Getting rid of foxes/fox cubs.
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Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Aw, look at their ikkle wikkle facey wacies. Aaawwwwwwww.
Numbers
an ting!
You can have them if you want them. They'd be easy to catch and I have 2 cat carriers and could put 2 in each one.
+ I'll deliever if in London.
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Balls, I'm in the Midlands. Oh well. Not sure they'd get on with my cat anyway, plus I don't have a shed. You could take some video of them though and post it to Youtube for me. I'll live my fox joy vicariously through you
Numbers
an ting!
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
sorry numbers no help here but they are hugely cute
and i would take them in a heart beat v v cute
and i would take them in a heart beat v v cute
Boycey
juvenile rave slut
I'd prefer the foxes tbh.
Numbers
an ting!
I agree they are, you should see them when they're running about, they're tiny little things and so gorgeous, they're smaller than my cats, but my cats are cuter and they're freaked out totally, I have to force them to go out and do their own poo poo's etc.sorry numbers no help here but they are hugely cute
I'll try and get some of then when they're running about.
Awwwww! I love my fox residents http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=290045
Bring them to me and I will be able to live the dream of having a hand-reared fox.
It's a shame that they're causing a problem for your cats, and I can understand why you don't want them around. Luckily I don't have any pets here so I can encourage my foxes to keep coming back
http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=290045Bring them to me and I will be able to live the dream of having a hand-reared fox.
It's a shame that they're causing a problem for your cats, and I can understand why you don't want them around. Luckily I don't have any pets here so I can encourage my foxes to keep coming back
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
We had a family of foxes move into our garden, living under our shed. At first we thought 'how cute', but then, like you, they started to destroy the garden, shitting everywhere, digging holes, bringing all manner of crap and leaving it/burying it/shredding it and spreading it around. The final straw was when the 'awwww' baby foxes (I loved watching them play while I drank my morning coffee) became teenage foxes and spent all night screaming their tortured-baby scream.
So we called the Fox Project, as recommended above, and they suggested we used fox repellent (we used one called Scoot, from the local garden centre). That works by mimicing an animal scent. We spread it around the garden on rags, especially around the entrance to the fox hole. That meant that the young fox cubs ended up covered in the scent of a mystery animal. Mummy fox, not being able to defend her territory against this interloper that was apparently coming into contact with her kids, moved her family on within a couple of days. When we were sure they were gone, we blocked up the entrance to the fox hole and never heard from them again.
So we called the Fox Project, as recommended above, and they suggested we used fox repellent (we used one called Scoot, from the local garden centre). That works by mimicing an animal scent. We spread it around the garden on rags, especially around the entrance to the fox hole. That meant that the young fox cubs ended up covered in the scent of a mystery animal. Mummy fox, not being able to defend her territory against this interloper that was apparently coming into contact with her kids, moved her family on within a couple of days. When we were sure they were gone, we blocked up the entrance to the fox hole and never heard from them again.
Numbers
an ting!
I'm off to the garden centre in a minute, have been reading the sites recommended.
What's been particularly nasty is the Vixen has been bringing back soiled nappies of all things, and as you say, they're being shredded and scattered around. Every morning I have to go out and gather up all their shite.
Would it be irrational and stupid to cry "WANT!!!"?
Because foxes are usually flea ridden, rabies spreading and baby stealing...?
onenameshelley
is Major Morgan's bitch
I have a run down shed in my garden, do they need their mum still?
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
Frankie Jack
Not a bloke..
Very cute.. but wilder than a wild thing on a wild day...
Long may they stay so..
Long may they stay so..
Funky_monks
Neo-Rustic
12 bore?
Visions of Jasper Carrott - Bye, bye moley...
You'd need heavy shot and to get close. If I'm shooting a fox, I'll do it from about 30yds with BBs.
I cannot believe what the RSPCA said about facing a fine though - you are obliged by law to control vermin on your land and foxes fall into that category. You can kill them at will and be well within the law.
