Foxing the Fox: How To Keep Your Pet Rabbit Safe!

Posted by admin on March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment

Urban Foxes Foxes are on the increase and especially in suburban areas. Figures suggest that although rural population’s average about one fox per square kilometre urban areas can support up to 30 adult foxes per square kilometre.

For Rabbit owners the fox is bad news. Foxes regard rabbits as a tasty snack regardless of whether there is other food available. Most at risk are rabbits running fee in the early morning or late evening, or those trapped in inadequate hutches at the bottom of the garden. Peak times of year for foxes to kill pet rabbits is early in spring when the vixen needs food for her cubs and in autumn/winter when food can be in short supply, but rabbits can be at risk at any time of year.

So how do you protect your pet rabbits from being eaten or terrified to death? Thankfully there are many things that you can do, from a simple bolt to an electric fence. There are so many things that you can do that we have split it down into a seven part series of mini articles.

Foxing the Fox Part One: Rabbit Hutches, Runs and other Basic Equipment.
Foxing the Fox Part Two: Scent Marking to Keep Foxes out of Your Garden
Foxing the Fox Part Three: Sonic Fox Deterrents to protect your Pets
Foxing the Fox Part Four: Red Eye Lights
Foxing the Fox Part Five: Using Prickle Strips to Fox Proof Your Garden.
Foxing the Fox Part Six: Electric Fences to Keep the Fox Out.
Foxing the Fox Part Seven: Are my House Rabbits Safe From the Fox?

Each mini article is packed full of tips, tricks and ways to keep your pet rabbits safe.