Garden used as an animal toilet......help

[northepaul]

Just having you around and working in the garden should keep a lot of the critturs away, I would think.

No it doesnt - they 'go' at night!!

[stella]

yep we get up every morning to piles of the stuff everywhere and have seen a huge fox in the garden doing his bit. The foxes around here dont seem at all worried by humans and will stare you down if you look at them, and this is London, scary:0

[lizzylemon]

I was going to suggest Jayes around the boundry or where they focus their toliet. It will neutralise the smell and disinfect the ground. I have a old washing up bottle full of water by the back door as one of the neigbours cats has taken an interest in our rabbits & sprays the back door & waterbut (just to add insult to injury) so it gets a big squirt whenever i see it. Totally harmless, very satisfying and free

[lizzylemon]

Contact your local council about the fox. I think a lot of city councils have a pest control department & urban foxes fall into that catagory. A lot of them are caught and relocated to the country. I wouldn't advise getting to close to it - Urban foxes are quite well known for being humanised and could give a nasty bit if they feel cornered/threatened. They wont run like their country cousins.

[Glutton4...]

I would suggest getting some plastic mesh fencing, and put up a perimeter fence, but leave it slightly loose. Then Foxes and Cats won't climb it, as it feels unsafe. They may, however, dig under it, so you may have to be quite inventive, and peg it down.

[Glutton4...]

Contact your local council about the fox. I think a lot of city councils have a pest control department & urban foxes fall into that catagory. A lot of them are caught and relocated to the country. I wouldn't advise getting to close to it - Urban foxes are quite well known for being humanised and could give a nasty bit if they feel cornered/threatened. They wont run like their country cousins.

That is a really cruel thing to do. The urban Fox has no idea how to survive in the countryside. It's the equivalent of abandoning a city gent in the bl**dy jungle!

[lizzylemon]

That is a really cruel thing to do. The urban Fox has no idea how to survive in the countryside. It's the equivalent of abandoning a city gent in the bl**dy jungle!

Yes I suppose it is - hadn't thought of it like that. No an easy problem to solve.

[stella]

Urban foxes are really a pest round here, I know its because there is so much food left around but the other day a friend saw one sitting in the road as she was walking her children to school and as I said they are not bothered by people at all.

[Hilary B]

Once you have got things a bit cleared, there is a product called Silent Roar (there are other brands) which is made from lion poo, treated to make it inoffensive to humans and harmless in the vegetable patch. Most animals will be deterred because they will think a bigger more dangerous animal (a lion) is using the patch.