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Foxes!

Please help me.
How high can a fox jump?
I have been having a debate about this with my husband and he doesn't think a fox can jump a six foot fence.
I believe they can. I am sure I have seen a photo on here of a fox on a garden shed.
If you have any evidence in the way of photos, I would like to show him if possible.

Just to add, that I have a pile of feathers in the garden today. No carcass and no blood. No signs of the bird being dragged out of the garden.
I suspect a bird of prey, but don't want to rule out a fox.
Thankfully the shed doors were shut, so I doubt that the buns would have seen anything and they seem fine.
We have had a cat new to the neighbourhood visit us recently and the buns were really stressed about that, so I am hoping he isn't the culprit today.

Thank you in advance.
 
Yes foxes can jump a 6ft fence, I havent got any photos as I ran down the garden to shoe him away.

I couldnt sleep after seeing him in my garden.
 
I am currently caring for a fox cub. She is about 3 months old, and can easily jump 4 feet high - and that's with a metal plate in her leg to repair a fracture. I would guess that a healthy adult fox could easily manage a 6 foot fence.
The pile of feathers in the garden sounds like the work of a sparrow hawk.
 
I have on occassions seen foxes scale the walls of houses further along from me and their fences are higher than mine. We are talking 6 foot and they do this very easily. I would think 7 foot is also easy for them if they are fit and healthy
 
I've seen foxes in the back garden late at night - they can scale a 6ft fence with ease (no photos unfortunately due to the unearthly hour it got me out of bed :lol:) and probably higher, especially if they have something to dig their claws into, much like a cat would climb.
 
Thank you everyone - I thought that would be the case.

Thank you farplacerescue. I have had a few other people say it was a sparrowhawk. GLad I didn't see it.
 
i've seen a fox scale a pretty high wall - not sure how high exactly as it was dark and i was driving but it looked about as tall as me (i'm 5'9). i remember it well because i was so shocked at how easily it seemed to mr fox!

sounds like the work of a sparrowhawk - at my old house there was one who lived in the landlord's garden. i saw some horrible things (i know thats nature, i mean it was horrible for ME to see when i could do nothing about it).

how secure are your buns when not in the shed? xx
 
i've seen a fox scale a pretty high wall - not sure how high exactly as it was dark and i was driving but it looked about as tall as me (i'm 5'9). i remember it well because i was so shocked at how easily it seemed to mr fox!

sounds like the work of a sparrowhawk - at my old house there was one who lived in the landlord's garden. i saw some horrible things (i know thats nature, i mean it was horrible for ME to see when i could do nothing about it).

how secure are your buns when not in the shed? xx

Wow - I wouldn't like to see the sparrowhawk in action. I too agree that it is only nature, but horrible to witness.
The buns are in a 10 x 8 shed with catflap out to their run. It is secure.
They have run of the garden most days, weather permitting, and NEVER unsupervised! I would never forgive myself if anything happened to them.
 
I had a fox in my garden a couple of months ago, first time in 12 years here I have seen one in garden and we have 6ft brick walls round our garden and it jumped/scaled it's way in and out. Scared me to death and have taken extra precautions, now have a sonic fox deterrent up, a new run which is wire all the way round with wire roof, padlocks on all the opening doors on it, a wooden rabbit house actually inside the run, and new bolts on all the doors on both my cages! I am hoping this will be enough oh and obviously my buns cannot free range now unless I am standing in the garden with them.
 
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