Foxes Roaming Around the Suburbs

RandolphEsq

They really are a pest. I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.
I have heard stories of house pets being eaten by foxes. Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these foxes?

baztard

I had foxes in my garden and in the surrounding neighbours gardens in Dundrum. They didn't appear to cause any harm to anyone. Anyone I knew actually enjoyed having them about. If your having problems with them in your garden, I'd suggest strengthing your fence etc to keep them out. Theres no need to go exterminating them though!

Gaspode

BrightEyes wrote: »

They really are a pest. I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.
I have heard stories of house pets being eaten by foxes. Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these foxes?

Are you serious?

Tabnabs

BrightEyes wrote: »

I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.

What??

Are you sure it's a dog you have...

arse..biscuits

BrightEyes wrote: »

They really are a pest. I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.
I have heard stories of house pets being eaten by foxes. Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these foxes?

Why are they a pest? They are an amazing creature. Foxes won't go anywhere near your dog.

Jay D

oh dear :rolleyes:

stovelid

LOL. Have you seen a fox up close? I doubt they would even try and fight a dog, or even a large cat, let alone eat them.

Jet Black

I seen one walk across the Finglas road just before lidl at 4 in the morning. I was about 10 feet away from it and it did not even look. First time I seen one that was not flattened on the road. I never heard of them eating pet though.

Nerin

BrightEyes wrote: »

They really are a pest. I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.
I have heard stories of house pets being eaten by foxes. Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these foxes?

What stories op?
The foxes around here come into our garden alot,the vixen distracts our dog,and the dog fox eats his dinner. This is usually how they act.

humberklog

IS This your dog?

ronbyrne2005

I sometimes cycle by St Annes park at night and see several foxes most time along coast road , they chase the birds on bull island and raid the bins along the coastal walking path. Harmless feckers unless you have a rabbit or something. One night a fox and badger came out of the park at clontarf at same time.

Wishbone Ash

City foxes are not near as common now as they were years ago due to the introduction of wheelie bins.

chris d

foxes rule

Tabnabs

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

City foxes are not near as common now as they were years ago due to the introduction of wheelie bins.

I have always wondered about that one, I know the theory behind it, but where do people come up with the facts to back it up? Is there some sort of Irish Times /TNS mrbi poll for the foxes?

Zillah

BrightEyes wrote: »

They really are a pest. I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.
I have heard stories of house pets being eaten by foxes. Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these foxes?

You want to exterminate foxes because you have an irrational fear they'll attack your dog?

Wow.

cork1

BrightEyes wrote: »

They really are a pest. I have a dog in the house but I could almost not allow her into the garden at night for fear of a fox attacking her.
I have heard stories of house pets being eaten by foxes. Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these foxes?

its simple you leave them alone and they will leave you alone and if you try to exterminate them then you deserve what you get!

Wishbone Ash

BrightEyes wrote: »

Is there nothing that can be done to exterminate or move these pets?

There, I've fixed that for you!

Gavin "shels"

There's a family of foxes 3 (I think) who live in Dublin 8, live in Scoil Teresa. Remember walking up my road with a few beverages and 2 fecking foxes on the road.:eek:

MementoMori

I think I saw a fox when I driving along the quay by the IFSC - near the Sean O'Casey bridge last year around 12 at night. Could that have been possible? I didnt think there would be any foxes that central.

Tragedy

I regularly see 5-10 walking home from the nitelink in my area. They be everywhere!

DennisSabre

I've seen foxes just inside the railings beside the Luas stop on St. Stephen's Green and also in Iveagh Gardens just off Harcourt St.

DennisSabre

Nitelink, Luas...... maybe they have free travel passes!

stovelid

Used to see them on Cowper Road in Rathmines all the time.

ronbyrne2005 wrote: »

One night a fox and badger came out of the park at clontarf at same time.

Saw a good program on Badgers - in England - the other night. They seem to co-exist with foxes quite peacefully.

MementoMori

Man seems like they are eveywhere

*I for one welcome our new fox overlords*

amcalester

Once when I was living with the folk I let the dog out the front at about 5 in the AM to do his business but there was a fox in the garden, one look at my little King Charles Spaniel and the fox was gone. So unless your dog looks like a chicken or rabbit I dont think you've much to fear.

I live in London where foxes are classed as a pest, there's roughly 10000 of them in the Greater London Area and there are Fox Exterminators that shoot them. fuc/<ing disgrace.

Zillah

DennisSabre wrote: »

I've seen foxes just inside the railings beside the Luas stop on St. Stephen's Green and also in Iveagh Gardens just off Harcourt St.

Seriously? That's very interesting, I wonder where they came from. Think they actually travelled through several miles of suburbs?

Tragedy

I'd say they have dens in disused/abandoned homes+gardens or in wasteland around commercial areas. There's plenty of both around stephens green.

jdivision

Zillah wrote: »

Seriously? That's very interesting, I wonder where they came from. Think they actually travelled through several miles of suburbs?

There's a family of them that live on a wall near the Clonmel Street entrance to the Iveagh Gardens. They raise a few cubs there last year. They walk the wall into the park and into the bins and so on in the office buildings on the Harcourt St side.

Galvasean

I think the OP may be confusing foxes with wolves... or possibly lions.

trout

I regularly see foxes in Lansdowne Road Dart station, nipping across the tracks at night, especially at the top end of the platforms, near the bridge over the Dodder.

Maybe I'm reading into it ... but they look very scrawny this year.

Michael Collins

Zillah wrote: »

Seriously? That's very interesting, I wonder where they came from. Think they actually travelled through several miles of suburbs?

They probably burrowed in, you know foxes.

Galvasean

Michael Collins wrote: »

They probably burrowed in, you know foxes.

I've never known foxes to make burrows several miles long.

