Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Foxes on Ferme Park Road
I have nightly visits from 4 very young foxes and their parents. They are quite beautiful but a noisy menace: most summer mornings find me clearing up the trash they drag in, which often includes fast food boxes and recycled food: yuk! Hitherto the only way to stop this was by having night patrols - they scare very easily - but this doesn't stop them wrecking my garden and digging up anything that I try to grow.
Last night (5th June) was different. At around midnight the sound of the foxes at "play" was met by a loud high frequency range transmission. It worked well; they scarpered and did not return.
Does anyone know anything about this?
Andy
Tags for Forum Posts: foxes
Replies to This Discussion
-
Permalink Reply by Finsbury Park Ranger on
-
You can buy anti cat sound 'guns' that work well if you're within about 7 - 8 meters. Would scare the foxes really easily I imagine but you do need to be quite close. You get them with a laser pointer as well so you can better target the sound or get arrested annoying police helicopters, if that's your bag.
-
Permalink Reply by Andy on
-
Thanks. Good info on the source. Looks like unless I set up a rota, my nightly patrols are here to stay. Peeing is supposed to help although I'm chary of doing that, too much! One of the parents was out way before dark and they're knocking around right now (2am)
-
-
For the garden you can stop them easily by placing a motion sensored water pistol device available on Amazon, the only downside is that it's got to be plugged into the tap through the night so you need an outdoor tap.
Will stop the cats crapping all over the yard as well. Not cheap though £50 - £75 quid. Also you'll have to get used to booby trapping yourself many times before you get used to the fact your garden is a water world version of the Vietnam war.
-
Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
-
Have a friend who got one of these (a water scarecrow I think they're called) as her garden was starting to resemble the Somme. It worked really well after she'd sorted out the height at which it was triggered by the foxes rather than by her cats! After a few weeks of being soaked it seemed to do the trick. Her tip is if you hear them in the garden, start to use it again immediately so that your patch doesn't become part of their nightly rounds again.
She got the kit from these folks
http://www.foxolutions.co.uk/index.php?main_page=the_urban_fox
-
Permalink Reply by Nanz on
-
I have one of these after we had the exact same issues last year, they work a treat!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Contech-ScareCrow-Motion-Activated-Deterren...
© 2024 Created by Hugh.
Powered by
