Anything of a nature that for hygiene or associated health and safety - this includes the Outdoor Spas, Mattresses and Divan Sets However, this method was popularised by Abbotsbury Swan Sanctuary in Dorset who successfully stopped foxes disturbing their swans by installing a series of radios tuned to Radio 4. The Today Programme on Radio 4 actually did a feature on it. The repellent comes is 50g sachets that you then add to water and that gives you a fair old amount to pour/spray around your garden. Alternatively, you can fix this onto any wall, and there’s even a convenient hanging hole already included in the design.

I was finding not so little fox ‘deposits’ in my garden and so it was a great opportunity to give this stuff a whirl. A domestic cat knows their owner will feed it and it knows it can always run inside to the safety of the house if things get awkward.However, the sensors don’t appear to be infrared and only get triggered by motion, so you might get some false alarms from trees and such blowing in the wind. Older models of these fox deterrents used to work on just motion sensors but were often triggered by things other than animals and this led to dead batteries, so IR sensors are definitely a step up.

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.

Fox deterrents don’t harm cats or foxes

You can also select a convenient day to receive your delivery by choosing a named day delivery (delivery on working days only). Armed with actual knowledge of how foxes think and behave, I was able to formulate a successful strategy which led to me converting my garden from being completely overrun into a foxy Fort Knox. A citronella-based spray to discourage foxes from fouling and digging in specific areas of the garden. On the surface it is pretty much the same and works in the same way. The two dials on the front control the sensor sensitivity and the frequency of the sound. Costing around 30 pounds, it is the more expensive of the two ultrasound fox repellants we are reviewing here today, and it does have some upgrades over the cheaper model such as a wider range for the sensor and a flashing light function.