Urban Foxes

still on the lawn when i got home from a ride at 3.30
heading up to the local butchers for some scraps and off cuts, see if we can't become friends

We have at least one mange infected fox here. The link to the free homeopathic remedy earlier in this thread is no longer working. Is anyone aware of anything similar now, so we can help our little friends?

Which of you has been hammering sausages into my lawn?

(ignore the date, cheap wildlife camera, forgot to set the date, this was about an hour ago)

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Pls stop shitting everywhere

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Cute tho

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Very cute! 🙂

Saw a fox casually strolling down a sidewalk in Kreuzberg, Berlin the other day.
Apparently they're back in the city (hadn't seen one in ages, really)..

I see them quite regularly in Neukölln - might be the proximity to Hasenheide. I also spotted my first (german) racoon at Müggelsee a couple weeks ago. In keeping with the stereotype, he climbed into a bin right in front of me.

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He was lured by the menu.

Haha, great shot 😅

And yeah, I suspect there's more foxes (and more Hasen) in the Hasenheide 🙂

Good one :D

Only anecdotally, but it feels like I'm seeing fewer nocturnal foxes on the streets in my N16/E5 area than 2 or 3 years ago. Maybe because Hackney Council have given households wheelie bins for rubbish in the last couple of years?

However, I moved to a new office near Tower Hill last March and took various routes to get to Liverpool St on the way home to get a feel for the area. One evening, I was surprised to see a fox casually strolling around the SE corner of the Gherkin (just off Bury St), oblivious to the many commuters making their way home!

I must be a complete numpty as I was under the impression that the noble trash panda only lived in North America/Canada

I think North American GIs brought some over as pets when they occupied West Germany after the war and now their an invasive species.

Also escapees from the fur trade.

the wild raccoon population exploded during the Second World War when a bomb hit a raccoon farm

nice choice of words there 😅

reminds me of
tornado sweeps through cemetery, hundreds dead

Yes, the journalist succinctly covered both meanings.

It seems my local foxes are now tv stars
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0djqxs2

Ive currently got some fox cubs under my shed/office in my garden. I can hear them squeaking and moving around while im working, so hopefully im not disturbing them too much and they still feel safe an un-stressed there. I reckon they'd probably have moved elsewhere by now if they weren't happy - we've got a dog so they must at least feel safe enough from him to stay.

I had been planning to seal up the gap under the building (it's a timber frame, sat on concrete piers, so there's a decent gap underneath it) with rat-proof wire mesh this summer, but I now am worried about trapping any foxes in there. When could I reasonably expect them to have weaned the cubs and moved out? A couple of months?

My local fox took deep offence to us trying to plant some stuff in our window box/fox toilet. Planted yesterday tea-time, all dug up by this morning.

Something really spooked our cat this morning. Came belting in from the garden. So it looks like they’re kicking around here again.

I got a trail camera / camera trap for my birthday so will set that up with a decent vantage point. Only caught the local tomcat so far!

September apparently

https://www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/Foxes

If you discover an active fox den in your garden, it would be cruel and illegal to block up the entrance or take measures to evict the cubs. Cubs are born in March and abandon the den completely by August or September, so it is best to wait until September

Currently got 5 cubs that are using our garden as a play ground, they're super cute. I haven't seen the mother though.

I'm not sure what my house cat thinks to them as he chased one this evening but wasn't all puffed up or growling so maybe he just wanted to play.

We have a den under our decking, this year there are 5 cubs. Here’s a pic of three of them.

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Before you do, Block the entrance with loose sticks. If the sticks don’t get moved for a couple of days, it’s empty.

We went the other way and planted near the entrance with grasses that give cover to the den entrance. We also put sturdy delivery boxes out for the cubs to play on while they develop the key skill of ripping stuff apart, they’re now destroyed and we keep moving the remaining shreds to the borders to rot down.

Here's two of them this evening

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