A fox in my garden

[Nikki037297]

Last night after spending most of my day gardening as we have been having some good weather at last I decided I’d sit out the front garden while it got dark as it was still warm. I sat there with my partner for a few hours just chatting, it was super peaceful. We live in a quiet cul de sac on the out skirts of the city but more closer to the country side. We decided we would go in around 9:45pm. We went in and as I was closing my bedroom curtains I seen a fox in my garden sniffing around and then it left. I checked my cctv and it was indeed a fox. Iv never seen a fox around here before but it made me a little worried. If we were to still be sat outside would this fox have made any attempt to come and hurt us? Or are foxes more scared of us?

Here’s one in my garden, I love them

@AKASammyScrounge

My father felt sorry for an old greying fox with a limp and fed him scraps every day One summer the fox came on to the lawn at the back of the house and lay down in the sun. Minutes later a female with two cubs joined him. The female sat to the side but the cubs played together in the sunshine, rolling about and running and jumping. They were beautiful to see . When my Dad was in hospital, the fox never once showed up. Dad fretted about him but we reckoned something had happened to him. Finally, Dad came home to die. He had a bed in front of the big picture window where he could see his garden. And the fox reappeared. He sat in the middle of the lawn, staring at the window. Dad was sinking fast. When he died the fox got up and walked away.and never came back.lt was just a little bit creepy.

💐*@AKASammyScrounge* sorry for your loss. Sounds like your dad and the Fox had a real connection.

OP we have foxes living just over the road from us, down by a railway embankment I’m sure they must visit the gardens, they won’t attack you, they are wary and watchful. They waited until you both went inside , then came to investigate.

We used to have foxes visit our urban garden and they were a menace upending the bins (pre wheely bins). They were lovely to watch though especially when they brought their very young cubs to play in the sun. We had a big chunky kitten at the time and I have a photo of the cubs and the kitten playing at the end of the garden.

Where we live now the rural foxes are much more shy. Sadly they are a real problem for neighbours who keep chickens though.

@AKASammyScrounge what a beautiful, touching story. I am sorry for your loss and I think the grey fox paid his respects to your father in the best way he could. 💐

@Thighdentitycrisis oh isn’t she pretty, framed with little pink flowers.

@A580Hojas

I see foxes every day without fail where I live in London. I do not find them charming or appealing in any way.

Ditto. For two years I had litters of fox cubs in my garden. Cute for about a week then they turn into ASBO thugs. The destruction and mess is unbelievable, my garden has high fences so I was stuck with them 24/7 until they were old enough to climb and move. Any fox lurking around my garden, particularly at this time of year when they are looking for dens for their cubs gets seen off the premises. Vigilance, chilli pepper, blocking off access, boiled up garlic, electronic deterrents……….

And the other thing I couldn’t do was leave any door or ground floor window open and unattended, great fun in the summer!

We have lots of foxes, urban area. Very annoying. They destroy everything left out in the garden (chew through football nets, gardening gloves, garden furniture, and shoes left out even if only for an hour). Despite trying to get the children to put away their things we have to replace a lot all the time because a fox runs off with it / chews it to pieces!

@Thighdentitycrisis

Here’s one in my garden, I love them

Beautiful.

We were confident we had no foxes in the garden. Then we put out a trail camera and discovered we had two. And 9 cats.

Our foxes take exception to anything we do to improve the garden and then crap on it. Eg expensive new patio - they crapped on it, having never done anything on the terrible old one. Expensive new fence - foxes crapping on the patio. Some other bit of work - fox crap on the doormat. I think they think we're gentrifying the neighbourhood (as if) and are making some kind of protest.

Other than having to clear up fox shit, you won't have any problems with them.

We have a family of foxes visiting on a regular basis, but never when we are outside. Watching them play in the snow was amazing.

We've seen some out and about during the day, they are getting bolder in that respect. Usually I see them outside the front trotting about in the front gardens. I was upset one morning as I saw that someone, most likely a fox, had sat on my Kniphofia and squashed it flat. They don't usually do much damage that I've noticed. They have different voices, they don't all sound the same.

I have seen this fella/missus around quite a bit, jumping across the shed roofs. I climbed over the fence to NDN's garden and a fox came hurriedly out from behind her shed and scrambled away, very panicky. I looked behind the shed and noticed the hole in the side was very much bigger than when I last checked, so assume they've got a den in there. We'll wait and let them raise their family before tackling the shed, NDN wants to get rid of it. It was very ramshackle even before foxes moved in!

Wow thanks everyone that’s some amazing stories @AKASammyScrounge that’s a lovely story that the fox came to see your dad before he left this world and it knew when he had departed

I do love animals. We get a lot of wood pigeons and hedgehogs around here we set up a hedgehog house for the winter and it was occupied which was lovely. We get squirrels. We have bluetits nesting in our roof again as we do yearly, I was just surprised to see a fox but if it wouldn’t hurt us that’s great news. My front garden is open to the street with a small hedge across the front but not the drive way. So if it was to come in and see us it’s an easy way back out. I don’t have a baby I do have young children and I’m pregnant but would never leave a baby unattended. I don’t think the fox has been in our back garden as nothing has been damaged such as football nets or the trampoline net and our back garden is quite enclosed so it would need to jump 6ft fence just to get in which im sure it could do but I don’t think it has.

Some years ago, we were watching tv one evening, and what we thought was a tan-coloured dog appeared at our (open) back door. It was a fox, just standing there! When I moved towards the door, it ran off, but was there again the following night. I threw some corned beef out for it, which it ate. After that, I read up about what foxes eat, and I started leaving out luncheon meat, ham, cheap cheese, eggs, and bread & jam. This fox came every night for a few months, never once bothered our cats (we had 3) and became so tame that we used to feed it by hand!

It stopped coming, quite suddenly, and we didn't see it for weeks. It turned up once again, looking thin and with a mngy tail, closely followed by 2 cubs. That was the last time we ever saw it.

Foxes are beautiful, intelligent, playful. I'd love to see one again.

Foxes are wonderful, shy and nocturnal and dogs are far more worrisome in every respect than these little fellas and sadly most die in their first year mostly hit by vehicles.

I have a family of foxes living behind my rural garden. I rarely see them. They cause no trouble and my cats ignore them and vice versa. But I do very much hear them!