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Fed up with foxes

IT IS early on a Tuesday morning and after rushing around getting myself and my four-year-old daughter ready to leave the house to go to work and nursery, I walk out of the front door and step straight into a pile of swede and carrot from Sunday's roast.

Great. I'm already cutting it fine and now I've got to clear up a week's worth of household rubbish even though I have a bin with a lid.

I can't afford one of those wheelie ones at £50 a pop and Bromley Council does not supply you with any kind of bin whatsoever, so the cheap one with a lid will have to do.

Having to clear up my rubbish is becoming such a regular occurrence my patience with the local family of foxes is wearing extremely thin.

Isn't the food we have been keeping them in for God knows how long not up to their standard? I was talking to a neighbour who had found a fox which had invited itself in through the cat flap and was cockily sitting there eating his cat's dinner.

Another neighbour is worried about buying a new car as these vermin seem to have ruined the paintwork on her current car by putting a stage production of the animals of Elmstead Woods on her bonnet.

I'm at the end of my tether. I'm all for saving the environment and its inhabitants, but I think when foxes start costing you money something has to be done.

JOANNE BOXALL

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2:37pm Friday 16th May 2008

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Posted by: cassie, bromley on 12:34am Sat 17 May 08
There is a humane deterrent service which perhaps could give you advice, this is the link to the website for contact details
www.jbryant.co.uk/
Posted by: Worker, . on 10:18pm Sat 17 May 08
Unfortunately a lot of people put food out for the foxes and this has caused a false population.

They are lovely creatures but they can be a nuisance sometimes.
Posted by: L, b on 10:09am Mon 19 May 08
Just a suggestion - why don't you weigh the lid of your bin down with something like a brick. I had the same problem until I did this.
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