Prowling Fox Garden Ornament Deterrent

I imagine that the idea of deterring foxes by placing a life-sized ornament of a fox in your garden had not occurred to you? Well that’s understandable, particularly if you are not especially fond of these creatures. However, placing a realistic-looking fox in your garden could be an ingenious way of keeping real ones away because of the mindset and behaviour traits of foxes in the wild.

Foxes are very territorial which is one of the main reasons for them fouling and spraying in your garden. It’s also an important reason of the side who argue against fox culling. Remove a fox from a territory and another one will simply move in and take it’s place.

Now these ornamental foxes are a similar size to a large fox and, if used in the correct way, are an excellent fox repellent device.

These particular ones are made by a UK-based company called Vivid Arts and have been designed with incredible attention to detail.

The fur has been expertly hand painted, giving the impression of deep texture and looks incredibly realistic. The real strength of these ornamental foxes though are the eyes.

Foxes are acutely aware of being ‘watched’ and the reflection of light off of eyes causes an incredibly powerful effect. Anyone who has driven into their driveway at night catching their headlights on the eyes of a cat will know exactly what I mean.

The eyes on the ornamental fox have been impeccably designed and glint and gleam in the same way. It’s almost eerie how lifelike they are.

Creepiness aside, this is great for causing doubt, fear and suspicion in the foxes coming into your garden. Foxes are notorious for wanting to avoid conflict and are more likely to move on to another area rather than risk an encounter with a rival.

I believe that the best way to use these ornaments to deter foxes is in conjunction with Scoot Fox Repellent, a very popular scent-based deterrent that confuses the fox’s sense of smell and gives the impression that another predator has claimed the territory.

As many of you will already know, a fox uses it’s nose at all times to detect food, orientation and danger, so spraying Scoot on and around the ornamental fox will add a realistic smell to it’s lifelike appearance.

The Prowling Fox Garden Ornament is weatherproof so can sit comfortably in your garden without being destroyed by the elements.

I recommend placing it on the edge of shrubbery or a flower bed to slightly obscure it, creating even more wariness in local foxes.

Spray it on a semi-regular basis with Scoot and you’ve got yourself a very effective fox deterrent.