richie 1 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Let's look at your legal options. 1. You cannot poison a fox. 2. You cannot use a firearm in a built up area. 3. You cannot use your dog to catch the fox. 4. You cannot use Renardine to attempt to repel the fox. 5. DEFRA's Snaring Code Of Practice says "Snares must not be set on or near public footpaths, rights of way, near housing and areas regularly used for exercising domestic animals to avoid capturing pets." 6. You can live trap the animal, but then you have to dispatch it on site. This causes problems with number 2. Did I miss anything? Your options are limited. What steps has your neighbour taken to keep the fox out of the garden and away from the rabbits? If there is nothing for it to come back for then it probably won't and revenge seems a little odd. Your spot on, but i wondered how that pest control chap off that TV program manage to shoot two foxes at night with a night sight in that's chaps built up garden ???? i was going to mention that.... hes from county pest control, ive spoke to him a few times on the phone a few years back. i called him to pick his brains on fox control after seeing him in a news paper add surrounded by 25 or so dead fox`s laying around him. i remember in the programme on tv, he baited up a place in the middle of the garden & waited for the two fox`s to appear, then one after the other took them down with a rimmy from the upstaire bedroom window. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest ragumup Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Let's look at your legal options. 1. You cannot poison a fox. 2. You cannot use a firearm in a built up area. 3. You cannot use your dog to catch the fox. 4. You cannot use Renardine to attempt to repel the fox. 5. DEFRA's Snaring Code Of Practice says "Snares must not be set on or near public footpaths, rights of way, near housing and areas regularly used for exercising domestic animals to avoid capturing pets." 6. You can live trap the animal, but then you have to dispatch it on site. This causes problems with number 2. Did I miss anything? Your options are limited. What steps has your neighbour taken to keep the fox out of the garden and away from the rabbits? If there is nothing for it to come back for then it probably won't and revenge seems a little odd. Your spot on, but i wondered how that pest control chap off that TV program manage to shoot two foxes at night with a night sight in that's chaps built up garden ???? i was going to mention that.... hes from county pest control, ive spoke to him a few times on the phone a few years back. i called him to pick his brains on fox control after seeing him in a news paper add surrounded by 25 or so dead fox`s laying around him. i remember in the programme on tv, he baited up a place in the middle of the garden & waited for the two fox`s to appear, then one after the other took them down with a rimmy from the upstaire bedroom window. Thats right it was at the end of "meet the fox" program Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gsi2000stokie 5 Posted March 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Let's look at your legal options. 1. You cannot poison a fox. 2. You cannot use a firearm in a built up area. 3. You cannot use your dog to catch the fox. 4. You cannot use Renardine to attempt to repel the fox. 5. DEFRA's Snaring Code Of Practice says "Snares must not be set on or near public footpaths, rights of way, near housing and areas regularly used for exercising domestic animals to avoid capturing pets." 6. You can live trap the animal, but then you have to dispatch it on site. This causes problems with number 2. Did I miss anything? Your options are limited. What steps has your neighbour taken to keep the fox out of the garden and away from the rabbits? If there is nothing for it to come back for then it probably won't and revenge seems a little odd. Your spot on, but i wondered how that pest control chap off that TV program manage to shoot two foxes at night with a night sight in that's chaps built up garden ???? i was going to mention that.... hes from county pest control, ive spoke to him a few times on the phone a few years back. i called him to pick his brains on fox control after seeing him in a news paper add surrounded by 25 or so dead fox`s laying around him. i remember in the programme on tv, he baited up a place in the middle of the garden & waited for the two fox`s to appear, then one after the other took them down with a rimmy from the upstaire bedroom window. im not 100% sure but i think theres a clip on youtube of it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest JohnGalway Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 If anyone looked on the link I posted "Bruce", that's the Meet the Foxes clips. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
harddigging 42 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 set your live trap and get one of your mates to come down and stun it with one of them electric pistol things that would do the job with a big enough cartridge in it if that fails drop it down a earth just as i happen to be passing Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ChrisJones 7,975 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 That doesn't sound legal... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kat 3 Posted March 1, 2008 Report Share Posted March 1, 2008 Until the fox is 'disposed of' i'd be inclined to bring my bird in and box it up over night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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