Fox problem

altin_2

and mostly secure fences.....I'm at my wits end!

Do you mean that fox-es can jump fences.
We got a little rabbit for my little boys and during day -time will leave rabbit play outside in the back garden.
There are NO HOLES in the fence and they are 2m hight.
Will a fox jump that high, as my wife is worried....Kids love the little rabbit and they will be unhappy as well.

sb44

paddy's_mum wrote: »

When rabies finally reaches these shores, all those fox lovers who currently feed the blighters and think them adorable will discover what a big mistake it was.

As it is now, ask any vet which creature is the commonest passer on of mange to pet dogs - and the treatment is both onerous and expensive.

I'm a great believer in putting a bit of lead in their ears - preferably with a 12 bore!

I was speaking to a fellow dog owner a couple of weeks ago about her dog.

She had started nibbling at her tail one day like they do when they have a flea. The following morning the owner said her room was like a slaughter house as the dog had bitten right through her tail during the night.

The vet said the dog had picked up fox mange.

:eek:

sb44

altin wrote: »

Do you mean that fox-es can jump fences.
We got a little rabbit for my little boys and during day -time will leave rabbit play outside in the back garden.
There are NO HOLES in the fence and they are 2m hight.
Will a fox jump that high, as my wife is worried....Kids love the little rabbit and they will be unhappy as well.

Well we live in the city and I have seen 3 foxes in the street since we moved here 5 years ago. One jumped onto the front fence a few weeks ago and it's about four foot tall.

nodwah

I remember a TV programme about urban foxes in London and there was this guy from somewhere in Africa who was amazed that we let the foxes roam around - back home they would be killed for meat!!!

there you are - a perfect resource on hand!!

poppet

:mad: :mad: Im so cross, that bloody fox has made off with poor Mrs Turkey!

There's a mass of feathers down by the nest she made for herself and a trail of fluffy grey feathers going under the fence and across next doors land....in broad daylight too!

We're going to have to re-think letting the poultry free range all over the garden if the foxes are coming during the day.

giantmutantbroccoli

Oh no sorry to hear about that. When I was a kid we regularly lost chickens and geese to foxes, until we fox-proofed the run. The fence was 1.5m high, and went 50cm under the ground, and the bottom was secured with metal tent-pegs and weighted down with bricks. It lasted very well until a couple of years ago, when a mink chomped its' way right through the mesh! But as a way of keeping foxes out, it's pretty good.

choille

Sorry to hear that, I just lost ANOTHER hen to the pine marten last week.

It had been roosting up a tree as they do & I stupidly left it out as I couldn't reach her.

I feel guilty as it's a cert that they'll get snaffled.

arkonite_babe

We have a thread similar to this already, I'll add your query to it so all the replies are together. Posts are listed in date order so you'll need to read from the beginning to catch up

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Human hair and male urine put round the outside of the garden is supposed to help.
Doubt it would though.
Maybe worth a try.

DH obliges every weekend. We stopped for a while, and the fox came, so DH has resumed wee-ing around the chicken's area, and abandoned the compost:o. TBH, its not worth not trying.

We've used the fox's devastation here to try two new breeds of chicken, but its horribly sad.