Foxes in Garden - who is responsible

12 years later and people are still clutching their pearls about marauding disease-ridden foxes. Jesus wept.

It will continue. There will always be a ready supply of ignorant people.

I've two cats, also have foxes that visit @night. They don't seem to bother each other

Can't speak for your foxes but we have two cats and a resident fox family, they timeshare it seem's with the fox around between 3-5am and occasionally early in the evening. One cat has chased the fox on occasion but otherwise they co-exist, dog family after all I guess.

My main issue with the foxes are they piss and shite everywhere, they are not too bad with digging but can make a mess on occasion. I'd prefer to be rid of them but I found grey squirrels and rats to be a much greater pest. As for them catching rats maybe in the country but we have a rat just moved in a while back and I have seen the fox wander past its burrow (or is the term rat hole ha) no interest off in search of next doors pizza or whatever.

Foxes can carry some nasty parasites but I mean so can your cat or dog, you probably have more chance of picking something up rolling around the local park/pitch than your garden tbf.

Now in the country if I had hens etc I would be out lamping the feckers, they can do some serious damage there, urban foxes like urban pigeons, kernt neighbours etc just something you have get along with I think.

I hope your cars are indoor cats as outdoor cats do the same

If you don't want foxes in your garden you have two choices. Eradicate them or buy/borrow an electric fence. Run a wire about a foot over the ground and connect the fence to it. Guaranteed 100% success rate using both methods.

We used to live in a spot that had a bit of antisocial stuff going on, mixture of moped gangs, lads meeting lads in the bushes and random junkies, the house was isolated large garden backed on to common ground, woods scrub etc. Installed cctv all around the house, and caught a few lads checking the place out... had police come out, the guy was like ahhh they would love this place. You see they will come over that fence at the back, break in the patio doors and back out again no-one to see them, they don't care about cameras will cover their faces etc 😐️

So I invested in some fishing line and blank cartridges with triggers basically a gamekeeper setup, being the lazy kernt that I am I never got around to installing them and witnessing the fun and games before we moved house...my point being could be an alternative to your electric fence probably not recommended in an urban area though!