Fox wandered into my living room last night

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Yelled at it so it retreated (rather slowly). Shut door between house and conservatory ... And 2 mins later saw had wandered back into conservatory, as casual as you like!

AIBU to call for best ways to deter foxes? Do not want him wandering on in!

Live in Richmond, London btw so this is a semi urban fox ....

Get DH or DP or a good friend to pee around the garden/ outside of conservatory.
Alternatively, make your garden fences high and secure with no gaps.

I give local foxes mange treatments.

Read this as minge treatment at first

I'm jealous of OPs tame fox, where can I get one of those?

As for the rest of the comments - losing our freedom? Shooting it in half? how fucking ridiculous some of you sound.

As a pp said, we invaded their territory. They're just making do with the shit situation we've put them in.

Foxes aren't an issue in the Dales. But I think that's down to the gamekeepers

We have had foxes try and get in our house. We live in the town but there are lots of foxes about.

Once I was in the kitchen with the window slightly ajar a fox jumped up onto the narrow window and tried to shove it's nose in the gap in the window. He seemed determined to get in even though I was standing there.

I think people who feed foxes are foolish and selfish. I know they are 'cute' but they are not pets.

We have set up action detected water jet that will squirt any passing fox r cat.

the best way to deter them is with male wee - from a dog or person or other animal. you can wee outside the French doors. round here they wee in a bucket soak rags in it and tie them on fences. hanging up the corpse of a rotting dead fox also does the trick so long as its male not female as a dead female will attract not deter.

I would shoot the little cunts. They're walking disease bags.

Akin to rats and pigeons, vermin!

I love foxes! Even my two dogs play with foxes who wander into the garden. I much prefer to see a fox in the garden than next doors bloody cat! Why would anyone want to hurt a fox?

What am I reading are some of you campaigning to bring back fox hunting. Why don't you get a pest controller out they would get rid of the problem thats what they are there for.

I adore foxes.
Beautiful creatures.

Man I hope no one catches you using a gun with intent especially in front of little kiddies. You'll have SS and the RSPCA knocking at your door. If I was you I wouldn't go around bragging about it.

Man I hope no one catches you using a gun with intent especially in front of little kiddies. You'll have SS and the RSPCA knocking at your door. If I was you I wouldn't go around bragging about it.

MN gets more bonkers by the day. With intent to what? Firearms certificates don't arrive in cereal packets.

FFS, you frothers all make yourselves sound so ignorant it's almost embarrassing. The RSCPA wouldn't give a shiny shit and as for SS... what's their involvement precisely?

Foxes shouldn't be coming into people's houses, they are wild animals, regardless of which of us has encroached on the other's living space.

As for the humane fox society caging them up, what do you think they do with them afterwards? IME they take them to the countryside where they starve to death because they were brought up eating the rubbish and scraps that idle, indulgent town folk think it's a good idea to leave hanging around, not catching prey or foraging.

oxy you missed the moron off your name.You would shoot them. Er ok.
IF you had a gun. Which thank god is highly unlikely. These threads really bring out the dregs don't they. Hope your poor children don't grow up with such hate.

Yep animal threads always bring out the strange Etta.

Because purpletango they're not nice or decent people.

They really do sparkling funny isn't it. We are the ones that want no harm to come to animals , there are people saying they'd kill them ,have shot them in half (big man) and other vile comments and yet WE are deemed the "frothers" and the extremists. Unbelievable really isn't it.

Yes, it's not the animal lovers that are the frothers, that's for sure.

The RSCPA wouldn't give a shiny shit and as for SS... what's their involvement precisely?

You want to test that theory you don't want to use someone who is experienced and qualified to handle it. You would rather shoot an animal in front of you're children. I think it would be a social workers best interest to challenge why you would use a gun in you're home in front of you're children. You can't scare a fox away. A fox lived in my neighbours back garden she didn't know until I told her when I spotted him. She called someone to deal with the problem don't take into you're own hands and trauma the children.

Evidently Etta. And they call foxes "animals"!

You don't have a screen door?

I had a fox in the living room too.

My (adult ) son had said to me earlier in the day......"was there a fox in your bedroom" I thought he'd had an odd dream and thought nothing of it until late afternoon sitting watching TV a fox walked in the room. I looked at him and said hello (like ya do)and he walked out but didn't leave and disappeared down my cellar steps (interior door). I followed him down but couldn't find the sod. I didn't sleep that night .....and he didn't come out. 3am listening to the insomniacs saviour night time talk radio had me on air when they asked if anyone had any problems they needed solving. My fox problem took up the whole hour LOL . One lovely caller hooked me up it the Fox Project a fox rescue charity that covers Surrey, Kent and SE London and they sent two ladies to me next morning to try to catch him. They couldn't find him either and told me he must have snuck out. I knew he hadn't so put down some food and he appeared to eat it so my ladies came back and eventually caught him (he was hiding under the stair tread). He was very unwell with mange and they weren't sure he'd survive but took him to the sanctuary and I followed his recovery on their FB page until they released him a few weeks later (in my back garden ...foxes are territory based and ideally can't be relocated). He was quite a character he'd wander down the road past people waiting at the bus stop in broad daylight. The looks on their faces were priceless.
OP definitely get in touch if he comes back and they will take him away and treat him. My fox never came into the house again so I guess he was so unwell he came I that time (and picked his house well as it turned out). The Fox Project has some gorgeous photos of some of their guests on their FB page.

trafargal you're an absolute angel! Thank you for saving him,so glad he came to you and not someone awful like some "people"'on this thread.
.The FP are fantastic,I love their Fb page, they work wonders.

I'm not soppy about animals by any means but I certainly wouldn't deliberately hurt or kill an animal which wasn't threatening my life. There's some really odd people out there it seems.