Fox Deterrent??

[Smowball]

A fox seems to have decided that a specific area in one of my flower beds is their toilet. They come in every night, digging holes, wrecking the flowers in that area and doing their business. I’ve put down a fox repellent I bought online which was some kind of granules that you scatter but that hasn’t worked. Anyone have any suggestions of something else I could try??

[douglas9401]

It's expensive but, a few toffs on horseback and a pack of hounds is guaranteed to solve your problem.

[bluemoon1]

They're wild animals and will do what they want, they don't know it's your garden. Live in peace with them, alternatively join the local hunt.

[237SJ]

I use a very mild dilution of Jeyes Fluid in a spray bottle. Stinks but it seems to deter them.

[Smowball]

Does it kill the plants??

[237SJ]

No, I just spray it around on the soil.

[Buenchico]

See 'How can I deter foxes from using my garden?' in this RSPCA document:
https://www.rspca.org.uk/documents/1494939/7712578/Living+with+foxes+%28PDF+419KB%29.pdf/a4ecd8c9-1d64-b6a3-51ef-a755499c9082?t=1559136716127&download=true

and/or see the options listed here:
https://job-prices.co.uk/deter-foxes/

. . . or do as I would and just sit back and enjoy having the foxes around ;-)

[237SJ]

I looked out of the window last night at about 1am and saw a fox chasing a cat down the road. The cat shot up a tree so fast with the fox in hot pursuit. The fox waited at the bottom of the tree looking up at the cat until I went outside and shooed it away. Christ knows what would have happened to the cat if the fox had caught it. Horrible things.

[bluemoon1]

"a few toffs on horseback an a pack of hounds" you know little about fox hunts.

[Smowball]

I would enjoy them but they are digging up all my plants and wrecking the garden.

[douglas9401]

And care even less, bluemoon1

[Smowball]

237sj - lucky cat that you did! X

[andy-hughes]

237SJ - // Horrible things. //

It's just nature, doing what nature does.

The tables were turned in my garden this morning - next door's cat caught a pigeon, but couldn't hold onto it.

There were about fifty magpies and other birds circling overhead making a hell of a racket for about five minutes - obviously warning anything with wings that this is not good place to set down right now.

[woofgang]

Fox poo is rank. I don't mind foxes but I do not want them in my garden

[ladybirder]

I've just fed mine and her baby.

[bluemoon1]

Fair enough douglas, I realised you were joking.

[burlyshirley]

'horrible things' I feel the same way about cats when they kill beautiful blackbirds and thrushes etc.

[anneasquith]

Ooft. I read from LB ‘ I’ve just fed mine her baby ‘