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How to Get Rid of Foxes in Your Yard (Without Making It Worse)
Foxes come for food and shelter. Remove both and they move on. What actually deters a fox, what wastes money, and why culling backfires.
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garden
Almost every fox 'problem' in a garden traces back to one of three things: accessible food, accessible shelter, or an unsecured pet. Change those and the fox reallocates its night elsewhere, because a territory is a budget and your garden has to earn its place in it.
These articles are the practical end of the site: build specifications that actually stop a fox, deterrents rated honestly, and the reason removing the resident animal makes no difference at all.
What these articles will let you do
- Work through a garden problem in the order that actually resolves it
- Build a chicken run a fox cannot get into
- Avoid the timing mistake that seals cubs underground
4 articles on garden
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How to Keep Foxes Away From Chickens: What Actually Works
Foxes get into chicken runs through gaps, under wire and over low fences. The build spec that stops them, and why chicken wire is not enough.
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Do Foxes Eat Dog Food? Yes — and Why You Shouldn't Put It Out
Foxes readily eat dog food, and that is the problem. What deliberate feeding does to fox behaviour, disease and survival, and what to do instead.
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What Do Foxes Smell Like? The Musk, and Where It Comes From
Fox scent is sharp, musky and skunk-adjacent — produced by scent glands and marking urine. How to recognise it and how to get it out of a dog's coat.
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Garden: common questions
- How do I get rid of foxes in my garden?
- Remove the food first — secure bins, stop feeding, feed pets indoors — then block access under sheds and decking outside cub season. Removing the animal itself does not work.
- What smell do foxes hate?
- None reliably. Approved repellents disrupt scent marking briefly and wash off; chilli powder, human hair and lion dung do nothing.
- When can I block a den under my shed?
- From August to January. Blocking between March and July risks sealing cubs underground.
Related topics
urban foxes
How foxes live in cities: smaller territories, higher densities, above-ground dens, and living alongside them.
behaviour
How foxes actually behave: hunting, territory, social structure, daily rhythms and the reasons behind each.
diet
What foxes really eat, season by season: rodents, worms, fruit, carrion — and the things they should never be given.
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