Not sure what to do...

mrcol1000

If you don't want the Fox in your garden then don't leave it any water as they are wild animals and they will keep coming back to water and food sources.
I am sure its nice having a bit of wildlife in your garden but when it starts attacking your cats or next doors dogs tear it apart or even better it decides to mate in your garden at 3am (anyone who has heard that noise will know what I mean) your soon wish it had gone and by the then it will be a lot harder to get rid of.
Foxes are wild animals and so can look after themselves. The RSCPA won't come out partly because a lack of resources and mainly because most of the time its best to leave the fox to it. Unless a fox has been injured due to an animal attack or being hit by a car its best not to intervene.
It may come to a big suprise to some people but wild animals and birds can survive without humans and its humans who make the animals lives worse often through their kindness.

lowis

the foxes round my way (City of London) are incredibly bold and brave. and the ones near my friend's house in Islington are out and about most evenings, and some even come out during the day time to sunbathe on top of garages and outhouses (especially the ones with mange, I think the sun relieves the irritation).

i have often got within 5 feet of foxes when cycling home at night, i think a lot of people feed them in London so they do not have as much fear as the ones in the countryside. in fact the other night a fox was in my friends garden as i was exiting her home, the fox didn;t bolt, it just sat on the lawn staring at me! cute little thing...

Froglet

deep in debt,try looking up this website and see if they can offer any suggestions....

http://www.nfws.org.uk/

clutterydrawer

foxes are very used to humans these days, its nothing out of the ordinary. It's not uncommon for them to enter houses in london.

jackomdj

We often get foxes in our garden, they sometimes come in to have a drink from the pond, they will sit in the shade or they will sit out in the sun. Luckily they have never bothered the rabbits! They are quite used to humans & will just sit & watch us. Last year one of them looked quite malnurished & had a grotty tail, but this year they all seem to be doing well.

We also get a hedgehog, lots of squirrels, a woodpecker in the dead tree near us, a big variety of birds, frogs & newts in the pond, used to get a few badgers but have not seen them for a few years now... I feel very lucky to share my suroundings with such an abundance of wildlife!

Nicky

fatpiggy

Urban foxes don't give a hoot about the time of day or whether anyone is around!

If you think your story is strange let me tell you another. I grew up in the countryside and our house was separated from our neighbours by a field. They had horses and the muckheap was just a few feet from the gate. One sunny day we spotted something large and dark on the muckheap which was identified with a pair of binoculars as a dead badger. Poor thing we thought. An hour the "dead" badger woke up from his snooze in the sun and came trotting across the field towards the stile in our back hedge. We couldn't believe it and went outside and whistled to it. It came over and let us give its back a scratch and a stroke!! It wasn't fully grown but was in excellent condition. Then off it trundled and we never saw it again. We asked around as it was clearly hand-reared, but no-one admitted having lost it and to be honest, no-one around the immediate area would have had the knowledge or interest to have one as a pet. We would sometimes see badgers a little down the lane at night, or find footprints around our garden, but I certainly didn't know of any local setts - they had all been taken over by foxes when badgers were being gassed (TB panic) in the 1970s.