Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Foxes....
A few years ago, our garden was infested with foxes. For two or three years, every spring brought new cubs - fox poo everywhere, flower beds dug up, scavenged fast food containers and chicken bones dumped on our lawn. Then, one late summer after the latest batch of cubs had left home, we tidied up the undergrowth at the bottom of the garden and had a general clear up. That winter - and all winters since - the foxes didn't come back. Saw one wandering in the middle of my road at dusk yesterday, for the first time in ages. Are there fewer foxes in Haringey lately?
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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Now you come to mention it I seem to have been seeing fewer. Perhaps the population shifts around a bit. You'll see from these pages that foxtalk is not a rare visitor to these pages.
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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Are there fewer foxes in Haringey lately?
Definitely fewer. Also hadn't seen any foxes for a long time until this week. Some say it's a result of there being less to scavenge since we changed over to wheelie bins for our refuse. Could also be that foxes around here have been hit by a disease of some type.
This article says;
Mange, a parasite infection which causes skin irritation and loss of fur, has
spread rapidly among foxes and has caused them to disappear from many
areas.
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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Perhaps foxes are dying out because the gene pool is infected. Ironically, this could be a consequence of the fox cull/hunt ban.
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Permalink Reply by Birdy_Too on
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Foxes malt for a good chunk of the year, that's why they look so scruffy but the one that has been visiting my garden recently is beautiful, shinny red coat as if she has been brushing it herself.
Seen quite a few recently trotting down the ladder roads.
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Permalink Reply by OneWomanAndHerDog on
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We had a vixen and her cubs living next door when we moved here just over four years ago but major building works works saw them off. We then had only occasional visits until this winter when a very vocal dog fox has taken residence behind our new shed! He may also be drawn here by the scent of our Golden Retriever bitch. He's very funny wandering up and down the back gardens singing his love song...
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Permalink Reply by alistairj on
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Definitely fewer compared with a few years ago and the last one I saw wasn't looking very healthy - whether this was due to disease or just a pretty tough existence I couldn't say.
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Permalink Reply by dubmill on
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While I don't doubt that their numbers may have fallen in other areas, there seem to be quite a few foxes in the locality of the 'Gardens' streets, perhaps because the area abuts on to St Ann's Hospital and the railway line. As well as almost daily (nocturnal) sightings, I hear them barking at night from inside my flat.
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... I hear them barking at night from inside my flat.
They're inside you're flat! Hope you're not feeding them up at the table. :)
Clearly our local foxes have decided the Gardens are a much more inviting terrain; tasty morsels left out at the hospital?
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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There were two fighting outside our place at 4am on Sunday. It sounded remarkably like a person screaming.
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Well, it is the mating season...
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Permalink Reply by Kit on
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I should be SO careful what I wish for. Judging from the bloodcurdling screams that woke me up last night, and the paw tracks all over the lawn this morning, those badass foxes are back....
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Are there fewer foxes in Haringey? The house next door to me is owned by an elderly lady, who's daughter and family are too lazy to look after it. This has resulted in the back garden becoming completely overgrown (trees and brambles etc...). I witnessed four foxes emerging from under the fence that seperates our 2 gardens. They then proceeded to have a crap here and there in MY garden before disappearing to the garden at the bottom of mine (this garden too is also totaly wild). About 2 months ago I couldn't sleep because there were so many of them 'mating' on our road, Rutland Gardens (didn't realise they made so much noise during the act)!
So, I think the answer to your question is (as far as I'm conrcerned) NO.
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