That's more of a question than a statement.
Just after Mr B and F got back from holiday, F came down early one morning and started sounding off about 'the fox'. The occasional vist was OK she said, but camping in the back yard was completely out of the question.
I'd been watching the fox out of my window in the back of the garage. 'The fox' was sitting upright in the middle of the lawn and started scratching its ears, looking for all the world like a sleepy camper just coming out of a tent and having a good stretch and a lazy, wake-up, scratch.
'The fox' has been visiting several times a day. It crunches up cardboard cat biscuits which the crows have left behind, it steals slices of bread left out for the birds, it just cruises through on the off-chance....
It's her own fault. If they didn't feed crows....
They don't even know if it's 'him' or her'. Mr B googled that and announced they look the same but for one thing, and no one has had a good look at it running away yet.
We've got big high fences, but that doesn't deter foxes. It doesn't deter me. So how do they go about repelling foxes without making our backyard a no-go zone for cats and humans?
(Since I dictated this - and F has been very slow on the publication side lately, - the fox seems to have become yet another integral part of the wild-life balance in the backyard. My humans put out all the food scraps they don't want to compost at night now, and the fox clears them all away. Their argument - if I was listening to it correctly - is that it stops the bins from getting smelly with rotting food scraps. I think they are just a completely soft touch.)
Just after Mr B and F got back from holiday, F came down early one morning and started sounding off about 'the fox'. The occasional vist was OK she said, but camping in the back yard was completely out of the question.
I'd been watching the fox out of my window in the back of the garage. 'The fox' was sitting upright in the middle of the lawn and started scratching its ears, looking for all the world like a sleepy camper just coming out of a tent and having a good stretch and a lazy, wake-up, scratch.
'The fox' has been visiting several times a day. It crunches up cardboard cat biscuits which the crows have left behind, it steals slices of bread left out for the birds, it just cruises through on the off-chance....
It's her own fault. If they didn't feed crows....
They don't even know if it's 'him' or her'. Mr B googled that and announced they look the same but for one thing, and no one has had a good look at it running away yet.
We've got big high fences, but that doesn't deter foxes. It doesn't deter me. So how do they go about repelling foxes without making our backyard a no-go zone for cats and humans?
(Since I dictated this - and F has been very slow on the publication side lately, - the fox seems to have become yet another integral part of the wild-life balance in the backyard. My humans put out all the food scraps they don't want to compost at night now, and the fox clears them all away. Their argument - if I was listening to it correctly - is that it stops the bins from getting smelly with rotting food scraps. I think they are just a completely soft touch.)
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