To think a human is fucking with me

[LaurieFairyCake]

I have a pot of agapanthus buried into the back garden. Twice now I've gone out to find the agapanthus upended and an empty tin of dog food buried there.

The first time I thought foxes, the second time I'm not so sure. Last week I took the tin out and put it next to my chicken run and reported the agapanthus.

I've just been out the front to find the tin has been replanted in my new strawberry bed and 2 strawberry plants have been upended. Only when I went to replant them did I notice the entirely buried dog food tin.

Yes, it's the tin from the back garden (70 feet away)

There is no way an animal has done this right?

A large house that backs onto us may be some sort of half way house as I've been yelled at by young men a few times when in the garden.

I'd really like another explanation before I talk to the rozzers and say 'there's a dog food tin wandering round my garden appearing in unlikely places'

You are missing a trick here - make your DH sit up all night, if it's an intruder then you will be too busy being a damsel in distress to be able to deal with it. Don't forget to wear a floaty nightie .

Where my DP's parents live (suburbia) a couple of houses found whole eggs buried in their borders. Lion stamped and everything. It was a bit of a mystery but it turns out that foxes do bury food to come back for later, and they'd been nicking eggs from people's milkman delivery and hoarding them all over the street (one of her neighbours saw a fox bury the egg). Since I found that out we had a planting tub in the back garden and 2 shrubs were dug out of it, and dumped on the patio. When I went to replant them I found birds eggs buried in the tub. I think they pull up the plants because the void the roots leave is probably easier than digging out a hoarding place (pure speculation now, I'm not a fox).

Anyway. Might be that it IS foxes hoarding dog food cans nicked from bins. But I'd put a webcam on it, as there are plenty of weirdos out there too...

place marking. I need closure on this.

(pure speculation now, I'm not a fox)

Are you sure you seem to know an awful lot about them!

How odd, especially the front garden. Wouldn't any of your neighbours have seen anything?

I'm new here thornrose is the done thing to NC after being outed as a fox?

Seriously though, my MIL and her neighbours thought that vandals were burying eggs in their gardens. It was weird and I was interested.

Going back to the OP - who did you report the Agapanthus to? This is a key detail.

Ron, I assumed that was a typo and the OP meant repotted?

Any activity overnight, OP?

I think foxes too.

They have dug up a beloved pet rabbit and several plants in our garden. They also seem to get fixated on things, so that if I replant a certain plant that they have conceived a vendetta against, they will follow it around, digging it up again, however safe I think the new location is.

They are also freakishly strong, and have been known to pull the lid from the bin, pull a bin bag out, pull the bag to the bottom of the garden, before festooning ours and neighbours' gardens with the rubbish.

Bastards.

I've not had to report my agapanthus. Mind you, it hasn't flowered in 4 years, so perhaps I should.

Any news???

The tin is still in the recycling.

I am waiting for it to move

I have viewed my strawberries and agapanthus today - they report no sexual interference overnight

Wait they were interfered with sexually?! This is a new twist. If it is foxes and they're having to resort to interfering with your plants for their kicks I'd be inclined to leave them to it. Poor things.