What Does The Fox Say? "Hey Professor Dent, don't kill me! Please!"

[ProfessorDent]

Okay, foxes have lived in the bottom of my parent's garden for two decades now, it's not a problem. They come and go, maybe a year or two we didn't see them. (The foxes, not my parents).

Now Mummy fox has had seven - yep, seven - cubs. Cute they are, for sure, scampering around in the sun, being suckled by the oak tree.

Shall I kill them?

Okay, okay, I know. But these seven cubs are gonna grow up, and they won't be able to leave home due to inflated den prices which are affecting the market... I am all for letting them live a nice year or two but then what?

I saw a link about this someone posted on another foxy thread.

www.rspca.org.uk/allaboutanimals/wildlife/laws

But it is not v specific. I don't want to poison them. I want the cubs to grow up a bit, live a bit. How long to foxes live for anyway? It is unclear. Of course, if all the cubs are male I wouldn't need to worry. I don't want to seem all Nigel Farrage about this. And it's a big garden, but even so.

I imagine that if the area is that crowded then the stronger foxes will out-compete the weaker ones for food and nature will take its course.... but I live in the country so I don't know much about urban foxes, other than that they are cheeky buggers. Is there anyone that can relocate them? Would that even work?

Wild foxes only tend to have a lifespan of a couple of years. I'm sure that they'll all find their own territory and move on when they're old enough anyway.

Leave them be. They are not doing you any harm.
Their average lifespan is 18 months so they wont live long anyway.

Not true, Pannacotta, not true.

Looked out in the garden last week, saw an adult fox holding something in his mouth, like they were fox cubs. But couldn't be, they are much older now. Realised he had in his mouth my leather gardeing rigger gloves. Gave a shout - usually this scares them off... Little bastard just sized me up, then when I made a move after him, scarpered with both gloves in his mouth, through the bushes and over the stream.

Bloody fox killed everyone of my chickens during the day....bit the heads off for the children to find. Not a single one survived .....

Inform the head of the local hunt in the pub over a pint.