to beg you for your fox solutions

I hate to say this, not but you're not an animal lover if you had foxes killed.

I'm sure you could have contacted a wildlife centre and maybe had them moved on by someone. Yes there are centres that look after foxes. There must have been options you had not even thought of. Try harder.

A couple of years ago, we had a family of foxes under our garden office. We waited until the cubs were mobile then blocked off access. The foxes still occasionally come in to the garden but they don’t linger. Until the foxes, we’d had a family of hedgehogs which we’d built a whole run of boxes for, then the foxes got into it and ruined it.

The local people who feed foxes infuriate me. Foxes are wild animals and are perfectly capable of finding their own food, yet these fucking idiots think that they need to leave whole cooked chickens out otherwise the ‘poor foxes’ will starve.

Me and my dog are currently being stalked by a fox. He chases us down the road until we are home. Happened just now on our walk, third time this week. How do you stop this?!

Well obviously, if you see one, I agree it will be a fox. But everyone seems to just assume everything ‘bad’ that happens in a garden is due to foxes? I live rurally and badgers are more likely to damage my lawn.

I live by a forest (Zone 5). I have absolutely nothing useful to add. The foxes sunbathe on top of our summerhouse and are in the garden most days. I wasn't aware of deterents but doubt anything would ward our ones away.

We had a fox pissing on our front door- that was vile.

The last thing we tried as citrus scent. Lemon, orange, grapefruit peel left where they regularly pee /shit. It worked for 'our' fox.

Good luck

Most of the deterrent methods work where foxes have a lot of freedom to choose where they go.

However cramped into tiny territories in urban areas, they do not have much choice, they do have to leave their dens and find food, and that is a stronger driver for crossing into your garden than almost any deterrent you can think of.

My solution in the past has been (inadvertently not pre-meditated!) having lurchers who will kill them and see off any fast enough not to meet their maker.

If they are under pressure from high population numbers, not much shy of murdering them some way will work, and any you do manage to off will be replaced by others. They are in an urban setting, little more than a larger, slower reproducing rat.

What an awful thread, having someone out to kill them, bring back hunting, terrible attitudes.
Humans have encroached on their habitat and we now see them as a nuisance.

Live in the country and the fuckers fox comes in broad daylight after my chickens. Nothing works except bang bang you're dead

Because they will stare you dead in the eye. They don't give a shit. Well, they do, and they leave it all over the garden, and the smell is unmistakeable, definitely not a mole.

I sprinkled lemon essential oil (a few pounds from any health food shop) down on the garden path and this seemed to keep them away. Apparently they don't like the smell of lemon/citrus. They were pooing by the door and this hasn't happened since I did this.

Not sure the neighbours would take kindly to being shot with a water pistol
Carbolic soap. Grate it down and then spread the grated soap around the perimeter fence. Spread it thinly. Don't put it around the roots of tender plants as they won't appreciate it!

Human hair tied in little bags (old tights?) I'm sure Hugh FW did this to protect his chickens from foxes.

Befriend a hairdresser and get some hair!

We've had baby foxes & they've never damaged anything so I think we must be lucky! The ?mum brings them at about 8pm for a play & DD loves watching them from the window. They have brought dog toys etc into the garden & ran around chasing eachother but never damaged anything or left any mess. I wonder if they don't mess where they sleep/play maybe? Genuinely never had any issues with them they just have a run around & keep to themselves. And they are very cute when they're tiny!

I had this problem too.

Tried lion poo, male urine and they didn’t work.

Dug up the blackberry brambles which helped as I suspect that they were a good source but there was a bloody neighbour was left food out so the problem was permanent 🤬

And you can tell it's foxes from the smell.

One fox is nothing compared to a litter of baby ones. The damage cubs can do is just unbelievable.

How does everyone know it is foxes? Not saying it never is but other animals can cause damage to lawns and football nets - badgers and moles like the former and magpies like the latter.

And one has also caught a rat and left it in my garden, luckily I got to that before ddog.

I hate them due to their shit which ddog invariably eats at least once a week 🤮

I hate to say this OP but the only thing that worked for us (also Zone 3) was getting an exterminator in to shoot the foxes. We were utterly overrun, there were 2 separate dens in some rough land by the end of our garden, and some of the bloody neighbours were feeding them.
Had the fox guy out, he trapped & killed 3 of them, humanely with a shotgun.
Only thing that worked.
I am an animal lover but it was a horrendous health hazard. We tried all other options but the foxes were just laughing at us