RandolphEsq

Foxes are terrified of people. I will admit though that the 2 stories I heard involved cats.
1-My friend was walking through his estate and saw a fox chase and kill a cat.
2-A neighbour's cat was found in the garden half eaten.

I suppose it could be different for dogs that foxes wouldn't touch them but my dog is a King Charles, not exactly rough dogs

amcalester

BrightEyes wrote: »

Foxes are terrified of people. I will admit though that the 2 stories I heard involved cats.
1-My friend was walking through his estate and saw a fox chase and kill a cat.
2-A neighbour's cat was found in the garden half eaten.

I suppose it could be different for dogs that foxes wouldn't touch them but my dog is a King Charles, not exactly rough dogs

I have a King Charles as well and he chased a fox dont the street 1 day, fox didnt want anything to do with him. Foxes are surprisingly small and will run away from most dogs.

Galvasean

Foxes tend to run away from terriers and they're smaller than king charles.

lightening

BrightEyes wrote: »

I will admit though that the 2 stories I heard involved cats.

I wouldn't be too worried. Ferrel cats are a scourge, they are the biggest destroyer of native Irish rural and urban wildlife. They are also the reason some urban foxes have mange.

I have seen a fox and a cat eat out of the same bowl on one of the numerous occasions I have seen the two animals together. The cat killings sound very urban mythish if you ask me.:) I would sit back and count yourself lucky you get to see native Irish wildlife.

Táck

a taxi driver* told me before he'd seen them in town, city centre, at night time, early morning rooting thru the bins. i presume they come from stephens green area, i just cant envisage foxes on o'connell street



*spoofers usually

Goodshape

I used to see a fox roaming around the bottom of Baggot Street regularly enough.

Lemming

I've come home late at night (Ballinteer, Dublin) and found a fox roaming the estate and wandering in and out of gardens; I'm guessing to raid bins and scavenge. The first sign of another living thing and it'll run for the hills.

It's great to see wildlife I wouldn't otherwise see.

Táck

agreed,

the boss of me

Michael Collins wrote: »

They probably burrowed in, you know foxes.

Not these guys these are modern uber foxes with evil in their minds and modern technology at their disposal...

MySelf56

When I am living in Dundrum they are regular sight. One could easily imagine where they came from, Dublin hills of course. As some body pointed out wheely bins, What really astonishes me there will be guarantee of sighting on bin day. How they know its Bin day. I hardly know what day it is, if some body ask me by waking me up in the middle of night? They are quite shy though I try take picture it ran away.

Now living Nothside I never seen them until two weeks near my home Griffith Avenue. I dont mind those scavengers here and there..

lightening

MySelf56 wrote: »

One could easily imagine where they came from, Dublin hills of course.

I think its the other way round! We are encroaching on their turf! They were around a long time before Dublin started to expand and expand. Luckily they are adapting really well along with the peregrine falcons, kestrels, badgers and many other species in the city.

I live about 6K from the city and see bats, seals, foxes, hawks, faclons, badgers and the odd red squirrel among hundreds of other Dublin wildlife treats.

Wishbone Ash

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

City foxes are not near as common now as they were years ago due to the introduction of wheelie bins.

MySelf56 wrote: »

As some body pointed out wheely bins, What really astonishes me there will be guarantee of sighting on bin day

What I was saying earlier was that they were much more common before the introduction of wheelie bins. They found it easier to access the older type of bin as they were shorter and easier to get into or overturn. It's practical impossible for most animals to gain access to a wheelie bin.

Bin day is irrelevant as foxes would search through bins at the rear of houses where the bin is stored and in daily use. They didn't need to wait for collection time.

macadam

Contact the lads in the shooting section they will sort them out ..lol:D

Táck

i heard years ago if you brought a fox's tail to the garda you got fifty pound

they should renew that with rats

Wishbone Ash

Táck wrote: »

i heard years ago if you brought a fox's tail to the garda you got fifty pound

It was more like £1 or a few shillings (which was reasonable at the time).

When I was a child, a neighbour of ours was a Garda sergeant. I recall my father bringing me into his garage to see about a doxen shot foxes thrown on the floor. I was facinated by them especially as they all had their tongues hanging out. I recall my father saying something about him paying people to shoot them. (I don't know why he had them in his garage though. )

GrahamThomas

Lightening, they are great photos.

As for foxes being spotted in the city centre, I think I heard before that the Grand Canal acts as kind of a wildlife corridor for animals, and most of the locations named in this thread where foxes were spotted are pretty close to the canal, so perhaps thats how they ended up in town? Just a thought!

I live out near Foxrock, and it certainly lives up to it's name . Often see them when I'm walking home from the luas at night.

arse..biscuits

Most of my sightings have been when I'm drunk stumbling around at 4am out in my native Tallaght. I live in the city now and haven't seen any but have been told that one lives under a 40 foot container next to me on Bridgefoot street.

Victor

The reason you see them on bin day is that not everyone is careful with their bins. you are only seeing them because (a) the bins have been disturbed and possibly topped up (b) the bins are in view on the foot path.

DennisSabre wrote: »

I've seen foxes just inside the railings beside the Luas stop on St. Stephen's Green and also in Iveagh Gardens just off Harcourt St.

I spotted a squirrel eating a square of chocolate in Iveagh Gardens one afternoon and mentioned it to the warden. He said there was foxes in the Gardens that regularly commute down to St. Stephens Green to have a feed of duckling.

macadam wrote: »

Contact the lads in the shooting section they will sort them out ..lol:D

Firing a weapon within 10m of a public road is an offence.

arybvtcw0eolkf

Victor wrote: »

Firing a weapon within 10m of a public road is an offence.

Looks like a job for the artillery boys then :pac: