Fox in the garden..

viktory

..and I have two outdoor rabbits Their hutch is as secure as possible, and covered at night but I am very worried. The dogs have chased the fox away a few times but it keeps coming back.

lallysmum

Get a male (unless you are one, sorry) to urinate around your boundaries, especially around the rabbit hutch.

Something in the urine smells horrible to foxes (not just foxes tbh, lol) and it should help keep them away.

Worked here. Stopped Mr Fox coming back for the third night running to kill my chickens.. he hasn't been back since August now.

toniq

I got http://www.primrose-london.co.uk/beast-repeller-p-4742.html?source=googlebase

and it worked a treat, hasn't affected me or my dog, actually my dog sniffs it but has no interest in it.

Before we got this foxes would literally stroll across my patio and my dog indoors would go manic, it has totally stopped the issue, not had one in our garden since installing it when we were getting loads before as our house backs onto allotments.

tanith

viktory wrote: »

..and I have two outdoor rabbits Their hutch is as secure as possible, and covered at night but I am very worried. The dogs have chased the fox away a few times but it keeps coming back.

I agree about the man pee around the garden it does seem to work.. just be aware that they are not only active at night my daughter had to have one of her dwarve rabbits PTS after it was attacked by a fox while she was in what we assumed was a secure covered wire cage which my daughter would put her bunnies in to graze on the grass in the daytime, the fox bit through the wire cage and attacked her. This was a shop bought sturdy metal cage not chicken wire .

pinkcandyflossprincess

it may be good to warn the neighbours in advance though:eek:

Sublime_2

My dog seems to keep the foxes at bay, and he's been neutered. He goes nuts if he senses them.

spike7451

Sadly it's a sign of the times.Building work is forcing the foxes & badgers from their homes & they end up coming into towns to forage for food.I have both a badger & fox that come into my garden at night,since the new estate being built not 200 yards away from my home means I'm no longer living next to the countryside.

Mojisola

pinkcandyflossprincess wrote: »

it may be good to warn the neighbours in advance though:eek:

If your man is shy, he can wee into a watering can in private and then you can spread the stuff around without frightening the neighbours!

If there's any spare, use it on the compost heap.

pulliptears

We have at an estimate at least 8 foxes that stalk around our estate at night, we are quite close to a field and wood though so it's not too much of a trek.

This time of year foxes are mating, so the cries are quite common. My 18 year old DS was awoken by these cries a few weeks ago around 5.30am. He pulled back his curtains to look up into the garden (his bed is under the window) and found himself nose to nose with a rather large fox who was sat comfortably on our conservatory roof staring back in at him. I actually heard him yelp from my room, scared the bejesus out of him lmao

Sublime_2

I'm in the countryside, so no surprises for me to have foxes. I'm glad my dog deters them, as they leave poo everywhere, and try to get in my bin.

Burnside

We're having the same problem, several foxes patrol the area at night and one's taken to sitting in my garden during the day. This is really frustrating as we've just moved recently from a flat and were hoping to let our cats roam free - they only get out under supervision just now as I have several friends whose cats have been injured or killed by foxes.

Apparently there's a non-toxic deterrent called Get Off My Garden - they don't like the citrus smell of it. If you go down the manpee route, maybe get him to fill a container indoors and use that to pour it round the garden so your neighbours don't call the cops!

If you do find a deterrent that works please do let us know.

Cheers.