Foxes in neighbour's abandoned garden

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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????

I was just wondering the truth vs the story.

Our “tamest” fox (who may get within 6ft if we are lucky but then immediately backs off to about 20ft) is a terrible for trying to steal things. She ran away with a solar powered light in spite of me running after her, one of my gardening shoes when I’d left them at the door to come in for a moment, and the other day ran off with a pruning saw!

She also likes to come into the garden for a lie down in the sun in the morning when I assume the cubs are getting a bit boisterous. I am worried that we are not getting any cubs this year though. I know one had died as a neighbour found it, but it’s getting late for them to appear.

Here's my garden resident vixen with one of her cubs. Beautiful creatures. My children, dogs, cat and the badgers are not worried.
They are foxes...not wolves.

That’s a beautiful photo. You are so privileged

I live in a maisonette with small back to back gardens in south London. It is over run by foxes. You cannot leave anything remotely organic in the yard. i e. they will take gloves, shoes, slippers, if I forget to lock the under stairs shed where we sometimes put used cat litter until it’s bin day, they will get in and strew the cat shit all over the place. They will dig up my pot plants and destroy young plants, unless I surround them with chicken wire. They defecate in the yard to mark their territory, the whole neighbourhood stinks of fox. When new people move in who are not au fait with the Ways of the Fox, they’ll leave their bins outside, so we’re greeted by disembowelled bin bags, used nappies etc all down the street the next day. I’m afraid I don’t find them remotely attractive.

Absolutely, what’s with the artistically displayed poo? Do they like to balance in a football while taking a crap?

OP God forbid you every move rural. We have chickens that might peck your eyes out. Demonic goats with cloven feet and real horns , killer cows and sheep.

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