That explains it!

[walshie 2,804]

I have been wondering why we have an endless supply of foxes in our garden and now I know why. The Doris whose garden backs onto ours feeds them every single night and they must use my garden as a route to her garden, having a dump on the way through most nights.

 

She feeds them jam or honey sandwiches, laced with some powder she gets from the fox-huggers to treat them for mange.

I have managed to trap 5 so far, but now we have a sneaky one I can't seem to catch and I wondered if anyone had any tips on how to catch it.

 

I have tried loads of baits - jam sandwiches, for obvious reasons, dead pigeon, dogfood, 2 day old chili con carne, and none of them will get the fox into the cage.

 

For the last week, we have had a visitor every night, but it won't go in. I put a dead feral in there and it looks like the fox had been trying to dig it out from under the cage. Then yesterday morning it had dragged the flyblown pigeon to the bars of the cage and eaten it through the bars. Only a handful of feathers left.

 

Last night, I put some old chil con carne in an ice cream tub and hung it in the cage so the only way to get to it would be by going in. This morning there is the same old fox stink out there and the shrubs around the cage are all busted like the fox had been standing on the cage.

 

Before anyone says free shoot it, I don't have an open ticket, so caging is the only option, and I don't really fancy waiting up all night anyway.

 

Any (sensible) suggestions much appreciated.

 

Dave.

[paulus 26]

snare it where its comming into your garden pm lab for advice

[Nik_B 3,791]

Just a thought but what about putting food out for it with out the cage for a while to let it get more confident? Then snare or trap the bugger.

[Malt 379]

Maybe it's already seen the inside of a trap and won't go in one again?

[walshie 2,804]

Maybe it's already seen the inside of a trap and won't go in one again?

That's what I reckon, but surely the inside of a trap should be the last thing they see? Unless some do-gooder has caught it and released locally.

[long dogs 580]

try cat food,

[simonrocco 175]

try putting some bait outside the trap and a bit in the middle of the trap as well as bait in the back of the trap to try and entice it in if that dosent work then i would try snaring it. it sounds like it might have already been traped before and if it has you'll be lucky to trap it again atb pal

[J.DOG 1,355]

I could have that fox gone in a one night guaranteed

[reddawn 2,173]

have ye covered the floor in the trap?? some foxes dont like walking on the wire

[lanesra 4,007]

Move House

[gnasher16 31,602]

Any (sensible) suggestions much appreciated.

 

Dave.

 

What about knocking on the birds door and telling her to stop being such a f****n prat !

[WILF 51,486]

Forget about it and leave them alone?........by the way, fair play to the old girl for giving them the mange treatment if that's what she is doing, mange is a f*****g terrible thing to see on some of those animals

 

As for shooting, to be honest I wouldn't be letting fly rifle rounds in a suburban back garden ( if that's what it it) open ticket or not......so, you will have to catch it, take it to your permission and then shoot it.

Is it really worth all that f*****g about ?.......I would personally get more pleasure just watching them

Edited September 4, 2012 by WILF

[walshie 2,804]

have ye covered the floor in the trap?? some foxes dont like walking on the wire

 

Yep. covered it with grass and leaves.

[walshie 2,804]

Any (sensible) suggestions much appreciated.

 

Dave.

 

What about knocking on the birds door and telling her to stop being such a f****n prat !

 

My Mrs has pointed out the error of her ways, but she's a bit nutty. About 65 years old and lives with her brother and father!

[walshie 2,804]

Forget about it and leave them alone?........by the way, fair play to the old girl for giving them the mange treatment if that's what she is doing, mange is a f*****g terrible thing to see on some of those animals

 

As for shooting, to be honest I wouldn't be letting fly rifle rounds in a suburban back garden ( if that's what it it) open ticket or not......so, you will have to catch it, take it to your permission and then shoot it.

Is it really worth all that f*****g about ?.......I would personally get more pleasure just watching them

 

I quite enjoy watching foxes too, but the smell is terrible, they trample Mrs Walshie's flowers to bits and dump right outside my back door.

Interestingly none of the 5 we have had have been mangy, so either the nutty bird is doing a good job or doing it for no reason.