For weeks now there is a stench of what I thought was dog pee on the same exact spot of our front garden. And yesterday morning on my way to work & opened the door it got worst as there's a p** left on the concrete!!!!
I always thought it's my neighbour's dog so finally asked her but she said it's the foxes which actually we have seen in our neighbourhood for a while now & she also said they do it on her garden as well.
Pls help on how I can have these damn animals to stop using our little garden as a toilet....please!!!!
You need to find their 'runs' and block them so foxy cant get into your garden. If their den is actually in your garden I'm not sure whats best to do - get on to the council I suppose. I have foxes in my garden, but luckily they must do their business elsewhere as I've never noticed the smell.
The council won't do anything about it jim. My friends had foxes which made a den under their shed. They waited till the little foxlings had left the den (late spring) and the den was empty, and blocked it up by pouring concrete under there. That worked!
I agree blocking their access points helps a lot. They caused havoc in my neighbour's garden one night, she found they got in under the gate, and when she blocked that up, no more trouble. They can climb fences but generally they don't bother, unless there is something particularly interesting in your garden (like your binbag - make sure it isn't available to them).
We live in a cul de sac & at the top of the road is a gate for the allotment where I was told is where those damn foxes congregate. They also can go around it as there's so many open spaces around the allotment....so in fact they roam around our little community. I even saw one day one of them on top of my neighbour's roof.
Btw what's runs? As far as den is concerned there's no den because before I found out it's the damn foxes peeing on my garden I actually looked closely & examined the new plant I planted to replace a nice type of grass we specifically planted two years ago which was damaged by those foxes ( which I didn't know at the foxes were culprit at that time, I just thought it's either the postman who used our garden to access my neighbour's house or myh neighbour's dog who peed & ruined my plants).
The new plant has already started to go brown because of the pee!!!
Oh I'm so angry that I asked my husband if we can kill them if ever we spot any of them right on our garden!
Anyway is there some sort of poisonous stuff that we can spread around the ground or something????
'Runs' are just the routes the foxes habitually use.
I know it's aggravating but I hope you were not serious about death and poisons (apart from anything else, poison could harm any other animal or child which came into contact with it). I love my garden and we too have foxes here. But worse than the foxes, it is overrun with rabbits which can cause devastation, razing favourite plants to the ground overnight. You just have to outwit them - which isn't really that difficult. Assuming it's impossible to stop the foxes getting in, all you can do is try to physically protect any precious plants, say with chicken wire, or grow plants in large pots which the foxes can't reach to wee on.
I'm not sure about the name 'Sunnyspell' you sound more like a 'Rainy Day' to me! Stop being so miserable and celebrate our wildlife rather than trying to control it.
Originally posted by Laughin' in Leeds: I'm not sure about the name 'Sunnyspell' you sound more like a 'Rainy Day' to me! Stop being so miserable and celebrate our wildlife rather than trying to control it.
OK I maybe going OTT with the usage of those words but....I'm been so angry now for the last few months that we've got to do something esp now that I know who's responsible.
It's ok for you to say let's celebrate you don't have the stench right on your front door nor spend money on doing up your garden everytime & even replacing plants!
Anyway I'm off to the garden centre this weekend & seek advice once & for all how to attack those beasts!!!
I'm actually thinking of putting up a fence with sort of spears like tips ...now let's see how close they can get to my garden!!
I too have the same problem with foxes - went out monday morning, they have p**ed and weed on my front door step and i have a storm porch and it really stunk! Srayed the whole porch with disinfectant! and threw the mat - but i have no way of stopping them coming in my garden, i have a 1 foot wall down both sides and along the front apart from the entrance of the drive - i have no way of stopping them getting into the garden .
My dustbin men come on a thursday morning, and if i put any rubbish out the front not in the green wheely bin they tear it to shreds and i get up to a black sack of rubbish spread across my front garden - obviously i avoid not putting rubbish out there not in the wheely bin, but if i put a bag in the top of the wheely bin and it doesnt close properly they still get in there and pull out the bag - i know solution buy another wheely bin! But i've got wheely bin for rubbish, brown bin for recycling grass etc, green bin for paper, red bin for plastic and black bin for bottles - luckily i have a large drive and front garden, but i don't really want it taken over by any more bins!!
Is there any deterent spray that you can buy and at least i could spray that in my porch?
There are various things that claim to be deterrent but I have never ever heard anyone say they work. Ever! So don't waste your money.
