chicknmania wrote: If anyone is interested, I talked to a professional State licensed trapper here and learned the following:
Foxes are virtually impossible to trap in a live trap. Leghold or snare trap works, but that's an automatic disqualifier for me I will not do that.
Right now, in Ohio, it is illegal to trap foxes, they are not in season. He said HE would have to get permission from the game warden, although we wouldn't necessarily have to. If we trap the mother and the kits go free, they will die without her. So trapping has dropped way low on my list of resolutions to the problem. He suggested coyote urine, said it should work well, (the pure stuff, not synthetic)...and that it will not attract coyotes. Better still, he suggested bobcat urine, as something that should repel anything. So, we ordered a gallon of it on line. I will let you know if it works if you are interested. If it doesn't, the next step for us will be to hire someone to sit out there all day with the hopes of shooting the whole fox family. I have had it. I very much hope the bobcat urine works, foxes are very cool animals, very important to the environment, and I will say what I have always said, that the predator doesn't know he's offending people. All he sees is a meal. Remember that, folks, please.
OH, and by the way, he says it is BS that "pee is pee" and there's no difference. There is a difference, and the animals know.