to beg you for your fox solutions

I got one called The Big Cheese Jet Spray. It's been very effective!

Not in London, but we feed them and although they play, they don’t seem to use our land near the house as a toilet. So try feeding them. 😅

We have foxes who come to our garden every night & lounge around on the grass. They don't leave any mess but do bring random items such as toys, shoes & plastic bottles which I need to tidy away. I don't mind them as they do help control the rodent population so I'd rather they stay nearby! Appreciate this doesn't help you & especially if neighbours feed them. But they do play a vital role in controlling mice and rats which I think people forget!

Nothing apart from the passing of time worked for us I'm afraid. Tried so many things. A few years of them fighting for territory in our back garden. Destroying fences, kids play equipment, multiple piles of increasingly liquid poo. I had to hose (and sometimes bleach) patio areas before the kids could go out. Scoop stuff off the grass. But then it just sort of stopped. Maybe one died. We still have a fox that comes regularly that occasionally poos but nothing like we've dealt with in the past. I hate urban foxes with a vengeance. Fearless, mangy, everywhere. Cost us a lot of money replacing fence panels multiple times. (And before anyone says 'probably badgers' it was definitely the foxes).

No because it's an incredibly stressful death and is primarily about humans taking pleasure in the killing. Also, not many hunts used to go through Zone 3.

It's not, and why do you think they're coming from the countryside into urban areas? The schools? Overpopulation in the countryside.

It’s true - they don’t like strong smells. We had one very persistent fox at a previous house. Nothing worked until eventually we doused the area in loads of vinegar and he never came back!

A pair of lakeland terriers and a dog flap, so the dogs can get in the garden whenever the foxes are present.

I never had a fox in my garden until my last lakie died, within 6 weeks of losing her, the foxes were in my garden.

I feel slightly torn because they're such beautiful creatures and when I see one out of the street I do gasp at the fairy tale magic of it, a bit.

Visit a hen house after they have killed all the coop just for sport, the magic would soon vanish.

I've also got a dog that wants to end the urban foxes, have resorted to curtains over french doors, plus v large sheets of card over curtains held in place with dining chairs so dog can't get nose between curtains, plus loud white noise so dog can't hear foxes. A pre bed rigmarole but it's better than dog losing it at 4am because can hear foxes doing the tango on the patio.

Outside have put a motion activated hose sprayer trigger thing, which also seems to be working, much less shit and general fuckery out there recently.

They are a beautiful pain in the arse.

Get a male to urunate in a bottle. Sprinkle it around the area required
Kept the foxes out of my garden

This is the one I'll try, I think. Which one did you buy?

Motion-activated water jet! It worked on our persistent fox.

Uuugh we had them when we lived in SE London. One of them was so bold that it came in my flat when the door was open and stole shoes! We weren’t the only ones, we later found a cache of stranger’s shoes at the back of the garden. We lived near somewhere that didn’t dispose properly of food waste and lots of woods. Funny but smelly.

we got rid of them a few years back by demolishing the shed they were living under and concreting their home 😬

But the bastards are now back… we tried everything listed here but none of it has worked.

a neighbour a few doors down feeds them 😵‍💫 which I don’t think helps

Human male urine in a jog around the perimeter and they won't come back.

Repeal the Hunting Ban!

We have urban foxes too, they’re around all day and all night. They’ve bitten through countless nets on Ds’s football goals, they cost loads to replace each time. We’ve tried the lion poo linked to previously and bloke wee and it’s made no difference. We’ve recently removed our old shed, which they enjoyed spending time behind, and that’s made no difference. I’m following for more tips.

https://www.easylife.co.uk/product/silent-roar/2496

Completely understand!!

I have to inspect the garden for worm ridden fox poos before letting DD out to play.
They are rife around here and I'm sure it the lady opposite me that's feeding them. I saw a fox carrying a tub of dog food up my driveway the other day, I'm always find them in my flower bed so someone is feeding them.

I read an article that said they don't like strong smells and suggested teabags soaked in deep heat. So we are going to try that next. Just waiting on dh to finish fixing the back fence before we try it.

When I lived in London, I befriended the toughest, most psychotic, cat in the neighbourhood. Once she saw out garden as her own, she saw off all other cats and the foxes that used to come and sleep/shit there. I never had to pick up cat or fox poo again.

Not sure how your own (apparently milder mannered) cat would feel about that though...