The only way is to discourage them by removing any food related rubbish, keeping them out physically if you can, and planting your garden in a way they can't wreck. My friend even went to the lengths of covering her smaller plants with upturned clay pots every night, and removing them every morning, so the foxes didn't ruin them.
dg1 I used to have this problem with my rubbish and foxes - I have plastic rubbish bin but it only fits one black bag and I always have two full bags. So I put all food related rubbish into the bin, and only things of no interest to foxes in the binless black bag. No longer have problems with shredded bags.
By the way the disinfectant may be making things worse and encouraging them to return to re-soil the spot. For your porch area I would try the method which works against cat wee - swill the area out with diluted biological washing powder. It breaks down the proteins so that the animal can't smell their own scent. (I know that works because I have used it myself.) Do this every time they reoffend and see if it helps.
MY mum and dad had a massive problem with foxes a few years back - they kept laying turf in thier garden and the foxes kept pulling it up they were so infuriated they got a specialist who came in and created a string fence round the whole garden and tied peridically along this string rags saturated in a kind of smelly (to them) liquid. Never saw the foxes after that - not sure what it was called but might be worth some googling.
Originally posted by velvet: There are various things that claim to be deterrent but I have never ever heard anyone say they work. Ever! So don't waste your money.
The only way is to discourage them by removing any food related rubbish, keeping them out physically if you can, and planting your garden in a way they can't wreck. My friend even went to the lengths of covering her smaller plants with upturned clay pots every night, and removing them every morning, so the foxes didn't ruin them.
dg1 I used to have this problem with my rubbish and foxes - I have plastic rubbish bin but it only fits one black bag and I always have two full bags. So I put all food related rubbish into the bin, and only things of no interest to foxes in the binless black bag. No longer have problems with shredded bags.
By the way the disinfectant may be making things worse and encouraging them to return to re-soil the spot. For your porch area I would try the method which works against cat wee - swill the area out with diluted biological washing powder. It breaks down the proteins so that the animal can't smell their own scent. (I know that works because I have used it myself.) Do this every time they reoffend and see if it helps.
Thanks, velvet am going to try the diluted biological washing powder when i've written this post! Cheers!
Originally posted by natbar0: MY mum and dad had a massive problem with foxes a few years back - they kept laying turf in thier garden and the foxes kept pulling it up they were so infuriated they got a specialist who came in and created a string fence round the whole garden and tied peridically along this string rags saturated in a kind of smelly (to them) liquid. Never saw the foxes after that - not sure what it was called but might be worth some googling.
Hope that helps!
My mum and dad also had a major fox problem in their back garden, but they had the den in their garden - without upsetting anyone on this forum, but they had them "dealt" with and then blocked the den up! That was some years ago!
Thanks sunnyspell, have just doused my front porch in diluted daz - it smells lovely LOL! Will see how that goes, but don't have the problem that they are ruining any plants - as only have a corner in the front garden which foxes don't seem to be interested in - saying that, don't think my plants there would appreciate a soaking in diluted daz!
It could be worse - according to a story in the Times today, a guy in Scotland woke up one morning recently to find six trees had been felled in his garden.
The culprit was a beaver which had escaped from a nearby estate!
See how lucky we are with just the foxes (Actually we have badgers too and they are very destructive, they trample and flatten stuff, and strip fruit bushes bare in a single night. No beavers though fortunately ).
Good luck with the Scoot, hope it has some effect, I will be interested to hear so I hope you will let us know. I have read it works in the same way as Renardine - I hope that is not so because my experience is that Renardine did not work! (Renardine is no longer licensed or available.)
Well.. went shopping & I've got Get Off, Moth Balls, & Fox Watch - the ultimate fox deterrent so I was adviced by the garden shop people. Scoot is no longer available ..some EU nonsense.
If these still do not keep those damn animals away then I'll just buy a bow & arrow!!!
If all else fails, try Reynardine - most garden centres sell it - it stinks to high heaven but will stop the foxes doing their business in your garden (it stopped our lot, anyway!).
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If all else fails, try Reynardine - most garden centres sell it - it stinks to high heaven but will stop the foxes doing their business in your garden (it stopped our lot, anyway!).
I mentioned in my previous post, Renardine is no longer available (possibly for the same reason as Scoot, I dunno).
Get Off My Garden crystals worked for me against neighbouring cats - but you have to constantly reapply it, and inevitably you forget, and they're back like a shot.
(Don't bother with Pepper Dust though, it absolutely reeks, worse than any animal's doings - but the cats seemed to find it quite fragrant & it didn't put them off at all.)
