A Fox Is Digging Up Mt Tomatoes.

[Pangea]

I bed the hole with chicken litter and bone meal and the stinky little bastages keep digging my 'mater bushes up.

Last night i set out some hot dog weenies with poison and some others on a kevlar leader and a treble hook. All of the bait was gone this morning when I checked so tonight I'm going with a smaller treble hook. He ought to be there in the morning waiting for his breakfast .22 short.

[SidecarFlip]

.22 short will just pi** him off. I'd be using a WSM from the porch. Happy hunting.

[usmcpop]

.22 short will just pi** him off...

Not if you feed him a whole bowl full for breakfast. :D

[Rbeckett]

Yeah, the 22 Mag flavor will give him his minimum daily requirement of Pb. Woldnt want him to not get all of his vitamins and minerals for a well rounded diet to go with them "maters. I think you are a great guy for considering his nutritional needs in such a kind and caring way!!!!! Hee Hee, too funny.

[SidecarFlip]

Not if you feed him a whole bowl full for breakfast. :D

I prefer 'quality' not 'quantity' myself. I like.22's for comp target and popp'in tin cans but that's about it. I've dropped a few whistle pigs with my .22 Ruger carbine but it's been with Hyper velocity cartridges.

I can't see having the varmit suffer and look like a shower head leaking all over the garden when one hit does the trick.

[Pangea]

I haven't caught them yet but all I have to do is look for the harelipped foxes to know which ones have been in my garden. Three times the treble hooks have been robbed of bait and the hooks show signs of having done damage to the thief.

Ill listen for them to bark and I'll know them when I hear them say Mark Mark Mark!

[usmcpop]

I wish I had a fox in the garden. My problem is with live chipmunks that the cats bring in and dump inside. I did drop a Northern Tool catalog off the 2nd floor landing and bop one the other morning at 6:30 a.m., but it just made him get up and scurry off.

[SidecarFlip]

In this house, the NT catalog resides in the bathroom along with Atlantic, the AMA monthly and various other catalogs of unparalleld interest.

I'd never drop it out the window (on purpose) that is.....:D

[vwguy3]

A live trap,bird seed,a trash bag and 20lb CO2 = Big Mike 8,chipmunks 0

[monckywrench]

Mix some warfarin rat poison into the bait. If da hook don't get them they die anyway.

[Rbeckett]

Hey Monkeywrench, The Wafarin is a No No, I need it for anti clot meds. If you give it to them greedy Foxes, I wont have enuf!! And it would take quite a bit to kill a fox. Not so much for a rat or mouse. Just kidding, but I do take wafarin for clotting control, it is a 4000 year old cure and the best possible way to control a clotting issue with the fewest side effects. When they discovered it was good for use in humans, they had already slowed use in animals due to a risk of ingestion by human children. The chinese use that in addition to colchicine for relief of Gout pain and swelling. Them little yeller rascals are pretty smart in some stuff afterall. I got an old country doc who uses the old treatments, and I think I do better side effect wise because of it. BAck to the OP. Any luck thinning the heard yet? Wont be long and it wont matter, cause 'maters will be done and taters will be comin in.

[Hotfoot]

Break up glass in a cloth sack (or heavy sock)...you want lots of little slivers...mix well into ground beef...(use forks, not fingers). you should see big blood trails in the morning. Cruel, but effective...I had a couple large, very smart, bait-shy rats that went for this. Any pets in the area will also be attracted, so do not even consider if you have them around...You will end up sued and prosecuted.:o

[urch55]

Break up glass in a cloth sack (or heavy sock)...you want lots of little slivers...mix well into ground beef...(use forks, not fingers). you should see big blood trails in the morning.

That is kinda obvious Having Foxes or other wildlife going around sh!tting bloody crap with a hint of glass slivers. Then you may have to contend with the law. By the way what type of laws are out there for the wildlife.?? Because there's no need to solve one problem and start another one for yourself maybe even worst than the wildlife. That's if this thread isn't being staked out already. I know in Florida there is wildlife that is protected by law and if you kill one it better be around your throat and you killed it in self defence.

[poisonedbrew]

Break up glass in a cloth sack (or heavy sock)...you want lots of little slivers...mix well into ground beef...(use forks, not fingers). you should see big blood trails in the morning. Cruel, but effective...I had a couple large, very smart, bait-shy rats that went for this. Any pets in the area will also be attracted, so do not even consider if you have them around...You will end up sued and prosecuted.:o



i had a ****in neighbor do that to my dog inside my fence. i just couldn't prove they did it:mad:

[monckywrench]

The old pan of antifreeze trick is nice too. Put next to some salty meat bait, and the problem may quench its thirst. :D

[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]

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]

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]

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..
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[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.

http://mountainmantraps.com/images/duke112dj.jpg

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!:p

[CypressTexas]

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!