Raking through the dustbin and leaving half of it on the floor, stealing dog food, digging up flower beds (it’s not just mole traps you need here), leaving good sized piles of poo on your freshly cut lawn. The strips are a mesh design, covered in lots of small spikes that are harmless to the animal, but they still irritate them so much once they start digging or scratching that they no longer want to dig in that spot.

The noise acts as both a surprise and an irritation to the fox, causing it to associate your garden with potential danger and that all-important disturbance to its territory, as discussed earlier.We mixed up the fox repellent and put this stuff everywhere we could think of: hedges, flower beds, around the top and bottom of the fence, we weren’t taking any chances.

If you set the frequency to the wrong number, you have to turn both that dial and the sensitivity dial back to zero to reset before changing it, and I thought this could confuse some people as it isn’t clearly explained in the manual. Wherever you decide to set it up, the sensor will then detect any animals coming within an 80 degree arc in front of it, with a maximum range of around 23ft, although using it this way will drain the batteries more so than on a less sensitive setting. The Predator Eye Pro is a very simple deterrent that gives foxes the impression they are under surveillance while in your garden, making them feel uneasy and causing them to leave the area quickly. When the sensors on the product detect motion, they let of a stream of water in that direction designed to scare the animal away. The Pestbye fox repellant has a simple design that is very user friendly, with very few controls except for a couple of dials to change frequency and sensitivity, and only requires you to stick it into the ground with the provided ground stake pointed in the desired direction.If digging holes has been a problem in your garden then spraying Scoot on these areas will ensure the fox smells the new scent and may also help prevent the fox digging again. Some of the products below contain affiliate links, which means this site may receive a small commission (at no extra cost to you) if you decide to make a purchase. Lawns, flowerbeds, fence posts, patios and decking are common problem points and spraying this solution on a regular basis is a simple way to deal with a small-scale problem. If they get a sniff of potential danger, they will get out of the area and won’t stick around to risk injury or death. Please Note: Scoot is a "re-active" spray, which means its repellent properties are dependent upon a chemical reaction taking place between the product and the Foxes own scent.