. It's just the noise they make.

my kids and I used to sing along to that "What does the fox say?" song and then make a god awful shrieking noise at the right moment.

Diddums.

It's because of people like you that means the government will get away with scrapping 705 laws that protect nature and the environment.

If it means that much to you, get a sonic cat scarer from the RSPB which works with foxes as well as cats.

And no fox killed a baby. The parents lied thet a fox attacked their baby. You just made the death up for emotional manipulation to get people on your side.

I haven’t found any stories about a fox killing a baby, but I found at least three about babies/children being attacked and injured by a fox. No reason to think it couldn’t happen. Obviously rare but best not to give them the opportunity to come in the house.

None of which changes the fact that they are a massive nuisance to some of us! It’s not entitled to have a rant about foxes. None of us are suggesting killing them or owt.

There was no news story where a fox killed a baby.

There was a story where a couple claimed a fox had bitten their baby/babies (I think they had two). But commentators noted they had two poorly trained terriers in the house.