Are there any natural ways to kick foxes out of your garden like black pepper or something ? They are digging up bits of my garden and generally screaming like a child being boiled in oil.
Any tips ? and yes I am aware I can shhot them on my own property but i was hoping for something a little less murderous.
Thanks
2007-10-09 02:35:55 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Like a lot of other people, I've heard that peeing around your property will stop them. It's like animals do in the wild to mark their territory. Just don't let your neighbours see you!
2007-10-09 02:48:35 · answer #1 · answered by Meggan's Mum 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
What Smell Do Foxes Hate
2017-01-09 11:41:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try and determine what they are digging for, they may be doing you a favour eating mice or other pests. The most unusual solution I've heard of is used by some councils to deter urban foxes. Some zoos sell big cat scat! [from lions, tigers etc.] That cure may be worse than the problem.
2007-10-09 08:12:42 · answer #3 · answered by Eristic 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure there is little to attract them in the first place. Clear overgrown gardens which could provide resting areas, and make sure there is no food available in rubbish, on compost heaps, or left on the ground for animals. Don’t use fertilisers like blood, fish and bone meal as they attract foxes.
If foxes frequent your garden, they can usually be deterred through the determined use of smell repellents. Many garden centres sell a range of repellents to deter a variety of animals. The use of rags soaked in substances like creosote or petrol, must not be employed as it is illegal, poses a fire hazard and is potentially harmful to animals, including pets.
The successful use of repellents requires persistence. Foxes will not vacate an attractive territory easily and problems with scent marking may get worse before they get better. Foxes may initially increase their scent marking as they battle with you over territory. To be successful, you may have to continually reapply the repellent for some considerable time, before the foxes admit defeat and depart.
2007-10-09 02:42:12 · answer #4 · answered by Sal*UK 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As a previous answerer said - get a man to pee in the area they are coming in. They hate it.
Don't bother with pepper dust - I saw a fox lounging around on an area where I had sprinkled it, so obviously not a very good deterrent!
2007-10-09 02:44:42 · answer #5 · answered by isaulte 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi. I had this problem about 2 weeks ago. They left a massive hole in our lawn. My partner had seen a TV programme that gave a tip about fox problems. This sounds disgusting but........... take a pee on the place where the foxes get in and pee where they dig. My fella took a leak in our yard and we havent seen them again since. It really does work. The smell of the urine scares them and alerts them that something bigger than them are out there.
2007-10-09 02:40:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is going to sound weird but my mum dropped moth balls in the garden (Don't ask!!)
Anyway we haven't had any cats or foxes in since and the slugs don't seem to be eating the whole of our garden either!!
2007-10-09 02:44:16 · answer #7 · answered by Madness 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-17 02:37:39 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As people have already mention, human urine. Also old clothes that have been used, sweat in and not washed. Basically anything that has a very strong human smell.
2007-10-09 02:50:26 · answer #9 · answered by fed up woman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched Hostel and then had a fox make that horrific noise they make I had to get my hunting knife it spun me out. I think they hate the smell of hounds tape a fox hunt and play it load
2007-10-09 02:48:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