Damn foxes!!

drunkenmaster said:
I've a vegetarian, don't agree with breeding animals just to be killed, but I'd have no problem with someone going around getting rid of a pest problem. Council have been asked for, well, decades to do something about it though and they refuse to do anything.
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Get a gun or borrow a friends. Air rifle or real gun. Air rifles might kill them, or it might just be a bit unplesant, either way, you hit htem and they won't be coming back anytime soon.
If you're going in for the kill then you should really got a friend or pro pest controler with a proper gun to sit out in yoru back room with some IR goggles and a brandy and kill them all.
If you kill the moter one and then leave it then the rest should come looking for it, then take out the lot.

Might sound cruel but its the best way, and they are a bloody pain.
 
xJcBx said:
I keep chickens, ducks geese and turkeys, so I understand that there is nothing worse than a bloomin fox to be in yoru garden. (Ofc I do, I live in somerset.)

Killing them on your land could be illigal, however ;)....

When I do it shoot them (Easy, quick, little stress(Not that I care)) and then either throw it on a very very hot roaring bombfire in my field of put it by the side of a lane and then run it over a bit so it looks like its been hit by a car.

If you're not up for shooting it, you can use something bu tI can't remember what its called, we use it for badgers. It causes some sort of cancer?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure its illigal now, but it bloody well works!
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Why do you say it is illegal to kill foxes on your own land? I live in Devon and the farmers do it all the time! So long as its not killed with dogs they are classed as vermin I thought? Unless you mean if he lives in a council estate then yes using a gun that close to other houses would be illegal :D
 
Nix said:
They sound like someone getting raped.

...not that I've urm... ever heard that.

Ahem.
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The sound is quite disturbing, we hear it around here in the summer. I’m that someone from the hunting brigade will help you out.
 
xJcBx said:
I keep chickens, ducks geese and turkeys, so I understand that there is nothing worse than a bloomin fox to be in yoru garden. (Ofc I do, I live in somerset.)

Killing them on your land could be illigal, however ;)....

When I do it shoot them (Easy, quick, little stress(Not that I care)) and then either throw it on a very very hot roaring bombfire in my field of put it by the side of a lane and then run it over a bit so it looks like its been hit by a car.

If you're not up for shooting it, you can use something bu tI can't remember what its called, we use it for badgers. It causes some sort of cancer?
Anyway, I'm pretty sure its illigal now, but it bloody well works!
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I have this mental image of you masturbating furiously and grunting whilst you look down the sights:o.
 
I feed my local foxes every night, they wait over the road at the same time each night for me to take some food to them.
 
I've just spoken at length to John from the foxwebsite who unsurprisingly is a bit of an expert on the matter. Apparently the unltrasonic devices are a complete waste of money, which is what i expected having tried one myself in the past to stop dogs from barking.

The two approaches that work best are:

1) A device called 'Scarecrow' which is a motion detector that detects movement within 10m and sprays a jet of water up to 180° at mains pressure:

A little video of it in action sorting out a deer:

http://www.foxolutions.co.uk/Foxolutions Deterrent Video.WMV

2) Unwashed dog hair placed in clumps around the fence.

I've asked the local pet groomer to keep a stash of hair for me and will be picking it up in a few days once they've got a box full and going to order the water device and see how that goes.

Thanks for all the sensible suggestions and for the more amusing ones!! Apparently lion dung will only work a couple of times before the foxes work out that there isn't a lion about and feeding them is just asking for trouble. The dog hair combined with the water jet is supposed to be almost guaranteed success unless it's freezing outside. Also shooting them from a range of 10m would be a bit of an unfair contest!! As for feeding them, they get enough food out in the woods!
 
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Busa said:
I feed my local foxes every night, they wait over the road at the same time each night for me to take some food to them.
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You're a bad person.
^TANK^ said:
I have this mental image of you masturbating furiously and grunting whilst you look down the sights:o.
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You're sick.
JoeMama said:
I've just spoken at length to John from the foxwebsite who unsurprisingly is a bit of an expert on the matter. Apparently the unltrasonic devices are a complete waste of money, which is what i expected having tried one myself in the past to stop dogs from barking.

The two approaches that work best are:

1) A device called 'Scarecrow' which is a motion detector that detects movement within 10m and sprays a jet of water up to 180° at mains pressure:

A little video of it in action sorting out a deer:

http://www.foxolutions.co.uk/Foxolutions Deterrent Video.WMV

2) Unwashed dog hair placed in clumps around the fence.

I've asked the local pet groomer to keep a stash of hair for me and will be picking it up in a few days once they've got a box full and going to order the water device and see how that goes.

Thanks for all the sensible suggestions and for the more amusing ones!! Apparently lion dung will only work a couple of times before the foxes work out that there isn't a lion about and feeding them is just asking for trouble. The dog hair combined with the water jet is supposed to be almost guaranteed success unless it's freezing outside. Also shooting them from a range of 10m would be a bit of an unfair contest!!
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Don't be a pussy. Shoot them.
 
Gah, we had one of the water sprayers around for quite a while, unfortunately we have a very long garden(due to the station) with not quite as big gardens on the road the other side of the station, and about 30 odd gardens inbetween bridges. Which means the one we used would only keep them about 30foot away from the house, would need 2 more of them to cover the garden. It did keep them out of range well, the problem being, firstly I can hear the dang water spray going off, its not very quiet, the devices fail quite easily and they'd just be making as much noise at the bottom of the garden, or anywhere in about a 10 garden range and its still way to loud.

hehe, when we'd forget to turn it off in the morning, scared the living crap out of our cats when we let them out also :p

Thats all ontop of our pipework not being great so can't leave the outside tap on in the dead of winter due to water freezing problems.

Think we really do need to kill a bunch to scare them off, but the council, nor anyone else, wants to know about it. They basically live on the Tube's property, so need them to deal with it legally, and they won't. :(
 
I think JoeMama's idea of the 'Scarecrow' which is a motion detector that detects movement within 10m and sprays a jet of water up to 180° at mains pressure is a good idea personally.
 
JoeMama said:
I used to shoot .22 in competitions when i was younger so shooting animals the size of an adult dog at 10m would be most boring ;)
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You could spend a load of money on some water thing that may or may not work, or just shoot it straight off, dump it at the side of a road and be done.

I do some .22 comps now, I'm not the best shot but it gets the job done :D

I quite like my little brothers 177 unstead of my 2 .22s, its nicer to shoot :s

+ That water thing will probably make a lot of noise too, and if thats what you're trying to stop surely its the wrong thing to start with?
 
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