Bunny-hugging fuckers. They used to release town foxes in the next village along until the villagers kicked up a stink.
paulhackett
voiced by strother martin
bump-ish - if anyone is still having problems..
Having tried dung etc. fwiw the Foxwatch motion sensor has removed the problem for me.. not sure if it has affected local cats and dogs though (I think it's fine.. it lets off a sound apparently audible only to foxes).
They came, they peered at the sensor and they have fucked off. Seemingly permanently.
Got it in a local shop but it's this thing
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/foxwatch-p-1722.html?osCsid=3f0e9dd977254c9bc30f58957043e380
Having tried dung etc. fwiw the Foxwatch motion sensor has removed the problem for me.. not sure if it has affected local cats and dogs though (I think it's fine.. it lets off a sound apparently audible only to foxes).
They came, they peered at the sensor and they have fucked off. Seemingly permanently.
Got it in a local shop but it's this thing
http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/foxwatch-p-1722.html?osCsid=3f0e9dd977254c9bc30f58957043e380
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
Foxes have been driving me insane recently as they keep screeching outside my window at night
A few days ago I was walking home through the square gardens when I saw a hideously sick young vixen covered in mange and fly-strike limping along slowly in bright sunshine.
She was so sick that she just curled up under a tree in full public view and tried to rest, just occasionally lifting her head to snap at the flies hovering over her flank.
Much as they drive me mad I felt horrified to see an animal in such terrible condition and i knew she would die horribly soon so I called the RSPCA.
A cheery short but hefty woman turned up sometime later and i went downstairs to help catch the vixen, who became suddenly very agile when people were trying to catch her.
FWIW the RSPCA woman didn't seem a bunny hugger at all to me and she commented on how difficult it was to kill foxes without harming people's pets.
It took us about 20 minutes to catch the vixen and then she killed her with an injection. Up close the animal looked even worse and had maggots crawling around in the wounds on her flank.
Apparently she had a bolt gun that she would have killed the fox with comparatively quickly but because people in cities sometimes attack RSPCA officers when they shoot foxes she preferred to spend time catching them and injecting them for her own safety.
Apparently a lot of urban foxes die young, this one would have been a March born fox. Not much of a life for her. the mange was disgusting, she was covered in what looked like white powder and her skin was all cracked and bleeding, worst on the ears and she was blind in one eye that was all crusted up with mange. Plus she'd been fighting and had loads of open wounds, which was probably the screeching that's been stopping me for sleeping for the last few nights.
Upset me for days it did.
A few days ago I was walking home through the square gardens when I saw a hideously sick young vixen covered in mange and fly-strike limping along slowly in bright sunshine.
She was so sick that she just curled up under a tree in full public view and tried to rest, just occasionally lifting her head to snap at the flies hovering over her flank.
Much as they drive me mad I felt horrified to see an animal in such terrible condition and i knew she would die horribly soon so I called the RSPCA.
A cheery short but hefty woman turned up sometime later and i went downstairs to help catch the vixen, who became suddenly very agile when people were trying to catch her.
FWIW the RSPCA woman didn't seem a bunny hugger at all to me and she commented on how difficult it was to kill foxes without harming people's pets.
It took us about 20 minutes to catch the vixen and then she killed her with an injection. Up close the animal looked even worse and had maggots crawling around in the wounds on her flank.
Apparently she had a bolt gun that she would have killed the fox with comparatively quickly but because people in cities sometimes attack RSPCA officers when they shoot foxes she preferred to spend time catching them and injecting them for her own safety.
Apparently a lot of urban foxes die young, this one would have been a March born fox. Not much of a life for her. the mange was disgusting, she was covered in what looked like white powder and her skin was all cracked and bleeding, worst on the ears and she was blind in one eye that was all crusted up with mange. Plus she'd been fighting and had loads of open wounds, which was probably the screeching that's been stopping me for sleeping for the last few nights.
Upset me for days it did.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
My mum worked in vets surgeries for many years, and she said that you couldn't do the job if you were a sentimental kind of animal lover. I'm sure it's the same for doing RSPCA work. You are going to see alot of animals in distress.
