Fox Deterent

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  1. Slinky

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    I,m looking for something to deter a fox any Ideas?
     
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    Pepper dust, but unfortunately you do have to replenish it regularly. There is a product called Lion's Roar which are pellets made from lions dung - they say if you put the scent of a larger animal around the place it deters those smaller..........not sure that it works. Think you might need the real thing.........lion's dung that is!
     
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    Slinky you could try something called Renardine.
     
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    Dai. No you can't. It's been banned for ages. Try to keep, up although I do appreciate your advancing years:D:D
    If you "google" it you'll find out it was damaging sheep:confused: A subject close to your heart:D
    I wanted to use it for rabbits but it's a no-go.:)
     
  6. cajary

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    Slinky, there are a variety of "Sonic Deterrents" available. Maybe you could try one of those?:)
     
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    They can be kind of annoying if your neighbors have dogs or cats as they can hear them too we had one fitted and the neighbors dog just moaned whined and barked non stop for a week until we turned it off:mad:
     
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    Yes Patience They are only boisterous this time of the year as they have Cubs,try Feeding instead of fighting them :)
     
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    I'm not going to say this will work 100% but we used to get a lot of foxes drinking from our ponds in the night.
    (We have an intruder alarm that sounds a bleep in our bedroom if anyone or anything aproaches the house front or back, that's how we knew they were there)

    This used to go off all the time.
    With the Foxes but mostly with the cats and then the heron used to set it off yearly morning.

    I got one of those water shooters to cover the pond area to save the fish from the heron and a sonic deterer to get rid of the cats.
    Since then we have had nothing in our garden.
    Apart from the smaller birds

    No nights up no fish gone and no cats.:thumb:

    We have a dog but she is 13 and deaf.
    Are close neighbours don't have any pets.
     
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