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13-12-2005, 07:42 PM
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14-12-2005, 03:36 PM
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| You go to the barbers and ask them, I saw it on some programme years back but urine does work. We're all bald in my town...my fault...I have the shears.... Last edited by Lesley Jay; 20-04-2006 at 06:48 PM. |
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14-12-2005, 03:58 PM
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| It was Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall on his River Cottage series. He got hair from the barbers and strung it up. Andrewo is right.
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27-01-2006, 07:34 PM
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Give me a call  some people might not like this one a shot gun is the best answer.Because once they get there terriorty paths and routes they will not move on .Chaps are right urine works but then your plots PH giong alter |
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20-04-2006, 05:00 PM
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| We have a fox goes through the garden regularly but I've never noticed he does any harm. I think he just eats the slugs and voles and when he gets lucky, the pesky squirrels. Saw him a couple of days ago running about with a squirrel in his mouth. Any damage I should be looking out for? |
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20-04-2006, 06:34 PM
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| Well, if you have chickens or cats, you will certainly know, foxes will have a go at them. A few years ago we had loads of cats around here (not my favourite animal) but then foxes moved in and the cats started disappearing. I don't think you should worry, they don't damage any of my crops but I know you should secure any unit with chickens in because they will kill all of them regardless of what they are going to eat. Do you think they have an ancient vendetta, did the chicken cross the road just top p*** off the fox?
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21-04-2006, 06:31 AM
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| I can't remember the name of it but there is something you can put around your boundary that is meant to deter them but the annoying thing is that after rain it needs to be put down again - the only long term solution to a fox is to kill it or put up electric fencing
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21-04-2006, 06:38 AM
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| Well I found the stuff but the fun police got there first http://www.derbyfoxes.org/problems.htm
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13-05-2006, 02:02 PM
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| I have loads of foxes in my London garden and the only problem I've had is them once digging in a border. Oh and pooing a couple of times (but let's face it we've all gotta go somewhere and it's hardly nuclear waste!). Some people moan about them ripping rubbish bags - well, hello, get a dustbin. They are definitely not a risk to cats. One of my cats is a complete wuss, afraid of his own shadow, yet I've seen him chase a fox away. |
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02-10-2008, 06:26 PM
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| I have picked up this old thread in the hope that someone has any other ideas. My main issue with the foxes that regularly visit my garden is that they are pooing on the lawn. Not nice when I have three kids who play out there, but I also have a cocker who likes nothing better than rolling in fox poo. Have you smelt that stuff???? It is the very worst smell. I don't have the time to keep bathing the daft dog! Also, the foxes are causing damage. I have a lovely bird table which sits on top of four posts with trellis in between. Over the last few weeks, they have been stripping the trellis. I don't feed the birds at the end of the day and the food never lasts for more than a few minutes (on account of the pigeons sitting on the roof waiting for it), so I'm not sure why they have suddenly started doing this. My garden is enclosed by high fences and walls with trellis on them. Any suggestions please? Has anyone actually tried the hair in tights suggestion? Jools |
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10-10-2008, 08:26 PM
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| Jools - i share your pain. Although i have never seen them (my neighbour has), i have a family of foxes using my garden as a playground at night, and a toilet. There is fox poo everywhere, even right up by the patio next to the house. Its foul and very easy to step on (especially when i haven't mowed the grass in a while!). I don't know how to deal with them short of putting up a very high fence at the botom of my garden, which i don't want to do as i back onto a lovely field (which i suspect is where they live!). I've had soil dug up in my raised beds and they even poo on the netting i have over my veggies!
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10-10-2008, 08:37 PM
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| electric fencing probably works best, they really don't seem to like getting electrocuted. you need to put up a warning for any young scrotes that want to climb your fence, so they don't sue you .... my neighbour has an 8 foot fence at the back of his house, but it's been on the fox run for years, the fox just goes straight over the top, and out at the side (if the stupid thing walked round it wouldn't have to jump at all).
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10-10-2008, 08:38 PM
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| Er ... we feed ours  They were born under our shed (3 cubs) now 2 years old, they come every night about 10.15 eat the remains of the cat and dog food and any other leftovers. If we haven't put it out they wait for it or come back later They leave the chooks and cats alone (chooks are locked up at night) and play chase with the dog!! I suppose it's better the fox you know!Sorry crummy pics - taken through kitchen window - have some lovely video of them at 12 weeks with mum http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...1&d=1223664078
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10-10-2008, 08:43 PM
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| i tried feeding our fox, but the neighbourhood cats always got there first, he doesn't come through till about 4am  would be lovely having babies in the garden
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10-10-2008, 08:50 PM
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| foxes can climb, BOY can they climb, my brother has just done a loft conversion in their bugalow, imagine his shock when on the first night they moved into their new bedroom, having left the window open to appreciate the breeze of the shore, a fox suddenly jumped in, imagine it's shock too, apparently it had been living in the loft the winter before. only way in is up a five foot high concrete wall along the top , jump onto the roof and in through the skylight.
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10-10-2008, 11:55 PM
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| which is why chicken runs without roofs are not fox proof ...... they will also dig under if they can't go over.
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11-10-2008, 12:05 AM
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I do keep the cats in at night, for all people say, and the official line is ( i rang the rspca and asked) they are no danger to cats, I personally have seen the consequences, but only in the pup season, when they really need the food. up until last year it was not a real problem, bin bags are a source of food for them, this year however the council have put us finally on wheelies, good for us, bad for foxes. we are right next to a railway line, so we have plenty, and at dusk, especially when its a bit foggy ( on the coast here) it is not unusual to turn the corner and come face to face with them, and you can often, if you are still awake, spot me hanging out of my bedroom window at 4 am, watching mom teach the pups to raid the bins, while dad keeps a look out, barking if he spots anything to worry about. I know people say they carry disease, and cause havoc, and having seen the damage they can do to a chook run first hand, empathise with chook keepers. Get that run determinedly foxproofed, and enjoy one of the only wild creatures that seems to live in harmony with us, despite our habit of stealing their habitat. I for one, would willing put up with smelly poo, to enjoy the company of our urban wildlife, and would hate to see their eradication.
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11-10-2008, 12:44 AM
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| Well said Bridey A little more harmony in this small world of ours would go a long long way. We share our world not own it.
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