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Post by racingteatray on Aug 6, 2019 16:41:00 GMT
Taskrabbit?
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Post by ChrisM on Aug 6, 2019 17:42:19 GMT
Gorilla glue is worth putting on the list. Fox glue.... he's not trying to keep gorillas out, but foxes......... |
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Post by PG on Aug 7, 2019 13:28:52 GMT
I'd try something like Evostick Sticks like **** or Sticks Like **** Turbo (yes they really are called that) to fix the anti fox strips to the stone. It is supposed to work in all conditions. It may only be necessary to clean a few patches along the length of each strip to get it to work. A good stiff wire brush should remove enough loose material from the stone. I used it to stick anti-pigeon strips to a metal building frame when Gripfill had failed and so far it has stuck fast (2 years).
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Post by racingteatray on Aug 7, 2019 14:33:46 GMT
Ok thanks. Will investigate.
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Post by racingteatray on May 16, 2022 19:22:05 GMT
Holy thread revival Batman. Just to note that I finally bowed to the inevitable and bought a replacement cover for my car after coming back from being away over Easter and finding an entire section of the old cover roughly corresponding to the rear windscreen had disappeared and that a new hole had opened up above the windscreen wipers.
£218 and delivered within two days. Had the car cleaned today and then parked it around the back with the new cover on. Let's see how long it takes for the orange vermin to either crap on it or rip a hole in it. Fingers crossed.
There's been a lot of nightly shrieking lately and they keep digging holes in the lawns - it's driving poor Brian the gardener demented.
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Post by ChrisM on May 16, 2022 19:57:48 GMT
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We've got a local fox causing issues around our place too. It brazenly sunbathes on the roof of next door's shed during the day, and last evening I looked out to find it prowling round the garden of the neighbours on the other side. Over the past couple of months, we've had holes dug in the lawn, in flower troughs and plastic pipes chewed up. Quite what they find so tasty about black plastic I don't know. We've also had the shrieking noises, and dogs barking at night - which I'm pretty sure is down to them detecting the presence of fox(es).... we know from the past that some of the shrieking is down to foxes attacking neighbourhood cats
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2022 20:20:10 GMT
Cats and foxes generally get along. Holes dug in the lawn more likely to be said cats or badgers than the ginger buggers. Here we have lost more than half of our badgers to the cull so not that many around any more. In times of greater hunger they can dig a mean worm/slug/snail hole. We also lost about 90% of our rats over a week but with better weather they may be expanding their territory. I put the bird feeders in the Birch tree hanging branches and while the rats could see the food they could not work out how to get to it. Quite funny watching a rat on the grass and looking up at the feeder unable to make the link. Squirrels got it in about twenty seconds.
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Post by racingteatray on May 16, 2022 22:21:55 GMT
Cats and foxes generally get along. Holes dug in the lawn more likely to be said cats or badgers than the ginger buggers. Here we have lost more than half of our badgers to the cull so not that many around any more. In times of greater hunger they can dig a mean worm/slug/snail hole. We also lost about 90% of our rats over a week but with better weather they may be expanding their territory. I put the bird feeders in the Birch tree hanging branches and while the rats could see the food they could not work out how to get to it. Quite funny watching a rat on the grass and looking up at the feeder unable to make the link. Squirrels got it in about twenty seconds. This is definitely the foxes digging. I've seen them do it. They dig in two specific places on the lawn where we had two large trees removed last year (one diseased and the other was too close to the house), and while the tree surgeons did drill the stumps out, there is presumably still a mass of decaying roots down there with a particular concentration of worms, grubs and other vulpine delicacies. |
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2022 22:42:01 GMT
Learn something every day, did not know that. Ta.
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Post by PG on May 18, 2022 12:58:53 GMT
.... Let's see how long it takes for the orange vermin to either crap on it or rip a hole in it. Fingers crossed. There's been a lot of nightly shrieking lately and they keep digging holes in the lawns - it's driving poor Brian the gardener demented. Ah, the joy of urban foxes. At least there is more space out here for them to dig and crap in. |
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