It would appear that we have a problem with a couple of Vulpes vulpes who've taken up residence in the scrub behind our garden shed. I want to know what can be done to discourage them from living there.
Right at the back of our garden, the shape of our plot goes to a point rather than a line. We've got a shed down there, so there's an almost inaccessible triangle of weeds and tree stumps where nobody ever goes. According to our neighbours, there's a fox-hole down there.
Half of me says, "so what?". The poor little buggers have got to live somewhere. The problem is that they seem to use our garden as the local dogging site and some nights you can't sleep for the noise of shagging foxes. Added to this, we woke up on Sunday morning to see a very old, very knackered looking fox asleep in the middle of the garden. I thought it was dead, but when we opened the door, he limped off with a broken leg. Maybe he'd been half rogered to death.
The cat's clearly none too chuffed at being bullied out of his own garden by a bunch of randy, mangy carrion-eaters. I suppose we ought to do something to try and get rid of them, but short of acquiring a rifle and taking pot shots through the window, what can be done in the way of non-lethal remedies?
