New Homemade Fox Trap (But Will It Work?!)

We have spent a lot of time and money on fencing out the foxes - and we will continue to do that. Undergound netting, six-foot high chain-link fencing, electric fencing – the works. But you need to understand that fences start deteriorating the moment you put them up. Sooner or later some part of them WILL fail. We just have to hope that we see the damage before the fox does.

From that point of view, the smaller the pen/cage/run is, the better. But if, like us, you want the animals you look after to have a great life, then you want a big run for them to explore. We keep ours in the soft-fruit orchard - and that means lots of fencing.

We don’t own a gun. And we don’t want to either. Anyway, they’re expensive and not easy to get here (we’re not in the U.S!).

We’re not interested in hurting the fox. So obviously we aren’t going to use snares or gin (leg-hold) traps for that reason. Apart from the cruelty involved, there’s no way to make sure a badger isn’t caught. Or a dog. The same goes for poisons – except it’s worse with poison because you kill everything that eats the dead animal too.

What will we do if we catch the fox? The plan is to take it somewhere else and let it go (would you like a fox? For free!). The fox population fluctuates a lot and territory boundaries move constantly – the fox would have a chance of finding a new home, at least. Of course, a new fox will quickly replace the one we moved – but it might take her a long time to find her way around our place. (Our aim is to get rid of the one who could write a detailed thesis on our place, our livestock and our movements!)

This is my first live-bait, live-trap design – feel free to suggest improvements. But first of all – do you think it will work?!
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