I hate foxes

Fox shit stinks to high heaven. I learnt this the hard way when I stepped in it once 🤢. They also are inclined to shit right in the middle of walkways etc as it is how they clearly mark their turf.

Someone told me that the screaming noise is them mating. Apparently, it's quite painful for the vixen, so it's quite disturbing to hear (assuming that's true and not something my friend told me to freak me out).

There are so many of them around now and they definitely aren't scared of humans at all.

I'm sure they are intelligent animals etc, but I'm not a massive fan. Not a lot we can do about them though. If they're destroying your stuff though, you can get those noise emitter things and stuff you can put on your garden to discourage them.

They are total vandals aren't they? They destroy things. I have to think every night if I have left anything in the garden that I don't want destroyed. They also dig up my planters. It has got so much worse jn the last year or 2. Think the population has just exploded around here. If we take dog out in the evening we'll see at least 2 when just walking around the block, and the dog goes nuts which isn't the foxes fault but it's a total pain!

I love foxes. Yes they can be a pain with the noise they make and the pooing in the garden but they are living creatures and humans have destroyed a lot of the areas where they live so who can blame them trying to find food.

It's totally untrue that a fox killed a baby. I know someone who works with fox rescue and also helps people who have a problem with them in their garden etc. He said it's just rubbish that a fox did that. The parents had a dog but they lied and said they didn't.

The screeching is usually territorial or in mating season in winter. I think I would double up on existing fox proof measures and not leave things out over night. I'm trying to think of a scenario where a fox can sneak into the house without me noticing and I'm struggling with that particular one at the moment. I think I'd notice but that's probably because I have a dog and he'd want to tear it apart. Speak to some pest controllers not necessarily to get them to come in but to ask them what sort of deterrents they can suggest.

They have sort of regular runs, I got DH to pee round the edge of the garden a few times a few years ago and they stopped coming in. There is much debate about if it works but they stopped coming in so that’s a win for me. I grew up rurally. Never approved of all the twats that used to go fox hunting because that was all about fun but never cared if local farmers killed them.

Not sure that's true @Mollysocks . Lots of rural and semi rural areas have artificially high fox numbers because stupid cunts keep releasing loads of pheasants and game birds into it. They do well in urban areas because there is food for them there. I love them, far rather have foxes in my garden than a dozen of the local cats.

The foxes here dig under the fences.

😂 The entitlement/ignorance/obliviousness in these posts.

‘Screeching’ is natural to them, they don’t know that’s your driveway, ground is ground to them, and they’re looking in the bins because they’re hungry and looking for food.

They don’t understand property or mess or tresspassing ffs 😂 They're animals.

They are pests because they’re hungry and we’ve ruined their habitat so they need to look elsewhere for food.

I also hate them. They screech all night and wake us up. Shit on our driveways and pavements. Rip open the garbage. They are absolute vermin.

Cat proof your garden. That will keep your cat in and foxes out.

Fox wee tends to be the stinky part

the poo smells worse.

One of them backed up to my front door and shat on it. That was dedication.

Similar issues here. They’re a total fecking nuisance. Can’t ever leave anything in the garden, like a pair of shoes or a dog toy as they will either shit on it or steal it. And the noise they make at night, especially during the mating season is horrendous. Our dog gets very wound up by them and they don’t appear to be particularly scared of him so he’s not a deterrent.

YANBU, yours sound awful.

I love ours though and don't have the same problems - no diarrhoea, they don't raid the food waste bin, rarely hear them at night. They do occasionally poo or wee on toys left in the garden though, so we try not to do that!

I love foxes. One of my favourite animals

I also don’t believe the fox killed the baby

We thought the dog thing would work but it doesn’t make any difference. They are sneaky little bastards who sneak across the lawn and all it does is encourage my dog to woof at them.

Then at night they come back and poo as close to the house as they can.

My husband left some washing out and a pair of pants fell off on to the floor. They pooed in the pants. They have pooed on our garden table, directly on top of a football, inside an empty flower pot. They’ve chewed up garden toys and once I caught one trying to steal a shoe when the back door was open. We have to now religiously put away everything from the garden and can’t have laundry out.

We also have to put it all away because the dog left a squeaky toy outside and we all got woken up to the haunting squeaking sound about 3am one summer morning when we’d left our windows open.

I hate them. I wish they’d stop breeding.

I feel for the issues you are having , but I adore the foxes we have around here . Luckily not huge in numbers and I agree they can leave a rather whiffy smell in their wake . I don’t think there’s a way to get rid of a wild roaming animal in urban areas , different in rural but I’d rather not go there .

Ours are very much nocturnal in terms of visits , apart from the lovely stage when the youngsters haven’t developed a fear of humans or worked out they aren’t really supposed to sit in the middle of the garden in the day . Our cat isn’t allowed out at night , so he doesn’t have any run ins with them . Recycling is kept in one of the sheds , brick built so no fox entries , and to be honest I leave water out for them as I hate the idea of any animal struggling to survive .

You can get milk crates for your milk and add a swing latch to them , this one just an example Milk crate

We also keep a dog pooper scooper to remove any poop , but to be honest it should be solid , so if runny would probably indicate the fox is unwell.

Fox wee tends to be the stinky part unfortunately ,but it tends to disperse in a few hours .

The outdoors has wildlife in it, and long may that continue. Massively, massively depleted from what it should be of course, but hopefully we can learn to tolerate those few species that are able to live close to us.

They are beautiful and clever, I adore them.....but I live in the countryside. I can imagine they are not the neighbours you want in an urban setting. I hate pet cats in the same way, shitting all over my garden, digging up my veg patch, killing the wildlife I want to encourage. No much either of us can do I suspect.

I wonder why they behave differently in different areas. I like them but i can see i probably wouldn't feel the same if i lived in your area. I wonder if we have enough wildlife to keep them from invading bins and milk bottles for food.

I hate them with the fire of 1000 suns.
animal lovers look away now*
The only way to get rid of them is either 1. Get a dog or 2. Get the pest control people out. And by pest control I mean a man with a shotgun who will kill as many of the fuckers as possible.

I am also a hater, never felt more keenly than when I was walking round my field trying to find the bodies of my 7 chickens 😭