Sandra

Fox Watch

Id love to see some baby foxes in the garden I know people say theyre pests but i like them
Lots of the neighbours have chickens bet they wont be impressed if its a fox

To big to be rabbits besides you would see poo everywhere.

Seems big for a fox though but right for a badger, badgers do not have one exit/entrance hole, they have several so look for more, the other thing is badgers keep cleaning their den so you usually see large earth banks at the entrance.

To check its being used you can put fresh soft soil in the front on the entrance, keep a close eye on it for footprints, put a couple of sticks that are secure enough that wind cant knock them over but easily pushed by a fox/badger.

Smell the hole, you should smell things if its being used lol and look at the top of the hole, get a torch and see if hair has caught in anything :-)

Ooh get bear grylls here

Goodies though Bren....do what sange says and get ready with a camera for before and after shots

Good idea it was meant to say

I will get hubby to climb up through the nettles and put something down

He took the photos aswell theres no way i was getting stung and chased by a badger

Badger wont chase you, they will smell you and hide unless confronted.

.... If it did chase you they've got ever such sharp teeth

And bloody long nails Have you seen the length of them

Ooooh forgot about the long dirty nails

hubby will cope

Yea hell be fine

The worst thing is the fleas and as much as I hate to say it Bren but be careful of mange But thats how a lot of our dogs get it.

SuzieB wrote:

Reckon its a Red Fox then Bren their entrances are about that wide

Get Judes on it she knows everything

judes knows nowt!

Badger dens







Fox dens







both look very similar to me!! Big holes!!

they look like holes to me aswell

Have told hubby he needs to put some sand outside the hole to check for pawprints

Mange never thought of that

How do they catch mange the dogs arent going amywhere near the hole luckily its out of site round the back of the shed and half way up the bank
Hubby only found it because he was clearing a load of weeds that had grown over it so maybe its an old one thats not being used
then again why would Mickey bark in that direction every night
Maybe its these little guys

Could be hedgehogs hanging around They are covered in fleas as well

Well, when Bryn got mange on his face and I took him to the vet she said he had prob stuck his face in a bush or against something that a fox had been against Thats why I wanted to warn you Just what the vet had said

Awwww ickle hedgepigs!! ....

Ewwww mange....my friends dog is losing some of its hair, she showed me last night, and that looks like mange, so when everybody got back home I made them wash their hands before touching our dogs

There are two types of it, one is catching and the other is not. Tbh I think Bryn gets it from stress, the dermy one lol cant remember its name, he is a right fretter, the other dogs didnt get it, the one type they all have, like those little bugs we all have living in our eyelashes, they are born with the bugs but their immune system is generally healthy enough to keep it at bay, then when it goes down it can start to come out, the first signs are on the face, get some advocate and give them and it will clear and generally their immune system is back up and dealing with it.

The other type is the nasty horrible type you see on animals on tv, that is the one that is catching, some dogs just seem to be more prone.

A lot of allergies look like it as well

knowing my luck Mickey will pick up the second one

His coat is looking pretty good atm Keiras is awful shes shedding really badly will keep an eye out for any change

Sandra

They will be fine Bren Its just a caution to be aware of

I think its a high possibility that the hole is abandond and a hedgehog is using it just like you said. If it wasn't empty I bet it ruddy well is now when whatever it was saw your two dogs

Whats this

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Remember last year with Caius' eye http://www.dogtalk4us.com/t7854-caius-back-at-vets we had advocate Bren got it from vets still have it on repeat (just in case) its great stuff highly recommend it fox mites was the cause better safe than sorry prevention better than cure to IYNWIM

great advice as always from Sange

Will have to see about getting some in