At my bowling club we have a problem with a fox that comes on to the green during the night and pees on it. The urine kills the grass in a 6" wide circle and it's driving us mad. We have tried putting human hair in a small laundry bag for socks, soaking it in some human pee and laying it on the green in the patch where the fox pees, but it just seems to pee on another patch instead.
Can anyone suggest any other non-fatal methods to deter the fox?
These PIR ultrasonic jobbies are meant to be pretty good, if they are practical in your situation is another matter. I guess that depends on how open/enclosed your green is and if there is power available at the right place(s).
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Thus spake Vortex4 ( snipped-for-privacy@harris.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
Thanks - I'll suggest this to our committee.
Shoot the b**** fox but avoid shooting yourself - that'll be non fatal, and while you're at it come and shoot the fox that keeps circling our chicken coop.
AWEM
Have the foxes got a den with cubs within the grounds of the bowling green? I remember watching a program about a humane pest controller who said that foxes with cubs are very neophobic. Namely, they don't like anything new or that changes near their den.
He just used a variety of odd objects (garden gnome, old kettle, a brick etc.) placed near the den and changed every day. This unsettles the foxes and they move away.
Tim
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Don't let it into the bar
Walk around the perimeter towing a piece of string with a rag on the end soaked in Diesel. Naturally ensure this is done after everyone has departed for the day and warn members that it has been done to prevent (Reduce) moans about the smell if noticed. Overnight the odour will dissipate to our noses. Repeat for a few evenings etc. Used successfully on a Golf Course clubhouse garden I used to work at to prevent Foxes entering the area which needed protection against the Fox marking its territory. Careful tracking of the animal may reveal where it habitats the local area, but being an animal that uses known areas to mark it's territory you can only entice it away by leaving small amounts of food (Dog food) further and further away until it breaks free from its normal area and marks elsewhere.
Thus spake Tim Downie ( snipped-for-privacy@obvious.yahoo.co.uk) unto the assembled multitudes:
No. There is a bit of waste ground to one side of the green, but there's no fox den there. It's coming from a little further afield. There are after all plenty of places nearby where a fox could have a den.
As the patch of waste ground is used on a daily basis by our greenkeepers, I would say that this would probably deter a fox from settling there.
Having said that, here at Sussex Uni there is a fox den right in the centre of the campus just a few yards from a very busy walkway. The fox has been photographed on numerous occasions.
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