How to stop foxes pooing in our garden?

[ali23]

Just moved into a new house and have an issue with fixes pooing at night in garden. Smell is rancid.

We have bought a high powered light which emits a high-pitched sound but doesn't seem to be acting as a deterrent. Any experience of the optimum way of stopping this?

Our local foxes decided to use our front door as a territory marking point. The smell was unreal.

So you need to remove the poo, clean with the strongest cleaner you can get. We used Jeyes. You can get teabag type things which you soak and they give off a smell which foxes don't like. Trouble is they are only fractionally less unpleasant than the actual fox poo. The best things we found was use citrus peel - lemons, oranges, grapefruit. Just the peel. Leave it where they usual go and places nearby. Worked straightaway and (crossing fingers & toes) never had a problem since. Still do a good clean up first.

Get your dh to pee in an empty bottle and sprinkle the urine around the outer edges of the garden.
It has to be male urine. Apparently the foxes are tricked into believing that a more powerful mammal has marked their territory

We have this. Our neighbour puts out food in the garden for his cats, with the predictable result that every cat, fox, squirrel (and probably rats and mice too) for miles around heads over there to tuck in, many of them going through our garden. My husband got a device from a hardware shop which is battery powered. It works by emitting a sound which is too high for us to hear but the foxes (and cats, I believe) can hear it and find it unpleasant. It's been very effective for us. They still use the far end of our very small garden but not the bit near the house, and that's manageable. Ours is on the back wall of the house but I see there are similar devices that come with a pole you can stick in the ground. Good luck!

Personally I would get him to pee in an empty icecream container and then transfer it to a bottle, but maybe @Lampzade has accurate male pissers in their family! Any left over can be poured on your compost heap.

Foxes are creatures of habit with very regular bowels, so breaking the habit by encouraging them to make their move ( sorry!) elsewhere is the secret. I am encouraging them out of my garden by smearing biodegradable teabags with Vicks vapour rub and leaving them at the places they come into and out of my garden.

I bought a few of those ultrasonic fox deterrent thingys.
They weren't cheap.
They didn't work.
A fox was sunning himself on the grass not 2 feet away from one of them.
Grrrr

Old thread i know but thanks to @DPotter and her citrus peel trick, I have banished persistent foxes! Wanted to say thanks but also recommend this trick. Will be sending back the ultrasonic thing i ordered and never needed thanks to some simple citrus fruit peel!

@Domino07 and @DPotter Does the citrus peel attract rodents. I wouldn't want to swop one problem for another

Glad to have been of assistance @Domino07 ! Long may it last.

@LadyEloise1 didn't notice any rodent problem, certainly not coming into the house.

I used Scoot scent marker, seems to be ok as I have free range rabbits. Locals feeding foxes doesn't help.