Dead fox in our garden - what to do with it?

[thetinsoldier]

We can pick it up and put it in a box (maybe) but where to put it??

Pop it on your local Facebook community group.

Seriously.

We have a local taxidermist who picks up anything dead! It's a great way of dealing with stuff. I have been known to stick dead birds in the bin. Not a fox though, bit big.

I would just bury it. Wouldn’t think twice.

I rang the council about one in our garden and was told to put it in my food waste. Not sure
the call handler knew how big a fox is! I was told the council would only collect it if it was on the road. So I put it on the road outside
my house, rang back and they collected
it.

I would probably just put it in a bin bag and put it in the bin, though TBF in this weather that would probably be dependent on whether the bin would be emptied soon.

bag up. Drop into a bin on the high street. They’re emptied regularly

😂

Take it to your nearest vets they’ll send it for cremation

Why should the other vet's clients pay for that though?

Bin is the usual answer. There was a thread on this a while ago on another forum, consensus was bin, advised by council. I like the public bin idea, ours are emptied once a fortnight. Never had more than large goldfish/very big rat, goes in the garden waste,

Pop it in the freezer then head in for some crimble crumble 🤣

look up on council website
10ish years ago in the london borough we lived advice was to put it in the garden waste bin.

We had one that the council wouldn't collect, it was during the pandemic. They advised us to bury it. We did this, but then spent ages frequently reburying it as other foxes kept digging. It was a little grim. In the end we laid a few paving slabs over the area.

They’re fairly big. How would you stuff it into a street bin?

We found two dead near a school near us, but even then no one seemed to care. I spent all morning calling various department and agencies and no one cared at all. Hope you find a way of getting shot of it.

Check with your council. Ours collects (or used to, even on a Sunday) dead foxes, but wouldn't carry it through the house. Fortunately our garden can be accessed through an alley.

Our council also charge to collect so DH threw it over the fence into the park and then reported it and someone came to collect it for free

This is what the council told my friend to do when she found a dead fox in her garden. She used a snow shovel to get it into the bin bag 😬

The garden waste bin?? Along with grass cuttings and plants? What on earth?

I think they are thinking of a hamster 😂

Some truly bizarre ideas here. Incinerate a fox? In this heat?!

We scooped it into a box and took it to our local woods.

How big are your high street bins 😱

Poor wee fox - but at least he got a nice send off 😊

Did you consider taxidermy though...?!

We had this - I assumed the council would take it, but they told us to put it in the normal waste bin in a taped up black bin bag. Felt bit weird doing it but I wasn’t going to leave it out.

Parts of it are past it… 🤢🤢🤢 So many flies…

See, we have pet chickens and when the ground has been hard my husband has advocated putting them in the bin. A full grown rooster is massive and could take on a fox. I mean people eat meat and put chicken carcasses in the bin every day up and down the country, and if their chicken (or indeed bigger thing like a turkey) went off before they could cook it they’d be binning it not calling the council for a special collection. The food bin is tiny or at least it is round here.