After half an hour cleaning fetid fox turd from my shoe, our garden is officially a battleground.
The solution is either a moat or an automated turret. I can't decide which is more likely to get me in trouble.
@jonty Why not both? Automated Moat. If it sees something small a trapdoor opens and they fall into the abyss. (Where they can be collected from and then released into a field somewhere)
@jonty Go the Jasper Carrott way with moles: a 12 bore shotgun, revolving stool and a torch. "It'll cost you a night's sleep"
@jonty Our front yard has become that battleground for similar reasons. Except replace shoe with “through the downstairs of the house because of an 8 year old” 🫣
@jonty Fox crap and pee is rancid, if any item of clothing (usually gloves) has been left out overnight at work I never pick it up by hand as they will undoubtedly either scent marked it with pee or crapped on it !
@jonty IR camera, ML model, steerable laser. Just sayin’…
@jonty a guard dog will keep the fox out. Won't stop you having poo in the grass though...
@jonty I had a load of animal shit when I moved in. I built the largest gay shed that you can without planning permission. Within permitted development rules. 15sqm of Internal space.
The animal shit stopped.
So I can confirm that doing that works.
@jonty strategic peeing in the places where they enter/leave your property does deter them [1]
But the novelty wears off after a week or so, and it becomes just another tedious evening chore.
A supersoaker full of piss on a turret linked to a motion tracker might extend the novelty somewhat though…
[1] You can use a jug if you don’t want to upset Karen from No. 12
@jonty I have been asked to build an automated turret for our garden recently.
@jonty working price of this project including tools. Is 20ishK which frankly might be cheaper than the most or laser weapon systems that others are mentioning
@jonty you will simply not regret building the largest gay shed that you legally can without planning. 😌
@jonathanhogg @jonty What do foxes hate ? A mortar full of mint might be enough.
@jonathanhogg @jarkman I am willing to build this and let my friends loose on the algorithm.
I am not willing to do this while it is filled with piss.
