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Foxes in neighbour's abandoned garden

133 replies

kingat · 09/06/2022 17:39

Hi all, I am hoping to find some advice on the following problem.
We live next to an empty house. The owners live somewhere near, but hardly ever show up.
The garden is a jungle, the jungle overgrows into mine, some plant with strong branches grows in between my hedge panels and I am worried it will get damaged.
For some time now I suspected foxes live there, there was so much rumbling in the evening, but today I saw two, in the afternoon? they looked young and not scared of me at all, but I am scared of them!!!
I have young child and summer is coming and now I am worried about my DC being alone in the garden for a sec. What if a group of them attacks us.
What can I do????

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Tallisimo · 10/06/2022 00:27

Really? Leave the foxes to get on with their lives, you get on with yours.

Isausernameavailable · 10/06/2022 00:31

Contact your local hunt, they may help.

boardey · 10/06/2022 03:15

Foxes are scared of llamas

Who knew.

Dozens of them near me in London, the pooh is rank & they do take things. One went in a neighbours house but ran out again, I wouldn't worry. Lots of cats too but they all just ignore each other. The mating cries are awful.

boardey · 10/06/2022 03:17

They did get my guinea pigs when I was young though 🥲

ChocolateDeficitDisorder · 10/06/2022 08:37

Contact your local hunt, they may help.

By bringing 100 hounds and a crowd of posh, braying, amoral numpties on horseback through your garden?

vodkaredbullgirl · 10/06/2022 09:06

Isausernameavailable · 10/06/2022 00:31

Contact your local hunt, they may help.

Foxes are protected by the wildlife protection laws.

PigletJohn · 10/06/2022 10:48

ChocolateDeficitDisorder · 10/06/2022 08:37

Contact your local hunt, they may help.

By bringing 100 hounds and a crowd of posh, braying, amoral numpties on horseback through your garden?

probably not. the worst that might happen is they might stuff the cubs inb a sack and throw them into a pack of hounds to be ripped apart and eaten alive.

even that isn't supposed to happen.

GonnaGetGoingReturns · 10/06/2022 10:52

Foxes almost always run away from humans and rarely attack them.

They'll be eating rodents in NDN house/garden which is good.

axolotlfloof · 10/06/2022 11:04

GordonBennetttt · 09/06/2022 18:19

What if a group of them attacks us?

Not much you can do if you're in a foxes stomach tbf.

😂
They are foxes, not much bigger than a cat and not know for ganging up on humans.

LoadedDice · 10/06/2022 11:06

PigletJohn · 10/06/2022 10:48

probably not. the worst that might happen is they might stuff the cubs inb a sack and throw them into a pack of hounds to be ripped apart and eaten alive.

even that isn't supposed to happen.

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🤔 wtf is wrong with you? Why would you even write this?

PigletJohn · 10/06/2022 11:07

because it's true.

SpiderVersed · 10/06/2022 11:10

“What if they attack?”
😂😂😂😂😂😂

OP, get a hold of your imagination there. It’s a family of foxes, not a feral wolf pack. A neighbour’s dog is more likely to bite you than BBC a wild fox is.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/06/2022 11:12

All the angst about fox shitting.

Well, let me tell you that every single cat in your neighbourhood is happily shitting in your garden as well. Why don't you get all upset about that?

SynchroSwimmer · 10/06/2022 11:13

Can you put some water out for them…..

LoadedDice · 10/06/2022 11:14

PigletJohn · 10/06/2022 11:07

because it's true.

Lots of things are true. Doesn’t mean you have to mention them when others may take them as a suggestion. Unless you’re a very fucked up person.

Qwertyfudge · 10/06/2022 11:25

@HundredMilesAnHour i have never read anything that suggests the parents of the twins bitten by a fox made it up. The story was widely covered by reputable media outlets

godmum56 · 10/06/2022 11:33

our house had been empty for a year when we moved in and there were foxes living in the garden. Once we moved in they moved out. Like all wildlife, they want the easy life...food, shelter and peace and quiet. If you don't supply those things, they will go to places that will. I don't encourage them as they carry fleas and ticks and their poo stinks..this means I keep most of my garden clear of places to shelter and am very careful with my rubbish. I think you are being a bit OTT OP.

HundredMilesAnHour · 10/06/2022 12:09

Qwertyfudge · 10/06/2022 11:25

@HundredMilesAnHour i have never read anything that suggests the parents of the twins bitten by a fox made it up. The story was widely covered by reputable media outlets

The media weren't interested after the initial shock value but the Police confirmed that it wasn't a fox attack.

Terfydactyl · 10/06/2022 13:05

HundredMilesAnHour · 09/06/2022 22:26

I've been working in a fox hospital for over 4 years now. In that time, I have never been bitten, attacked or caught mange (or any other ailment).

These are photos I've taken of patients. There's no barrier, nothing separating us and no zoom used. Terrifying aren't they?

Oh my days you have the bestest job ever.

IncessantNameChanger · 10/06/2022 13:25

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 10/06/2022 11:12

All the angst about fox shitting.

Well, let me tell you that every single cat in your neighbourhood is happily shitting in your garden as well. Why don't you get all upset about that?

How do you know were not?

One truth doesnt preclude all other possibilities.

I live in in a such a rural location the foxes have literally hundreds of miles of native woodland to shit all over. No fox will die if it cant shit in my 10 x 10 m metre garden when there is over 100sq miles of joined up native Woodlands right next to us.

We dont all live in nature deprived urban sprawl so go shit in the woods. I can throw a stone to point the way

Leonberger · 10/06/2022 15:55

It makes me sad that people in the Uk are so uneducated about wildlife 🙁

CellophaneFlower · 10/06/2022 18:16

I had a resident vixen in my garden for a few years. She annoyed me at first as she had a rubber fetish and would steal flip flops, wellies etc. She ate the football goal, chewed the trampoline and burst multiple paddling pools and balls. I also had to clean her poo up each day, it was like having a dog!

Eventually I grew really fond of her, she'd snooze in the sun on my garden sofa all day or curl up in a plant pot. She barely opened an eye whilst I pottered around her, I loved that she was so comfortable around me. I never fed her though, although I was tempted. She would vanish the minute she heard my children, much to their disappointment 😂

She disappeared at the end of last summer and I do miss her. But it's nice to be able to leave stuff in the garden now without it being destroyed or stolen. I'd often find 1 of our shoes down a different street before I'd even realised it was missing!

CellophaneFlower · 10/06/2022 18:22

Oh just to add... I came downstairs once and she was in the house and legged it with a pair of socks off my washing pile 😂

BigBadBoom · 10/06/2022 19:27

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BigBadBoom · 10/06/2022 19:28

I keep posting on the wrong threads 🙄