Dead Fox in my garden - Uggh

s_b

its amazing how quickly the smell goes once the maggots get in
the flies are the problem then of course:D

valk_scot

usignuolo wrote: »

I am not that squeamish but it is decomposing badly and smells badly and is covered in fleas. I have been away for a couple of weeks and it is behind the compost bin at the end of the garden which is probably why I did not notice it before. I do not want to touch it. My neighbours are an elderly couple in their late 80s.

My real point is not my own case but what people do if they are not in a position to pay £70 to have it removed or to bury it.

Oh, for goodness sake. It's a dead fox, not radioctive material. I was digging very dead rats out my compost bin when I was eight months pregnant. (Was a very bad year for rats on the allotment, we had to put poison down.) They smelled pretty bad but really, the smell was only going to get worse so I got on with it. The first five minutes are the worst, then your nasal passages go numb. Or stick some Vick's Vapour Rub up your nose. Even if I could afford £70 to get rid of a dead fox I'm too bloomin' mean to pay it. Come to think of it are you local to me? I'll do it for £50 cash in hand.

Owain_Moneysaver

usignuolo wrote: »

Managed to find local waste disposal firm who will come round today and charge £70 but what if I was pensioner and/or on low income?

that is a question you need to ask your local councillor.

HappyMJ

I can't believe what I'm reading. Don't want to touch it...then don't. Dig hole use spade to scrape up animal bits drop in hole cover with dirt...done. Don't want to that and only have one elderly neighbour. Where do you live? The outback? Find someone. Preferably about 16-18 or so who would appreciate £10 for an hour of work cash in hand and it has already been said the local lads who are a bit older will usually do it for a cup of tea or a can of beer.

usignuolo

Yes well I could throw some earth over it but I cannot bury it where it is as it is wedged behind the compost bin (is a large rigid plastic one) and where two concrete wall meet in the corner of my garden. There is a tree each side of the bin so it is pretty inaccessible. It is decomposing so picking it up by its tail is not an option and in any case my OH thinks it has probably been poisoned.

We had so many foxes round here last year - my neighbours had a litter of seven under their shed - and ours are only town gardens and only 25 feet long - that it was a real problem, they were digging up the lawns, fighting on the front door step, raiding dustbins etc. I have not poisoned them but should not be surprised if someone has this year as I have not seen any.

And yes I am too squeamish to handle it, its the fleas I want to avoid getting on me. I just want it got rid of. In any case I have now sorted it.

HappyMJ

Fleas want fresh blood they will have moved on by now.

Dexters_Indignation

Call the A team
]They do it for free

Niv

This thread reminds me of a simpsons episode 'cant someone else do it'

teapackets

ukjoel wrote: »

Freecycle - Free dead fox. Beyond eating but still good for a pair of gloves. Buyer to collect...

Thanks for making my day ukjoel, needed a good chuckle

poppysarah

The advice I was given about rats that you find in your garden dead is to throw them on to the pavement where they become the council's problem and will be removed free. (don't tell them you found it in your garden first though)

I would throw some earth over it and leave it alone for months.

£70 is more than enough for lots of bags of soil.
And some vodka for after.