AIBU to want a fox free garden?

[tiddlerslate]

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.

I found that stuff called CAT GO worked when put around the boundary and on the shed roof. - Needs replacing every so often and smell horrible to humans too - not sure if you can put it down if you have a dog

YANBU

Foxes in our area are a real pest, shitting and pissing in the gardens over the outdoor toys and furniture, spreading rubbish up and down the street of the daft beggars neighbours who put out bin liners instead of proper bins.

I was fairly accepting of them until they took up daily residence in my open porch area and chewed through parts of the stroller and handle bars of DS's bike, plus weeing/spraying on the front door.

I found Jeyes fluid in a powder form (bin sanitiser?) was very effective sprinkled around the perimeter of the area you want to protect.

Mummsieluv, That's exactly the problem we have round here - most of us are vaguely intelligent enough to know when bin day is, and put our rubbish (especially food waste) out that morning.

Some of my neighbours, however, think that it's fine to leave out chicken carcasses and half eaten pizzas, shoved in a carrier bag, in their front gardens for days on end.

Lorks, how embarrassing, I left my mummsie name on from an earlier thread

Why is that embarrassing?

Oh and don't even get me started about the mad old bat down the road who puts out a banquet for the frigging pigeons every day. I'm sure the rats and foxes and gulls appreciate this too, immensely.

Thanks for all the advice. DH has been weeing round the garden every night this week. He's gone for the wee in a jug, pour into a washing up liquid bottle then squirt technique as he is terrified of our nosey neighbours spotting him.

We've also been given an ultrasonic scarer by one of DH's colleagues so we are giving that a go.

I'll have a look at the cat mesh too - thanks AlfalfaMum.

There are paw prints on our slide and trampoline today

Would a dead fox nailed to the fence work as a sort of deterrent do you think?

Seriously, I have just been to a vintage clothes fair with DD and one of the stallholders had a stole made out of a whole fox. It was in pretty much perfect condition and he only wanted £15 for it. I was sorely tempted (not to wear obviously but just as a novelty item to keep about the house) but DD was horrified and talked me out of it; she thought her vegetarian friends would be shocked when they came round.

Anyway, just thought something like that might work, like a scarecrow effect.

You should post on the chicken keepers website. they have some good anti fox tips. I live in the countryside. they are vermin. they kill my chickens for fun not for food and they are the top of the food chain. if they don't bother me i don't bother them but if they kill my chickens then they are controlled/killed. people living in towns have very different views probably because they have never had to pick up 64 dead hens in one day or explain why 3 rabbits were ripped from their cages, killed and left to rot. Urban foxes need controlling. even if you don't put out food for the birds, or uncovered bins your neighbours will. The fluffy bunny brigade would soon have the same view if they went out tomorrow and found flopsy dead outside the cage or worse still their kids did.