A Fox Is Digging Up Mt Tomatoes.

[FWI]

Pangea,

Put a bell on your plant and/or the line to your hook wait for him to call you and put a .223 in the boiler room should do the trick nicely and from a safe distance. Best of Luck

[CypressTexas]

Charity starts at home

We have red foxes and the day they get so hungry that they go vegetarian I'll gladly give them a handout. Can't imagine that they'd be interested in your tomatoes---sure it isn't something else? We had neighbors move in and start to kill all the copperheads, cottonmouths and rattlers and now the place is overrun with rats, mice and gophers. Easy solution: Put a chicken wire fence around your tomatoes!

[Pangea]

We have red foxes and the day they get so hungry that they go vegetarian I'll gladly give them a handout. Can't imagine that they'd be interested in your tomatoes---sure it isn't something else? We had neighbors move in and start to kill all the copperheads, cottonmouths and rattlers and now the place is overrun with rats, mice and gophers. Easy solution: Put a chicken wire fence around your tomatoes!

It's the fertilizer under the plants that they are after.

[vfrpilot]

I don't know if this works on a fox but it works wonders on Raccons. Put fly bait and coke in a pan and the racoons are lucky to make it 5 ft from the pan. Last yr I put it out by the sweet corn and I got 32 coons in about 4 wks. And the corn was great. Maybe try to put the fly bait and coke over some meat or something. Good luck. P.S fly bait is available at stores like Farm & Fleet or TSC.

[CypressTexas]

True Coon Story

Up until recently I had a nice little New Braunfels horizontal smoker. Underneath the smoking chamber there was a hole at one end for the grease to drip out and into an aluminum can held in place with a wire clip. So one day I decided to make some ribs with my infamous five alarm cayenne rub. Everyone had a great time and drank my beer cooler dry, and I left the smoker out overnight under the "wing" of my metal outbuilding. Seems sometime that night Mr. Coon caught a whiff of the ribs and went over to the smoker, poked around and pulled the beer can full of grease off the clip and drank it dry. I know so because he left the empty on the concrete next to the smoker. It appeared that within the next few minutes the combo of grease and cayenne lit a blaze of glory through Mr. Coon's digestive system because there was a blow out of nuclear proportions all over the concrete. You can still see where he drug his keester all over the concrete trying to put out the fire on his behind. Unfortunately it had been pretty dry around here so there was no liquid available to put out the flames. He never came close to my smoker after that. I'll bet it also works with foxes.

[urch55]

Foxes No Problem

Here in Florida Foxes would be like a fly compared to gators.

Look at what some people have to contend with. A 28 foot gator and yes that is a Stag in it's month.
I wounder how many pets have come up missing.?? This lake is surrounded with houses. Lake is located between Winter Haven and Lakland Florida..

[Les Hall]

I fully expect to be flamed to death here but I couldn't read through all these disgusting, cruel 'tips' without saying something.

Pest control is one thing but vile, painful, torture goes beyond the pail.

[urch55]

Pest control is one thing but vile, painful, torture goes beyond the pail.

Amen. Les No flamming here.

[nctox]

I have to agree with Les Hall. Flame on if you will, but cruelty is cruelty. I guess everyone has a different idea of what constitutes cruelty. I am a hunter. I take a couple of deer each season, and enjoy the venison. I shoot a turkey rarely, but enjoy the challenge of the hunt. I've killed and eaten hundreds of squirrels, rabbits,quail, and doves, but I have never intentionally caused unneccesary suffering of any animal, and hope never to do so. A quick .22 LR to the head is a good way to get rid of varmints like raccoons and the like. Sometimes poison can be effective if used in a controlled way, but too often the neighbor's dog becomes the unintended victim.
I laughed at the Texas raccoon story about the hot pepper in the BBQ sauce. There's a 'coon around here I would like to do that to, but some of the methods put forth in this thread seem a bit extreme.
Just my 2 cents worth............

[Krunch]

I don't like the idea of poisoning them or fish hooks, what if it's your neighbor's dog?

What you want is a Victor (or whatever) 1.5 leghold trap.

Once you catch him, then you can decide whether to dust him.

About $7 ... and you can use it over and over.

They also make "softcatch" versions that won't hurt the neighbor's dog if you accidentally catch him.



Snares also work nicely...and domestic dogs won't kill themselves struggling in a snare (unlike wild animals).

[Hotfoot]

Up until recently I had a nice little New Braunfels horizontal smoker. Underneath the smoking chamber there was a hole at one end for the grease to drip out and into an aluminum can held in place with a wire clip. So one day I decided to make some ribs with my infamous five alarm cayenne rub. Everyone had a great time and drank my beer cooler dry, and I left the smoker out overnight under the "wing" of my metal outbuilding. Seems sometime that night Mr. Coon caught a whiff of the ribs and went over to the smoker, poked around and pulled the beer can full of grease off the clip and drank it dry. I know so because he left the empty on the concrete next to the smoker. It appeared that within the next few minutes the combo of grease and cayenne lit a blaze of glory through Mr. Coon's digestive system because there was a blow out of nuclear proportions all over the concrete. You can still see where he drug his keester all over the concrete trying to put out the fire on his behind. Unfortunately it had been pretty dry around here so there was no liquid available to put out the flames. He never came close to my smoker after that. I'll bet it also works with foxes.

That's GREAT, Cypress!! 'sounds like another episode of Caddy Shack! Ireally enjoyed this one!

[CypressTexas]

5 years later

Photo of the subject smoker (on the left with the Coors can barely visible underneath) and the "skid marks" that remain to this date (5 years later). There were paw prints running parallel on each side of the "skid marks" that my high pressure water unit lifted but the main "skid marks" are there to stay.

PS--We love Canyon Lake; if I didn't have to make a living we'd be neighbors!

[usmcpop]

Chased a couple of young coon pups out of the house the other night. Came in via the cat door. Probably offspring of the ones that annoyed us a couple years ago. I guess the mama booked quickly. I grabbed a bottle of 409 cleaner and spritzed a bit in their direction and finally chased them out the door. My wife has an axe handle by the bed for the next time they come in.

We also have a lot of deer that wreak havock on anything planted. But we're in the suburbs so there's not a lot that can be done.

[hideandseek]

tannerite works well too!