Wit's End - 7 foxes in my town garden this afternoon

olly300

Get yourself a large tomcat or even a male kitten who likes chasing things.

I use to live next door to a neighbour whose large white tomcat use to chase all the foxes away plus all the other neighbouring cats. I only realised that the garden was mostly fox free and that there were a load more cats in the area after that neighbour moved away. (I used to live at the back of a railway line with plenty of undergrowth and there were definitely litters of fox cubs but they never bothered us until the cat moved away.)

Currently I have another neighbour who has a tomcat and he has done a great job since being a kitten of helping to keep the squirrels away from my garden plus the other cats. There is also less of a fox smell......

trudiha

lostinrates wrote: »

That's interesting I wonder if it could indeed be a gender/nuetering thing. We get no fox poo in the garden r yard at all. In the snow there were tracks that made a loop around the yard/garden but not into it....where as the dogs tracks weren't all round the edge of the boundary.

I think it's a space issue, in a rural or semi-rural area foxes have the luxury of being able to avoid other animals' territory. That's not the case with town foxes, so they've adapted to the local conditions. I was brought up in the country and I hardly ever saw a fox, the ones in town will stand their ground and allow you to walk within 6ft of them.

mardatha

I've lived here over 30 years and never seen a fox but saw loads when I worked nights in Edinburgh .