I apologize ahead-but considering my upbringing, where I prefer to live and the way I was taught to deal with wild animals, unless it is a rabid animal, or a threat I don’t have any ideas for a fox deterrent that involves killing by any means-obviously, rabid animals need to be put down. I live in the animals’ dining room, not the other way around. The house we had in the city was on a 7 mile long greenbelt and park along a creek, too, so critters were always around there-I don’t have any real critters in the city experience.
Properties are fenced out here because of livestock, but if Husky girl was balking and getting out, my solution to that is her harness and a long retractable leash-gives plenty of freedom but stops short of letting her escape. I solve the problem of critters here by not having any food other than birdseed near the house-I feed the deer outside the fence by the river. You could shoot or poison every fox or raccoon within 50 miles, but if your neighbors feed their pets outside, it will tempt creatures to come into the yard, no matter what you do.
A city is not an animal-friendly place like the country, but I’ve lived in 2 burbs in the past and all the homes had fences in those neighborhoods-not pretty, maybe, but safe for kids and pets.
Foxes are not really pests here, but I’m guessing we don’t have as many of them as in your area.
we have no food outside, i doubt anyone else does, i just think that they were here first. The culdesac upon which we live was a farm for years before they built our houses. I do not want to kill it, i just wish there was a way to keep it out of our yard. We do not live in a city, it is a wooded suburbia. there is a preserved area down at the creek that cannot be touched by developers and it’s where he and his den are, i am sure. but they love to go catting around the dang neighborhood wreaking havoc among the dog population.