Felt Eating Foxes.

That's alright then, as long as your pets aren't harmed.

Plastic roofing, zinc, wooden tiles (forget name), lead...?

Geo

Are you really still allowed to used lead on roofs?

Her husband or friend then?

So how many times a day were you sending Spouse up to widdle on your roof? (That's true commitment for you...) :-)

David

Please refrain from using the "al**wed" word in here - if B&Q sell it, I can use it... BTW lead is still - erm - used in solder for aviation, military and medical electronic equipment (where reliability is required) - only consumers must be saddled with the built-in tin whiskers obsolescence.

Geo

We didn't have a problem with fox on the roof.

I didn't send him, he got the idea forom somewhere else. If he wanted to do it that was his problem, not mine. It takes a lot of widdle to cover the boundary even of a modest inner city back garden and when it didn't work he gave up.

Mary

It would take a long time for it to poison the fox too :-(

Mary

If you say so Mary, but I'd have been more upset about it if they'd been my chickens. It does also mean I'll need to get more Tuits (in terms of chickenwire fencing etc) if I'm to keep some myself, which I'd like to do.

I take it you're a fox-hater then? Myself, I quite like them. I know they slaughter animals for their food, but then so do most humans I know. And at least foxes slaughter their own prey instead of having someone else do it for them.(though I'm sure this doesn't apply to any self-respecting DIYer :-))

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Not in small chemically propelled pellets it wouldn't.

Quite. You seemed to think that because your pets weren't killed the fox weren't a problem even though your friend's hens were killed. That's a selfish attitude, I think.

Chicken wire won't keep out fox. Nor badger. It will keep the chickens in, that's all.

I don't hate anything. I don't want fox in our garden and we've taken expensive steps to ensure that they can't get in.

Urban fox have killed about a dozen of our chickens over the years. Note, I didn't say *ate* them, just killed them. Urban fox aren't hungry, they're fed by people and scavenge things left by litter louts (mankind) and careless food disposal, also by Man.

Sometimes we found our beloved hens headless, sometimes just killed with a broken neck. The fox which killed them weren't hungry, they did it for sport, like a dog which also killed one of our precioius hens. All our hens were killed during the day so please don't say that we were careless about shutting them in at night. Fox came in our garden when we were in it. They saw us, they were bold.

Please read what I said above. And I prefer the more realistic 'kill' to the euphemistic 'slaughter'.

Sadly, we're bound by law in UK, we're not allowed to kill most of the meat we eat.

I suspect that that couldn't be classed as pioisoning but it certainly would work. big ones would be quicker.

Mary

too. Sense of humour bypass today, Mary...?!

In article , Mary Fisher writes

Would you be able to take out Foxey with a legally rated air rifle?....

The poor thing would have to suffer. As they do when dying 'naturally'.

I'm off to bed, in pain and too hot and tired and, unusually, fed up. If I don't come back it's been nice knowing (some of) you.

Mary

Mary

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How close are you allowed to stand?

In message , Andrew Mawson writes

Umm... I wouldn't have thought the reward worth the effort. The holes here are only where you might expect to find nuts. There is plenty more lawn, untouched by Foxes but regularly searched by Starlings.

regards

Well I like foxes too, but that doesn't stop me wishing that someone would get a pack of dogs and thin them down a bit now and again.

Of course. Why not?

There's a f*ck of a lot of it in every car battery..

And a fair bit in every car wheel..once its balanced..