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Little bastard keeps setting off my perimeter lights
- Thread starter FaffEra
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I thought you didn't want it setting your lights off? Feeding seems like the exact wrong thing to do.
If your goal is to get it to stop setting off your lights, you should not feed it salami.
On-top of this, I've heard some sad stories from people who fed animals. They'll come back for the delicious human food and if you keep doing it, may even become reliant on it and might even starve itself waiting for you to feed it. There's a reason wildlife places tell you not to feed the animals. This isn't me joking, there's a reason wildlife places often kill wild animals that become reliant on human food. They begin seeking more of it out and may even attack other humans for it, or become unable to survive on their own by becoming complacent or no longer hunting the food they're supposed to be.
On-top of this, I've heard some sad stories from people who fed animals. They'll come back for the delicious human food and if you keep doing it, may even become reliant on it and might even starve itself waiting for you to feed it. There's a reason wildlife places tell you not to feed the animals. This isn't me joking, there's a reason wildlife places often kill wild animals that become reliant on human food. They begin seeking more of it out and may even attack other humans for it, or become unable to survive on their own by becoming complacent or no longer hunting the food they're supposed to be.
kindly and politely tell it that it's being a nuisance and how you'd like it to go bother someone else. It'll understand.
Either put out a humane trap or hire a wildlife removal expert to take care of it, because if its den is within range of your place you're pretty much guaranteed to have a visitor as long as there is food in the vicinity.
Oh with my vision I thought it was a cat. Thanks for letting me know.
Pretty clearly a fox and no, no you should not feed it. Either way, it may still continue setting off your light but at least it won't become reliant on you or other humans for food.
I won't say feeding it is a terrible idea, they seem to be somewhat common in English cities and some people treat them like we'd treat a stray cat, but I don't really know your situation. If the animal isn't going to always be well fed or if you don't want it coming around more often it's probably best to not feed it. Really unless it's a fox born around people and semi-friendly I'd leave it alone. You don't see tons of wild animals that become friendly in adulthood if they didn't have human contact when they were younger. I can't say how that fox would turn out but if you're not going to take responsibility for it I'd leave it alone.
They're solar powered and drilled + glued into the garden posts. In hindsight not the best idea
Get one of those little motion detecting things that emits a high pitched noise that they dont like.
Poll results are in
I'm legally blind. So it just kinda looks like a white thing with eyes.
Only problem I have with foxes around is the death screams of rabbits in the night.
On the plus side, our rabbit numbers are under control now.
