Foxy Lady | March 18, 2011
Conservative MP Greg Hands is at it again, in his ongoing attempt to have foxes reclassified as vermin so that councils would be able to organise culls. Hands originally asked much the same question in 2006 (and indeed he received much the same answer). At present, there is nothing stopping individual landowners dealing with “problem […]
Foxy Lady | February 12, 2011
Our correspondent Elizabeth Lovegrove reports from Oxford that they had an overnight visitor, the night before last. They came down in the morning and found a young fox comfortably curled up on their sofa (and their two cats having run away from it, looking decidedly underwhelmed). It backed off to hide under a table when […]
Foxy Lady | February 11, 2011
Should you want to discourage foxes from entering your garden, there are many ways of doing so. The Fox Project has a list of many of them (under their “Deterrence” heading). But there are more unusual ways of keeping foxes away from your livestock; it may not be within everyone’s budget, but have you considered […]
Foxy Lady | January 19, 2011
Ears is back! She hadn’t been hanging around by the patio doors in at least a couple of weeks (although she’d been coming by the food area overnight)… possibly because it hadn’t been as cold recently around Fox Towers, possibly because she’d been off getting acquainted with the local males, who knows. Anyway. Yesterday evening […]
Foxy Lady | January 14, 2011
I know, I know, a bit quiet here at Fox Towers lately. The humans are getting back into work, and the foxes… well, they’re definitely still visiting the lawn for their dinner, although I’m not sure we have any in residence just now; they’ve not been leaping out of the bushes as soon as the […]
Foxy Lady | December 18, 2010
With a hat tip to @jamesgraham on Twitter, foxes are now apparently eating too much junk food…
Foxy Lady | December 8, 2010
OK, and people are worried about foxes? In Chicago, they have coyotes… http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/12/08/131876027/60-wild-coyotes-patrol-chicago-and-occasionally-stop-at-convenience-stores
Foxy Lady | December 6, 2010
I mentioned on Twitter on Friday that one of our foxes (PaleTail) had finally come out in daylight so that I could get some decent fox-in-the-snow pictures. I’m just going through the pics now. There are, er, six hundred and twenty-three of them. May take me another day or so, sorry folks 😉 I do […]
Foxy Lady | December 1, 2010
The BBC’s filming last night was cancelled, unfortunately (see their previous request for help) and now they’re looking to reschedule; they’d like to film somewhere in the London area that “looks urban” (which rules out Fox Towers, unfortunately; we have neither tower blocks nor foxes in hoodies) and where the foxes tend to hang around […]
Foxy Lady | November 23, 2010
Hi folks, I’ve been contacted by Katy Elson at the BBC. She’s looking for someone with urban foxes in their back garden (or at least nearby) who might be willing to have them filmed next week (week beginning 29/11/2010) for the Springwatch Christmas Special — in an ideal world you would be fairly near Southampton, […]