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AIBU?

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AIBU to want a fox free garden?

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tiddlerslate · 31/08/2011 22:42

Arrived back from a lovely week at my mum's to find the foxes have destroyed our garden yet again. They have crapped everywhere including on the DD's new trampoline and have chewed the protective covering off the bars.

Everytime I plant something they dig it up including all the veggies I've tried to grow with the DD's.

This is probably in the wrong place but any advice would be really welcome. I've got one of those ultrasonic scarer things but it doesn't seem to make any difference to the little buggers.

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SouthernFriedTofu · 31/08/2011 22:45

Why do you deserve the garden more the foxes? It's their home isn't it?

And YABUU you are being unreasonable and unrealistic

Vallhala · 31/08/2011 22:53

My thoughts are much the same as Southern's but I can see the problems you're faced with. website should give you both advice and an insight into man's affect upon fox welfare.

LoopyLoopsPussInBoots · 31/08/2011 22:53

What Southern said.

worraliberty · 31/08/2011 22:53

I put some of the kid's old trainers out in the garden for the young foxes to chew on.

Only because I made the mistake of leaving my back door open one night and a little fox came in and ran off with one of my son's brand new trainers!

bibbitybobbityhat · 31/08/2011 22:54

Yanbu. They are such pests.

Dawnybabe · 31/08/2011 22:57

If you are being plagued with vermin you really need to speak to a professional pest controller who can advise you as to what to do. You don't want foxes in your garden to that extent if you've got children running around.

Just please don't catch them and release them into the countryside. We've got enough of the bloody things! The towny foxes don't know how to hunt, get killed by the resident foxes or just sit there watching the farmer take aim wondering what he's doing.

acsec · 31/08/2011 22:59

Get your DH to wee around the fence - the smell will keep the foxes out, but he has to do it often. Or get some lion poo from a garden centre.

faverolles · 31/08/2011 22:59

Sounds vile, but wee in a jug and pour it around your garden perimeter, this acts as a deterrent.

troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 23:00

YANBU - foxes are rural creatures, lured into towns with the prospect of easy food.

Can't be doing with the fluffy-wuffy brigade - they are vermin and should be dealt with in the same way you would deal with rats.

Vallhala · 31/08/2011 23:05

I want to live in worras house!

trois, we don't all "deal with" what you call vermin in the manner that your post suggests.

troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 23:06

My post didnt suggest anything. Dont project onto me.

AgentZigzag · 31/08/2011 23:06

Faverolles, I love it that your advice to decant ones wee into a jug is so much less common than acsecs, who'd have her DH going round pissing in the garden

Pagwatch · 31/08/2011 23:08

Yanbu to find them irritating. They shit everywhere and they fight endlessly waking the dc up at night. And they torment my lovely dog.

I might try the piss thing.

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tiddlerslate · 31/08/2011 23:10

Thanks for the ideas. Will get DH to try the weeing one. We live in a mid terrace and our garden is tiny. There's a huge park nearby so wonder if they come in from there.

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NasalCoffeeEnema · 31/08/2011 23:10

Male pee though

Pagwatch · 31/08/2011 23:12

We have a huge, huge garden. How do I break this to dh?

PizzaEmpress · 31/08/2011 23:12

troisgarcons, it's illegal to poison a fox, if that's what you're implying. Illegal and horrendous.

OP, have a look at the RSPCA site here for some decent advice.

AgentZigzag · 31/08/2011 23:13

Tell him he's got to drink lots of beer pag? (if not, it's herbal tea all the way)

troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 23:14

It has to be male urine - its the testosterone.

Lion/tiger poop pellets apparently work too. YOu can get them on line.

This wont go down well, but nailing carpet gripper rod to your fence will deter them. Mind you, you'll be sued by an errant burglar.

Main thing - dont put scraps out for birds - it just attracts foxes, mice, rats etc.

People also forget foxes carry toxocariasis in their faeces which can cause blindness.

troisgarcons · 31/08/2011 23:16

PizzaEmpress :troisgarcons, it's illegal to poison a fox, if that's what you're implying. Illegal and horrendous.

I never implied anything of the sort. DO NOT put words in my mouth.

LineRunner · 31/08/2011 23:17

OP, Are you urban or rural?

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tiddlerslate · 31/08/2011 23:19

DH has agreed to wee! He's strutting a bit saying stuff like "there's a big dog in town". He's had a few beers...

If my neighbour sees we'll never here the end of it. He's always up a ladder offering us advice over the fence.

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tiddlerslate · 31/08/2011 23:22

Linerunner - we are urban, north london

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clam · 31/08/2011 23:22

Pag, you need help. Hold a party for your DS's mates. Supply much drink. Tell 'em the loos are out of action.
Sorted.

Vallhala · 31/08/2011 23:23

People forget too that toxo is a bug which they can get into their systems from other sources, including the handling of pets and through gardening and against which as a result AFAIK the healthy normally build up an immunity and thus toxo/serious complications from the same is a rareity.

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