Been searching the web trying to find the most efficacious advice for dealing with vulpes vulpes. Have ordered myself some natty little plastic spikes which are meant to deter them from climbing over fences and also, believe it or not, a catapult - the former someone else's idea, the latter mine! They might still wake me with their shrieking and continue to defile my garden but soon, very soon, I'll catch one of the b*st*rds napping and THWACK! If you're a bleeding heart don't worry too much - I only intend to fire earth pellets at them just to let them know who's boss and to get them to move on. I don't actually want to hurt them - but then again .... (nope, only joking!).Anyway, as the fence where I intend to fix said spikes is technically my neighbour's, I called round to ask her permission to do so. And guess what? Yep, she's a fox feeder, and she fed me all the usual claptrap - they've been here longer than us, feeding them doesn't encourage them (I know, if I'd been sitting down I'd have fallen off my seat too!), they always use the same trails, they've become better behaved over the past couple of days, yadda, yadda, yadda. To her great credit, however, once I'd explained my full tale of woe she agreed to let me fix the spikes. Let's hope they arrive pronto and I can get them fixed before she changes her mind....
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