bloody foxes.........

[spudmasher]

They have dug a huge hole at the bottom of my garden and crapped all over the lawn. To add insult to injury, they have also done it on my doormat, just outside the back door.

I have just spent 15 minutes scraping stinky poo out of DD2's converse boots and I am not happy.

I am going to bed later on, knowing I will be wolen to a sound akin to that of a baby being peeled and sprinkled with salt.

How can I discourage them?

pesky foxes?? Anyone??

Pass the shot gun!!!

Know what you mean about the noise - it's
horrible. Luckily don't get bothered by foxes in any other way - it's the badgers. They dig huge holes in the lawn. Drives me mad.

Sorry, not being very helpful am I?

A friend of mine once described it as being like a grandmother being fisted. I have struggled to come up with a more descriptive one.....

rofl @ sprinked with salt

I occasionally find fox crap in the garden and it is just HORRIFIC. I have been known to throw out fox-shit shoes instead of cleaning them

I don't know WHAT you can do

Trouble is, the little blighters are almost domesticated now, because some people feed them. They just seem to roam about and not care anymore. I don't know the answer Im afraid, but when you've found one - let me know! We do own an air pistol tho....

LOL at the idea of foxes EVER caring!! Did they used to care before then?

Tssk. Foxes these days....

threw large handfuls of cotton wool doused with lavender oil up into the attic once when we had squirrels living up there. I still hate them..they used to start their work out programme at 4am daily. Thought even if that didn't work at least they'd smell nice..may not that much use for foxes, but there must be something that they hate!!

If these ones are the caring types....could you sit them down and explain that you're not keen on their behaviour!!!!!

not that it makes any difference .. of course it wasn't lavender it was peppermint....and the house smelt like mouthwash for days

I'd have come round with the hounds but I'm not allowed to anymore.

I've seen boxes of lion poo (yes, really - those junkmail gardening catalogues) which are sold as a cat deterrent. A sensible fox would bugger off if he thought a lion had moved in but as foxes are both arrogant and disgusting it would either eat it or fling it at your windows.

You may find them less active, both noise and crap, in a couple of months time.

These are SE london foxes so they might use the lion poo to grafitti their tag on my wall.

Tried the naughty step.

They did not respond.

Spuds.......SE LOndon foxes. How about bribery and corruption if the naughty step hasn't worked.
I'd go with the gold star daily if they cr*p next door instead ( or place of your choice!). If they get 14 gold stars, a box of Tesco value chicken wings. Fox alliance place oks this as a snack !!!

They crapped on my doorstep too and ran off with 1 of my favourite, soft beautiful leather sandals that I left on my back doorstep one evening. Came down just 1 lonely shoe. Bloody buggery foxes

Hugh FW says balls of human hair scattered about, the smell spooks them.
Don't know if it would work with foxes that don't care, though.

balls of human hair? does spuds have to go and scalp someone first? is there some associated voodoo spell...should she try mixing the hair with the lion poo??? (wink)

glad i only had squirrels that didn't have a shoe fetish!

i know exactly what you mean spud...forgot to close lounge curtains one night, and looked up to see a bloody dirty fox looking at me (thankfully, doors closed!)...and without fail, get up to find a great dirty turd by the back window!!!

oh yes, we've lost shoes here too!

I'm still so devestated about the loss of my favourite shoe.

just read something about keeping deer out of garden using those hanging up car fresheners which cannot imagine anyone liking too much........might work on foxes!!spud but not very glam if you're into garden design.

Norks - you bring the hounds, I'll bring the horses .....

Bloody foxes have had 2 of my hens in the last month.

I looked up the other week to see one running across the yard with my cockerel in it's mouth. Ran out shouting and it dropped the cockerel who was thankfully okay, albeit minus a lot of feathers. Tbh he does have a bit of a nervous twitch now though.

Also my two lurchers just love to roll in fox shit. Mingers.

DH has suggested an inner city hunt involving BMX bikes.

Just to ease my mind, I wanted to let you all know that I would NEVER do what that man did to the foxes on the Meet the foxes programme last night.
That was awful. Made me feel so sad.
Having said that, my pesky fox sat and measured my stride on Saturday night so that when I came out of the door the poo was perfectly positioned where my foot was to fall.
Then on sunday night it did a poo in the drain so that when I had a shower on Monday morning the whole place was filled with the smell of steaming hot fox poo.
Clever....

Foxes fucking stink!

I didn't see the fox programme. What did the man do? I hope it had nothing to do with fists or grandmothers

He got a man in to shoot them from the bedroom window.

That's outrageous