Fox Control & Fox Removal

Professional Fox Control and Removal

CALL ARVPVCS PROFESSIONAL VERMIN CONTROLON 01772 780303 DIRECTLY IF YOU ARE HAVING ISSUES WITH FOXES!

What can I do? I have foxes on my land!

Urban and rural fox control is a contentious subject nonetheless the culling of foxes is perfectly LEGAL.

If you have foxes that have made a den under your garden shed, garage, timber decking or summer house there are several options that ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control can use to deal with the problem.

Why control foxes?

Foxes can transfer various diseases that can be transported to pets, farm animals and some of them even to humans. Along with being destructive to property and a food pest that is strong willed!

Foxes often are often affected by sarcoptic mange that can sometimes be transmitted. Sarcoptic mange is also proven to affect humans, it is a tremendously contagious disease which is produced by parasitic mites. The skin infection is generally extremely obvious as the fox will have areas of missing fur, in some severe cases being almost totally bald.

Foxes are also transporters of lungworm which if spread is fatal to both pet dogs and cats. Lungworm affects the respiratory systems in dogs and cats, it is a parasitic nematode worm that forages into their lung.

Various diseases can be spread through fox faeces the dangerous of them all is toxocariasis.

Countless people are apprehensive about foxes affected by mange. A shabby looking fox is not automatically an ill fox. When moulting in spring, foxes appear quite rough, however this does not mean they are mangy. They are normally located in woodland and wide-open country, but their occurrence in urban areas is growing. Foxes are opportunist feeders and eat insects, earthworms, fruit, berries, wild birds, small mammals, and scraps left by humans.

Foxes are mainly active at dusk and night. They are solitary, but they very occasionally group together in a pack.

Foxes forage alone in various sections of their territory, which may possibly extend as of 25 to 5,000 acres, dependent on the habitat. They utilize faeces and urine to mark territories.

Reproduction

Vixens come into heat once a year for one-six days. They provide birth to four-seven cubs in a den following a pregnancy of 51-53 days. The cubs are weaned at seven to nine weeks and grow to be sexually matured after a year. The amount of cubs and the time of year in which the vixen gives birth varies on food availability.

The humane culling of foxes

Shooting Foxes

At ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control the shooting of foxes is conducted by an insured, trained and competent firearms license holder. Shooting may only be carried out once an assessment has been done to ensure the suitability of a shot being taken.

ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control will frequently carry an additional high-capacity shotgun as a secondary gun when lamping with the rifle. 

The local police force may be informed of the date and time of the intended dispatch. Fox control is advantageous to industries such as golf courses, poultry farms, sheep farms, schools, garden centres, gardens open to the public as well as residential estates where foxes may well be instigating damage.

Trapping Foxes

The humane catching of foxes is regularly used in built up residential areas. It is a method ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control frequently employ to catch foxes on client's land / property.

When a fox is captured in a live trap it would be ILLEGAL to liberate that fox in an alternative location, it is required to be humanely dispatched.

Proofing your property against foxes

ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control can offer a site assessment with a view to delivering an effective fox proofing plan. Dependant on the vicinity a site review may need to include various buildings, it would be vital to proof all potential entry places so that foxes no longer consider the land or premises part of their territory.

ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control deal with all pest species, so do not hesitate to call and take comfort that ARVPVCS will deal safely and discreetly with pest issues!

Ring ARVPVCS Professional Vermin Control now 01772 780303 or email roger@brendanandertonbutchers.co.uk