foxes in my garden.

[Guineveretoo]

Indeed! But it certainly doesn't sound like they are having fun!

At one stage, I thought it was the cubs screaming to let their mother know how to find them, but apparently, they don't do that. My daughter thought it was the sound of foxes killing wildlife, but there is not a lot of wildlife round here - at least not that would make that sort of screaming noise!

 

[seeformiles]

We've got lots of foxes round our way but a lot of them are becoming quite tame - which is worrying (for them). A young one tried to make friends with our cat - but the cat was terrified and was not into the idea. The young fox then decided to play "chase" with the scotty dog 2 doors up and that sort of worked.
The mother quite happily walks up the street on the pavement in early morning - just like a dog. Can't help thinking that running away quickly when meeting humans is a good reaction for a fox to have and these are going to meet people a lot less sympathetic than me (e.g. like that bastard who poisoned the one I found at the bottom of the garden last year )

 

[upinsmoke]

I have had foxes in my garden for a couple of years now, i was worried due to the fact i also have cats and last summer a duck took refuge in my pond too but they all seemed to get along ok.
The foxes seem to have gone now though, i don't know whether to fill in the hole they dug under the shed or leave it incase they come back.

 

[chico enrico]

Tell me about it. I wish I got half as much action as the foxes round here seem to.

well, if you're a girl and you want to start sunbathing in my garden licking your genitals whenever i look out you probably would.

 

[Moonchild]

Foxes love sweet things - jam sarnies are a winner.

In my old flat (just off Brixton Hill) I had two regular foxy visitors who were suffering from mange, which is a horrible way for a fox to go... The National Fox Welfare Society will gladly send out a little phial of medicine, with which you lace aforementioned jam sarnies. Foxes scarf them down, and it does work. By the time I moved out, their tails were fully fluffed again.

NB - for cat lovers - cats don't eat jam sarnies, apparently they prefer marmite, so no danger of the medicine ending up in the wrong creature.

 

[subversplat]

That's a lovely website for foxies

Also, anyone concerned about foxes (and hedgepigs, and badgers, and mouses, and birds of prey) in the South East should call St. Tiggywinkles hospital on 01844 292 292 and maybe get a chance to speak to my lovely girlfriend [/gushing]