These are shooting - which is too dangerous in urban areas, and cage trapping in combination with the administering of a lethal injection - which is expensive and ineffective.
O nly a vet can administer a lethal injection and most vets are unwilling to put down any healthy animal. Some pest control companies will kill foxes.
If you decide to employ someone to kill a fox on your property you will be responsible for the costs of killing and disposing of the animal which can be considerable. Also, the territory of a culled fox will be quickly re-occupied by another fox. As well as denying foxes a source of food or shelter, there are a few other steps you can take to deal with a fox that has taken up residence in your garden.
Always read the manufacturer's label before use, and follow their instructions. Success with repellents requires persistence. Foxes will not vacate their territory easily. Problems with scent marking and faeces may get worse before they get better. Foxes will increase their scent marking if their territory is threatened. Successfully deterring foxes will require constant re-application of the repellent, often for weeks, before the foxes give up and move on.
Do not be tempted to try to poison foxes as this can put other animals pets, wild birds etc and humans at risk. If you need practical help with foxes you should contact a pest control professional for advice. The British Pest Control Association website is useful for finding a suitable pest control professional. Free running is the most basic type. It is usually placed at the entrance of the den or shelter of a fox. They can also be placed at paths used regularly by the animal.
They are aimed at killing the foxes by strangulating them. A rocking eye snare can also be used. This has an eyelet that does not allow the noose to loosen easily. The fox once caught cannot back out of a rocking eye snare. Another kind of snare is a self-tightening snare. When a fox is caught the noose tightens by itself and does not loosen even if fox stops struggling. Snares can be used to catch foxes but this technique is subject to restrictions, which can hardly be met in urban areas.
It should be understood well that killing foxes is not the solution as they are territorial animals and hence a new entrant may arrive as soon as the place is vacated. The better idea is opting for other ways to keep them at bay. They can be trapped and relocated. The best alternative is to seek the help of a skilled expert to safely relocate them.
The legalities must also be checked before attempting to use traps or any other method if do not want a legal action against you. Deterrents can also be used. Substances such as kerosene, petrol and creosote are suggested as strong repellents. Electric fencing is another safe ways and works well. A small supply from mains or power from a car battery is sufficient.
Other options could be noise generators or a water scarecrow. While the former has variable performance, the latter is very effective without harming the animal. A water scarecrow is a gadget that senses heat and movement and shoots water in the direction. Now, the sweet manufacturers and the pork butchers have been taken over by multinationals and no longer do they go out hunting.
The control of the local pack in a semi-suburban area has returned to farmers. The people who run the multinationals are too busy fending off take-over bids to spend time hunting.
I think perhaps their wives do and certainly some of their daughters do. Even some of my own family have started to hunt, so I cannot any longer feel quite so hostile to it as there are much worse things going on in the world.
Meanwhile, my own private war with the foxes is over. You cannot keep chickens outside anymore. You cannot keep free range chickens because people who have developed systems of keeping chickens in cages have made it uneconomical to allow chickens to go free. Huge companies now produce chickens on a large scale and they have destroyed the farmyard fowl and deprived the foxes of their fun but not of their diet. Myxomatosis has killed off the rabbits which the foxes used to eat, but that does not bother them either.
According to the BBC, they live on the roofs of town houses as well as in holes in my wood. I do not doubt it for a minute. For some reason or other, I still allow people to shoot some of them at harvest time in the cornfields, but it is time I stopped because now I think they are far more effective in dealing with rats and mice than Rentokil or any other company which specialises in pest destruction.
Everywhere I go on the farm, I see where the foxes have dug rats out of holes. They have plenty of time, they enjoy their work, and they enjoy eating rats. So I have nothing against them. Now, our neighbouring farmer comes round before they go hunting, he tells me where they are going to go, he puts up fences at suitable places for them to jump, he repairs the fences if they break them, he thanks me, and it is altogether a great deal more civilised than it used to be.
My family assure me they never, never catch any foxes — or practically never. At the moment, the foxes are easily winning the war because less hands are turned against them, less game-keepers are about, less farmers are protecting their free range hens.
So there are more foxes. The sheer number of foxes makes the job of the hunt more difficult in trying to catch them because, no sooner do the hounds get the scent of one fox than they cross the track of another, so frequently get diverted.
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