Fox repellent advice please?

[MaggieW]

A fox is pooing each night just outside our kitchen back door and it stinks. I clean it up each day but annoyingly can't find the one its done last night which is really pongy as I write this!

I've tried putting cayenne pepper down, which has worked with cats in the garden, but fox doesn't seem to mind it. Any ideas please?

[VestalVirgin]

Why must it be mens wee? Whats wrong with lady wee?

I suppose it is easier to make a man pee out in the garden, for, um, obvious privacy reasons.

As the fox does not see humans as rivals or potential mates, the sex shouldn't matter.

You could use a bottle to pee in and then put it on the garden on one site, and have a man pee on the other side, and look where the fox comes in. Scientific research!

[kazz2016]

I'm a gardener and am trying to help a client with this as there is a big hole that does not seem to be a den but a bolt hole which foxes make just to hide out in while trafficking through terrority. The main misunderstanding about foxes is that they will 'attack humans' but they won't. Newspaper reports are usually wrong and its usually about the fox being attracted to a sound or a smell! It may be that the previous owner of your home was single or elderly and didn't come and go too much! So the foxes were not too disturbed. Added human activity will probably move them on. I have heard all kinds of suggestions for useful deterrents - fox repellent sprays from garden centre or even Male human urine around the area ! Get your other half to pee out there ! It's about terrority so if they feel threatened they will leave. It's not worth killing them or relocating because another will take the place. They are shy and harmless and will avoid humans at any cost if You Avoid feeding them. Make lots of commotion as you come in and out because that will make their home feel less secure and likely move them on. It's all about terrority , and there's is getting smaller and smaller as more and more people fear them out of misunderstanding, however if they have cubs your best waiting it out till they are big enough to move on. See this website below for further information. Hope it helps

foxproject.org.uk/deterrence/

[57968sp]

Trying to bump this post in the hope of getting advice from someone who has succeeded in ridding their garden of foxes.
Help! Please!

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

I think it's the hormones/pheromones.

[catmadcaz]

Why must it be mens wee? Whats wrong with lady wee?

[JamNan]

Nothing works better than a blardey great big gun.
Shoot the buggers!

[superflybenita]

Sorry to bump an old thread but I thought the topic would still be relevant to many people, particularly after that baby was attacked by a fox recently. I have been looking for a solution to the problem of foxes coming into my garden and pooing on my children's slide (of all things!).

I found this site foxrepellentexpert.com and it has some great advice to deter foxes. It has loads of reviews on fox repellent products, including using a radio in the garden to scare foxes away. I bought a waterproof one and tuned it to Radio 4 like the site said. It's worked a treat as the foxes think there are humans nearby and won't come near my garden now! Hope someone else will find the site useful too!

[MaggieW]

Am gearing DH up to pee furiously around the garden tonight. Should be lovely in amongst the sizzle of neighbouring BBQs etc!

Jeyes fluid on the step worked for a bit but fox outfoxed me last night by avoiding the back step but pooing very neatly on the soil of a new plant in a pot I was given yesterday that was sitting on the step.

[badtasteflump]

Man wee does work - he needs to spray it around a fair bit though...

[cantspel]

Alas no toddlers here, both my sons are taller than me, eat more than me and think i am quite mad as i potter about the garden chatting to my plants

The one good thing about teens is they always want money so can be cheap labour to do fence painting and the like.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

This and the taking a chamber pot to festivals thread have been revelatory about the many uses to which a Lenor bottle can be put, too.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

A teenager? I'd assumed from the giving waffles to foxes thing that he was a toddler.

::yet to enter the wonderful world of teenagers::

[cantspel]

I know teens get up to all sorts but he hasn't sunk to pooing on the gravel quite yet.
But i do make my husband pee in an old lenor bottle which i use on my compost but both sons refuse to contribute to my eco friendly composting

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Weeing. Bloody autocorrect.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

I suppose a son pooing in the gravel is a natural progression from a dad dressed as an alpaca wearing on the flower beds.

[CointreauVersial]

Your son poos in the gravel???

[cantspel]

I blame my son as when he spots one in the garden he goes out and give them a waffle

As long as he doesn't poo in the gravel i will leave him be as we have no chance of getting rid of them as there are just too many as we live in a consevation area with loads of nice places for them to make their dens.

[Derklugehans]

Make like an alpaca. He thinks he owns the place.

[cantspel]

I have just got in from work and a fox is sitting as bold as brass on my drive way. He didn't even move when i drove past him to park. i have a gravel drive so quite noisey when you drive or walk across it and he still just sat there.

[Derklugehans]

I personally think the council should pay an army of men, dressed as alpacas, to wee round the borders of everyone's gardens.

Come to think of it, the army could do it. In the war against fox crime.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

That should have been weeing. Bloody phone.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Or one's DH could dress up as an alpaca, while simultaneously wearing around the borders of one's property.

[ComeIntoTheGardenMaud]

Perhaps one could make an alpaca out of expensive knitwear, as a sort o scare-fox.

[Derklugehans]

Could one dress one's dog up as a mini-alpaca? Or one's dh?