Foxes

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Any ideas for fox deterrents ? We currently have a plot of ground gone wild at the end of our enclosed garden into which neighbours have seen foxes going. Today we've found fox poo in the garden. As we aren't likely to clear that area until winter at earliest what can we do in the meantime to deter them from coming into our garden. Also how can we humanely evict them when we do clear it.

They aren't a problem to you unless you have chickens around surely? I'd set up a night watch with the kids, mine have never seen a live fox so would be very excited by it.

i have a fox that comes through my garden every night i wouldnt deture it for the world so many people/kids these days only see things like this in a book you as i are so lucky to have them even though the poo is abit of a pain

Sorry this has started me giggling again over the lady on here who made sandwiches for a fox!

I wouldnt worry about them too much - we have rats and they upset me far more (so far DH is too scared to deal with them so im going to pay his friend!)

Having said that fox poo smells even worse than cat poo so I guess you dont want the kids bringing it in on their shoes.

They're getting bolder - poo less than 6 feet from the house on our patio. atm it's not really a problem but what should we do when we landscape the wild bit though ?

Would that lion poo stuff work on foxes? Probably not, thinking about it. I put lion pellets down against next door's cat, but Fantastic Mr Fox is still usually either sitting on the roof of the shed or on the table most mornings, cheeky beggar.
What about one of those sonic thingies that emits a high pitched sound. Or an actual lion?!

Must admit we have a fox locally and I am thrilled if we see it! Can't really imagine it being a problem.

No idea for deterrents,but I wouldn't encourage them into my garden.A couple I work for had a huge amount of damage to their lawn,caused by foxes.

Craneflies [dadylonglegs] lay their eggs in the soil,during warm wet spring weather,the larvae hatch out [leatherjackets].The foxes can smell them under the lawn & rip up the grass to get at them.The damage I saw was unbelivable,just like someone had gone over the entire lawn with a sharp instrument & tore it up.

omg we've just seen one in the garden in broad daylight. Doesn't look very old either.