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?

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!

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

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

I think it's the hormones/pheromones.

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

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/

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!