Any advice on getting rid of foxes?

[dj1701]

This is why I would never hurt a hair on my local foxes head. https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/attachments/5b4a6298-jpg.649941/

 

[Jchonline]

Get rid of your puny little house dogs and get a real one! We have a German Shepherd….no problems at all.

 

[sea2summit]

Get rid of your puny little house dogs and get a real one! We have a German Shepherd….no problems at all.

Doesn't sound like he has puny little dogs...cat guy.

 

[hube2]

If you can't trap & release, then trap & shoot. Not very sporting but at least you aren't out laying in the bushes all night.

Never thought about that.

But with my luck I'd probably just catch the damn cats.

If you don't want to dispatch them, and just want them to go away, find the den and hang around it a lot. Like several times a day. Mow down any brush or grass around it. Run the mower near it a couple times a day. Throw a couple shovel fulls of dirt down the hole every day. Be "that guy" that you wouldn't want to live next to. They don't like people and they don't like being out in the open. They'll move.

I am looking at ways to make them vacate and I will try all of these when/if I find the den.

I've also read that they don't like capsaicin or vinegar so was thinking about spreading a jar of my pickled jalapenos around the area.

But I'm really only interested in the mamma. If she goes the male will not hang around. I need to make the mother go away because she will use the same den year after year.

 

[ericm979]

If you don't want to dispatch them, and just want them to go away, find the den and hang around it a lot. Like several times a day. Mow down any brush or grass around it. Run the mower near it a couple times a day. Throw a couple shovel fulls of dirt down the hole every day. Be "that guy" that you wouldn't want to live next to. They don't like people and they don't like being out in the open. They'll move.

She'll move to a new den. But she probably will move to a new den in her territory. Foxes are usually territorial. If the surrounding area is all full up (from the standpoint of foxes) then there's no where for this fox to go without having to fight it out.

 

[lman]

Get rid of your puny little house dogs and get a real one! We have a German Shepherd….no problems at all.

Same here. Came home a couple days ago and he had a groundhog up a tree. Good target practice.

 

[Snobdds]

Growing up on a large ranch, I had a .22 and a 4 wheeler. There was no safe fox or coyote. I use to build hay forts on a bluff overlooking the meadows and kept the vermin population down. I got so good sniping with a .22 bolt action single shot rifle. Even if you take them all out, others will move in. It took me years to learn this.

Now I just have a family that has it's den in the field behind the house. They keep the other foxes out and they also keep the praried dogs at bay.

I guess I'm saying, you won't kill your way out of this, accept it and move on. Get one dog that is an alpha and chases them off. For me, the corgi was the dog that didn't back down to no-one.

There is the field where there is a den of foxes. Same family has been in it for close to 10 years now. Also here is the corgi that backs down from nothing. He's been a good ranch dog.

 

[Diggin It]

If you don't want to dispatch them, and just want them to go away, find the den and hang around it a lot. Like several times a day. Mow down any brush or grass around it. Run the mower near it a couple times a day. Throw a couple shovel fulls of dirt down the hole every day. Be "that guy" that you wouldn't want to live next to. They don't like people and they don't like being out in the open. They'll move.

And while you're out there, water the bushes. You know, ... water ... the ... bushes ... the way guys do.

 

[/pine]

Spreading dog hair around their den has been proven effective...(dog groomers are a viable source for non dog owners)...

 

[scaredychicken]

junk yard DOG

or, just a yard dog