Trapping foxes.

well done mate sounds like you found a young/dumb one or one with very little human contact

What with all the flamin' rats, stoats, ferrits, magpies, ferral cats, stray dogs, and (sorry guys) opossums. Thank goodness we don't have those damned foxes.

Good luck with the eradication programme.

Alan

One less bit of vermin,
? waiting for your fox whistle to arrive
obviously your not getting one of the tried and true aussie ones,
the best whistle for foxes is the yankee coyote whistle that mimics the jackrabbit,
had a mate send me some a few years ago, they are brilliant the first time we tried it had 10 foxes circling us.
They are very inquisitive to the sound of something that represents food.

I normally use OO close up.



john

I use to trap foxes every winter back in Canada.
Once in a leg hold trap you can walk up and give them a wack to the back of the head with a bat or thick dowelling to kill them.
In my experience, they only chew their leg off if they have been in the trap for a very long time - use to check them twice aday and never loss a fox to chewing its leg off.
As mentioned before you need to get rid of all traces of human sent - boiling and waxing the traps. Three to four traps around a bait, and have the traps buried - some cotten or moss under the trigger will prevent the wait of the dirt setting them off.
You can make a could sent by keeping the urine and poo from the already trapped foxes to spread around the trap sight.
I found that coyotes were alot harder to trap and were alot smarter and had a more sensitive nose for detecting humans than the fox.