Fox in the garden..

tanith

Burnside wrote: »

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.

Its extremely rare for a fox to kill a cat and would only be a feral kitten if it happened at all. Cats and foxes mainly ignore each other are rarely get into fights... but they will take caged or unprotected pets outside but not cats , they actually aren't that much bigger than a cat and cats are well equipped to deal with them if they ever got too close..

Buttonmoons

My nana had a vixen and her 2 (I think!) cubs that kept coming into her garden and she used to feed them (used to just be the vixen but when she realised no danger + free food she brought the family along) and my nana has 7 cats and they are in and out all the time, never once been attacked, and half of her cats are seriously fat and couldnt run V fast, probs get knackered and roll over for the fox to eat it :rotfl:

cassandradance

We have a fox and several badgers that visit us most nights! we also have two dogs who we dont let into the back garden after 9ish, the badgers are quite brave and will happily wander around the garden and not even run away if we open the door to watch them, but the fox think its a dog as its quite large is very shy!
None of them poo in the garden as far as im aware!

Primrosevilla

We have very bold foxes. Purchased a new doormat last week and by the morning it had been 'christened' with a pile of 'c***'. Couple of days later we purchased a boot brush hedgehog from Tesco, next morning that had been 'christened' as well. It stinks something terrible.

elff

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.

A fox recentley jumped our 6ft + trellece along the top and had one of our rabbits in a heatbeat this was only mid afternoon.... please be really carefull.

He also kept retuning to our garden as we had a second rabbit who we have now sadley had to rehome because of the fox's.

Titch88

I've heard stories of foxes in some areas knowing how to get through many different cages/hutches, be it chewing through them or opening them with the latch.

My family lost our houserabbit Jasmine of 7 years due to a fox. She was playing in the rabbit-proof garden (as she had been doing the whole time we had her) and managed, somehow, to discover a way into next doors garden. Before we were able to get over there a fox nabbed her by the neck and she died instantly.

Luckily for us though it didn't have time to take her body away as 4 of the local cats from the neighbourhood turned up and chased the fox away. So we had her cremated in a little display box.
Afterwards, next doors little black cat, Pixie, still came and sat on the garden step waiting for Jasmine to play out. She'd wait every morning then they'd both run around the garden or just lay with each other on the grass. Pixie also turned up when mum was cleaning out the cage to put into storage, and the poor thing was just sniffing it and crying.

I'd say get some repellent or use the male urine method. It's horrid having to lose a family pet to foxes. There's so many of them now it's like an overpopulation.

viktory

Brief update - the dogs appears to have done the trick and scared Mr Fox away, for now anyway. Thanks for all your posts, I'll update again if s/he comes back.