would this work against foxes

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last weekend i went to adrain halls and as we walked in there was a most sutnning statue of a fox in prowl pose full size it was so so beatiful that when i am debt free in july i want to treat myself { pricey } to it i instantly fell in love even though at first i went ' c888p theres a real fox ' :lol: :lol: :lol: and i wasnt the only person anyways i want to put this outside the run do you think it will scare of real foxes or not ?? dont ask me why i want to put it there but i do :-)05
 
probably it would need to smell like a real fox before it frightened a fox away...it may only scare your chickens, Karminski!!! :-)09
 
I walked the dog past a house today which had 3 metal cat outlines on the open-plan lawn in front, with shiny green eyes. Trog was totally fooled, ran up to them growling, very excited, and then stopped, very puzzled. Had to have a really good sniff before he realised he's been fooled!
Maybe your fox would work, Karminski, but on the other hand, if it's so beautiful, it might attract them!
 
thats what i was thinking marigold well part of me seems to think it would really work but the other says no :lol: unless as my friend suggested i pee on it so i told him no thats his job he can aim better :-)04 i got told where to go politly i might be able to find a pic on thier site will have a look .http://www.gardensite.co.uk/Real_Life_Fox_Sculpture.htm?sourcep=base its a bit like this but so much better colouring and not so low down .

we have a 2 legged large plastic pig on the apple tree plot and jack my dog got out there :lol: :lol: he ran past this pig and then turned on his heels and didnt know wether to attack it or come and greet me its was fo funny his hackles where up the whole lot talk about was he confused for a good 10 mins .
 
Plastic Herons work in ponds, fooling a passing Heron into thinking it is someone else's territory. Perhaps a statue of a fox would fool another fox into thinking the same. But it would have to be bigger than the real one to scare it off.
 
Probably not sadly! Foxes aren't daft and at night when they're most active their sense of smell would be the first thing to get them rather than looks! Peeing on it might work as a deterent for other people or deer - apparently - but I doubt a fox comes across that many peoples pee to realise what it meant!!!! :lol: :lol: - but you never know - an urban fox may think twice!!!! :D Electric tape works fairly well, I find the best thing for foxes, aside from a dog, is an angry deer - one of my reds - they were rejects before you ask!! - he must have played holy hell with a fox that got into our orchard one night to get my rabbits, it has a 6ft fence so once in it is hard to get out in a hurry, there was fox fur everywhere and deer tracks all over the spot from a deer at full tilt - I wish I'd set up a video camera it must have been funny to watch!! :D
 
i am not worried about a fox getting in my run as its very fox proof { been up 4 yrs } and the worse the fox has done is left me a little package on one of the concrete blocks :lol: i know that sounds stupid but i worry more about the burglars when the sites get broken into then any mammal only thing thats ever got in my run is a little bull finch i think my friend said it was as he was watching me panic on how the hell i was going to get it out without letting the girls out it got in though the most tinest holes of the netting thats stapled to the top of the tree a fox would not get near that the wire would soon stop it as the fox would get hung .
i understand what your saying about them not being daft in one way it would be interesting to set it up and put a camrea there to film it although it may take weeks for a fox to go by there ,might just put it in the garden and watch jack get freaked out by it i know he would attack it :lol: :lol: full on .woowwwwwwwwwwwwww you got deer :D :D
 
sometimes i despare where were you all when common sense was dished out uncle fox
 
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