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Fox wandered into my living room last night

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yumyumlama · 30/08/2016 19:47

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 ....

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kirinm · 01/09/2016 07:26

I've been woken up every night by the bloody fox family screaming / yelling (or whatever it is they do). Driving me nuts!

Thatsmeinthecorner2016 · 01/09/2016 11:26

Yep, feeding wild animals is a recipe for disaster for both sides. I know of some lunatics who are feeding a female bear where we spent our holidays. I felt sorry for the poor bear. She'll only get shot one day though those who were feeding her should be shot for stupidity instead.

WiddlinDiddlin · 01/09/2016 13:20

Lend you my lurcher - he is LETHAL to anything vermin like (he's even caught BATS ffs though we strenously avoid this now we know he can jump high enough and accurately enough to snatch a low flyer out of the air!!!).

BarbarianMum · 01/09/2016 13:33

I feed the birds in our garden. They haven't got me yet Smile.

pontificationcentral · 01/09/2016 15:18

True dat. But there are still things you need to know - what time of year not to feed them certain things so they don't choke their babies to death, the fact that feeding them makes them less likely to be able to forage for their own food, and dependent on you or others, such that if you stop they might starve etc etc. The other reason is that bird feed quite often attracts other animals (in the uk just rats and foxes and whatnot, but here we have a string of coyotes that check under bird feeders, and a town bylaw that prevents us having bird food out at certain times of year so as not to draw large dangerous (and hungry) animals into town).
In the uk it's lovely to feed the birds, but even in the uk there are consequences for interfering with wildlife, however innocuous your sunflower seeds or peanuts seem. Grin

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