MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Mk5 General Area => Topic started by: rskardon on August 08, 2009, 11:56:11 pm
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Hi Guys,
I have the most annoying problem right now, twice in recent weeks my car has been walked all over by a Fox, I know its a fox because i see it regularly and unlike a cat it leaves really very muddy prints all over the car (cats leave marks but they arent as dirty and the paw prints are smaller).
The issue is that because i keep my car fairly well polished it obviously slips, sticks its claws out and puts fairly deep scratches in to the bonet,
Very odd question for a forum like this but does anyone know any good fox detterents? (probably in spray form or something would be best,
Cheers,
R
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I think a .22 rifle should do the trick :signLOL:
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If Only :fighting:
My Old Man has a Shot Gun, but i think it might damage the paint a bit more than the fox :grin:
Also might be a bit harder to Justify here than in the countryside!
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Apparently spraying lemon juice in and around the vicinity is a harmless deterrent for a variety of animals, inc. foxes, and cats.
The other one is lion or tiger turd. You might think I'm joking but both these things work.
P.S. You can buy lion/tiger sh*te from your local zoo/safari park.
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Hi Guys,
I have the most annoying problem right now, twice in recent weeks my car has been walked all over by a Fox,
You need your car checking out then. A VW fox shouldn't be able to walk all over your car :signLOL:
Seriously though.....an air rifle would sort it. Failing that you could ask the council if they could do something to remove it.
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Hi Guys,
I have the most annoying problem right now, twice in recent weeks my car has been walked all over by a Fox,
You need your car checking out then. A VW fox shouldn't be able to walk all over your car :signLOL:
Seriously though.....an air rifle would sort it :wink:. Failing that you could ask the council if they could do something to remove it.
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Give Jeremy Clarkson a call. He loves foxes and will with out a doubt offer to demolish yours :innocent:
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Hi Guys,
I have the most annoying problem right now, twice in recent weeks my car has been walked all over by a Fox,
You need your car checking out then. A VW fox shouldn't be able to walk all over your car :signLOL:
Seriously though.....an air rifle would sort it :wink:. Failing that you could ask the council if they could do something to remove it.
:signLOL: I;m going to try Bleach, aparently they dont like that, might work...
Cheers for the laughs guys!
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You should get a gundog........ or a pack of gundogs for maximum effect?
I could do the whole fox/vw rabbit pun but I will hold back!
How about a ring of pepper dust around your car parking space (tell the everyone its an exorcism for maximum effect)
Or how about make peace not war and leave a little sirloin steak.......(or dogfood)..... and milk outside well away from your pride and joy. I did try this with a hedgehog once but soon got bored.
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a friend of mine had a problem with foxes in his garden and found the best way to get rid of em was to piss all round the garden, you might not want to leak on your pride and joy tho just a thought :stupid:
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Piss is the best for keeping Foxes at bay although rather than piss all over your drive you could try putting human hair (you might have to become a skin head) in a sock and tie them up around the garden. The scent keeps them well away. Failing that you'd shoot the bas**rd or seach the net. Just had a quick look and there seems to be plenty of stuff about.
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Cheers Guys, more good answers, not sure i want to piss on my car just yet, migth run a few thousand volts through the bonet, that'll learn em!
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You could buy a cheap car cover and put that on at night
bill
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....I want one of those to shoot cats! Trouble is that you can get into a lot of trouble shooting at anything, no matter what.
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ive been using a air horn to scare the cats off, they jump about 3 foot in the air and run like mad the other way :signLOL:
i dont think your neighbours would be too happy about you blasting an air horn in the early hours tho
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....I want one of those to shoot cats! Trouble is that you can get into a lot of trouble shooting at anything, no matter what.
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The issue is that because i keep my car fairly well polished it obviously slips, sticks its claws out and puts fairly deep scratches in to the bonet,
....Be grateful you don't have peacocks strutting around your grounds. One of my more posh girlfriend's family in my youth had such a property and one day the cock peacock saw his reflection in the shiny side of a visitor's RR (Rolls-Royce, not Range Rover) parked in the drive and decided it was a rival male and entered battle. The side of the car was the loser.
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ive been using a air horn to scare the cats off, they jump about 3 foot in the air and run like mad the other way :signLOL:
i dont think your neighbours would be too happy about you blasting an air horn in the early hours tho
....My neighbours are used to the various noises I make!
An airhorn is also useful for giving those uninvited sales callers a quick blast down the phone.
Any cat that enters my garden does so at its own peril. However, foxes and badgers are welcome.
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Beavers welcome too Robin? :laugh:
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Beavers welcome too Robin? :laugh:
.... :signLOL: :laugh: :signLOL: - You know me too well! :evilgrin:
Well, there is a river close to my back garden and loads of trees - Consequently all the bird life, some rare, and hence my hatred of roaming cats.
Beavers, eh?
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we get foxes alllllllll the time
best method (already mentioned) is to put human hair (just get your sweepings next time you go for a trim) into the end of a pair of tights and place these around the area at knee height
works for us, the foxes kept eating our cats :sad1:
urine does work too, but not very pleasant and useless in the rain
game turd from tigers etc doesnt really work either, if the fox is uber territorial it will simply roll in it.....and then walk up your car
dont shoot it, thats illegal
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Cheers VC,
Unfortunately i live in a flat so have a communal drive area, not sure what my fellow tennants would think about having tights with hair haging around, though i might be able to sneak a couple in the bushes,
Maybe i can leave something under the car with hair in it, I suspect they'd be even less impressed if i wee everywhere :laugh:
Cheers for the suggestions,
R
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It's the human scent you have to achieve, a fox will change it's patrol route to avoid confrontation
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Cheers VC,
Unfortunately i live in a flat so have a communal drive area, not sure what my fellow tennants would think about having tights with hair haging around, though i might be able to sneak a couple in the bushes,
Maybe i can leave something under the car with hair in it, I suspect they'd be even less impressed if i wee everywhere :laugh:
Cheers for the suggestions,
R
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I'll say it one more time for the sake of it, don't shoot it. Forum humour is fine, but you'll get busted so fast if you if you fire any weapon at it, even air weapons :happy2:
the law is on the side of the fox
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^^^^
I agree - Don't shoot the fox!...............
Kill a cat instead! :fighting:
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since when was it illegal to shoot a fox?our gamekeeper on the farm I work on shoots them all the time! or is it just urban foxes you cant kill!!!you cant kill them with hounds but you can shoot them!