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Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 09 6:15 am Post subject: Calling urban foxes

I'm fairly good at simulating a wounded rabbit squeak to attract foxes - they think there's an easy meal going and come in nicely, often. But I'm increasingly being asked to deal with urban foxes, whose hunting instincts are long buried in the nature of an opportunist and scavenger.

As far as I know, their main diet is discarded kebabs and dead pigeons, whose sounds I am unable to simulate. Contrary to what is often asked here, does anyone know of a good fox attractant?

marigold

Joined: 02 Sep 2005
Posts: 12458
Location: West Sussex

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 09 6:56 am Post subject:
Pile of chicken bones on the lawn - fox usually visits at dusk. They make useful waste disposal units, but would be easy to pick off from my bedroom window.

Tavascarow

Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 09 7:13 am Post subject:
Mimic the sound of a Saturday night drunk & they are sure to follow.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Aug 23, 09 7:39 am Post subject:
It's not unusual to hear people calling them when they feed them in the way people call cats and dogs. You could try that and banging a metal bowl etc or bating an area with pet food for a day or two.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 9:10 am Post subject:
I've spoken to farmers living here out in the sticks and they've had what are presumably released urban foxes follow them right up to their doorstep in response to a clanked metal bucket. Clanging a dustbin might do the trick.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45670
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 9:16 am Post subject:
Discarded fried chicken round here (central London), the rats seem to like them, and the puke too.

vegplot

Joined: 19 Apr 2007
Posts: 21301
Location: Bethesda, Gwynedd

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 9:26 am Post subject:

marigold wrote:

Pile of chicken bones on the lawn - fox usually visits at dusk. They make useful waste disposal units, but would be easy to pick off from my bedroom window.

Now there's an invitation...

cab

Joined: 01 Nov 2004
Posts: 32429

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 9:39 am Post subject:
String. The little sods can't seem to get enough of it. Can't explain it other than that they seem to like playing with it. So I often have to tie things up two or three times...

king rat

Joined: 29 Nov 2007
Posts: 79

Posted: Thu Oct 08, 09 9:54 am Post subject:
Pierce several holes in a tin of tuna, tip just a little of the oil onto the ground and bury the tin just under the soil. If you are able to drive a metal rod through it to peg it down prior to covering it, it keeps the fox interested in one spot long enough to shoot it. It also has the advantage of being able to manufacture it into a safe shot as you can entice the fox to the ideal spot.

Iggle Piggle

Joined: 24 Jan 2009
Posts: 55
Location: Edinburgh

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 09 9:17 pm Post subject:
Why are foxes being shot

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Sat Oct 10, 09 9:22 pm Post subject:

Iggle Piggle wrote:

Why are foxes being shot

Because they are vermin? Because blokes on horseback with dogs aren't allowed to hunt them anymore? Because they eat peoples chickens? Lots of reasons to shoot foxes.

Treacodactyl
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 09 7:06 am Post subject:

Bebo wrote:

Iggle Piggle wrote:

Why are foxes being shot

Because they are vermin? Because blokes on horseback with dogs aren't allowed to hunt them anymore? Because they eat peoples chickens? Lots of reasons to shoot foxes.

And they often cover places in faeces which carry diseases, can dig up large areas of the garden doing damage etc, etc.

As the urban foxes round here are virtually domesticated I don't have much problem with the idea of culling them.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 09 9:27 am Post subject:
This section is entitled 'Shooting and trapping for the Pot' whose going to eat the first one then ?

Bebo

Joined: 21 May 2007
Posts: 12590
Location: East Sussex

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 09 9:39 am Post subject:

bodger wrote:

This section is entitled 'Shooting and trapping for the Pot' whose going to eat the first one then ?

You first, you can let the rest of us know what it's like.

Bodger

Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

Posted: Sun Oct 11, 09 9:53 am Post subject:
After you dear. I insist.

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