Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Foxes! (Rant)
Anyone else suffering at the moment with this problem? We have been fighting a losing battle with them in our garden. We can't keep them out, despite putting up barriers (they have dug under the fence.) They seem to have no fear, and if you confront them just retreat to a fence and wait. We have had to put up with fox poo in the garden every day, the remains of their meals on the lawn, shoes and toys left out are taken and chewed, bird feeders taken, pots and plants knocked over and destroyed and - this is the final straw! - decapitated our one and only sunflower.... It was unsupported so the head was near the ground. It was intact in the morning but by early afternoon the head was at the other end of the garden bitten in half. I can't imagine a cat or a squirrel could have done that, so the atrocity must have been a fox, and, worryingly, in the middle of the day.
Also been seen rolling around on the lawn, like a family pet. I'm beginning to get a bit worried about leaving the children (1 and 5) in the garden, and having seen one wonder into next door's kitchen, need to think about having the kitchen door closed.
I've seen from other threads that the council won't do anything about foxes but I am going to complain and ask as I think it is becoming a risk. Don't think I should have to keep my doors closed! If anyone else is suffering the same level of problem maybe you could think about letting the council know too?
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Permalink Reply by 14qqtnvjun6bx on
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At night I used to see a fox chomping on the fallen figs, loiter in my garden then take a crap. Removing the tree worked for me. I accept that it might be a coincidence that the fox no longer visits my garden.
I planted two fruitless cherry trees as replacements. Seems like reasonable behaviour to me.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Picked up a fox poo this morning. Damned nuisance - decided to napalm the garden - now no-one goes there.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Think it might be tongue in cheek.
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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Got to love the HOL middle class nightmares! Imagine the horror of an unsupported sunflower being damaged by foxy loxy!
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Permalink Reply by GillianM on
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Can I check - it's still ok to criticise people on here for being middle class, just not for being "chavs"- have I got that right? Yesterday morning first thing I had to scrape up a great big pool of fox / cat diarrohea right by my back door before my toddler toddled into it. I retched so much that I must be really and truly middle class!
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Gillian, what are you putting in your bins for your toddler to be stepping into cat, fox, bin rummager diarroeah? Are you SURE you're middle class? ;-)
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I always thought I was -and unashamedly. But I keep my bins at the front of the house so the bin rummagers don't go to the back door.. In fact any front of house bin rummagers would probably run a mile if they investigated my bin as my child is still in nappies.
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Permalink Reply by Amir on
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Gillian, I'm on Avondale backing on to Glenwood and share your pain.
The other evening there were three rolling around my newly laid lawn, which apparently I can't step foot on yet, and is becoming a fox poop minefield.
This might be of interest:
Fox Wars on BBC One at 22:35 GMT on Tuesday 22 October 2013
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Saw this article too. Liked this bit;
Vixens give birth around March and the cubs are normally driven out to find their own territories by their parents in the late summer and autumn.
"When the adolescent foxes are kicked out of home they become teenage hooligans," says Bryant.
"They come down streets in gangs and cause trouble.''So very true!
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