Are others kept awake at night by what seems to be fighting noises from what I assume to be foxes. I haven't actually seen them - I'm only assuming. Is this possible? Its sometimes disturbing.
Gerry Tan ● 4082d20 Comments
Ouch. I'm definitely not going to have sex with a fox then.
Nick Goodliffe ● 4078d
Yes I have been often woken as it's their mating season. They also sometimes make an estraordinary clicking noise.
Sarah Michie ● 4080d
Nigel, the cuddlers might suggest some large reservations for the native foxes.
Graham Weeks ● 4080d
If all of us would take just an extra 30 seconds and spray the bags with a mixture of bleach and water - cost less than 1p, foxes wouldn't touch the bags. Not sure what they would eat then though, so maybe not a good idea.
Charles Campbell ● 4080d
They must have ruddy long memories as this area has been built on for over 150 years! :-)Ancestral lands, thank God this isn't on the Chiswick forum as someone would by now be setting up a support group and arranging a 'cuddle a fox' event along with starting an investigation into the diaspora of foxes in the 19th century.
Nigel Brooks ● 4080d
Let's not forget before there were houses there it was probably quite rural. The foxes are returning to their ancestral lands.
Jason Hallsworth ● 4080d
Not exactly a fox cuddler but it does strike me that any of the perceived "bad habits" are purely by instinct and nature whereas those of us humans are conscious decisions and a combination of indifference, laziness and deliberate anti-social behaviour.
Philip Coe ● 4081d
Immediate neighbours are diligent in only putting out bags early on collection day, so it must be further afield.
Nigel Brooks ● 4081d
Have you asked the neighbours to desist?
Graham Weeks ● 4082d
Definitely not a 'cuddler' as they are a bloody nuisance and the 'droppings' stink like hell.However I can do nothing about neighbours putting out their food waste which attracts them to dine al fresco in my garden.
Nigel Brooks ● 4082d
We have been here before. I remember an altercation over vermin. People divide between the fox cuddlers and the exterminators. BTW last week I photographed a fox on the roof of a neighbour's shed.
There have always been foxes locally, they have been become urbanised by our inability to store our excess of food waste. This says far more about us and our profligacy than it does about the foxes.If we stored the waste properly the foxes would move on.
Vermin? I wonder what they think about us humans.
Philip Coe ● 4082d
It doesn't help when people put food waste out on the street the night before a collection
Jim McCauley ● 4082d
They're a nuisance when they tear the refuse bags and rubbish is spread over drives and pavements. I think Council should try to cull them. They are vermin after all.
Gerry Tan ● 4082d
I few weekends back we had 2 foxes procreating on our garden first thing in the morning! Put me off my porridge :-)I often see them during the day exploring the gardens; not surprising as our house backs on to shrubby fields with the river fairly close.
John Walker ● 4082d
Yes, that would be painful I'd imagine.
You'd cry and howl as well if your genitals were clamped as happens to male foxes during mating. :-)
We hear them almost every night, that together with the mess they make by tearing open rubbish sacks makes me wonder whether the council shouldn't try to remove them.
Very common in Hanwell. A couple of nights ago I was woken by two young foxes fighting over food outside my garden.But it's the crying/howling during mating which sounds like screaming that is worse.
John Bodman ● 4082d