The pair of foxes snapped walking across a Mt Waverley roof in the middle of the day on Tuesday. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied
The foxes walk the roofline of the Mt Waverley home. Source: Supplied
One a wet day the pair show no fear as they traverse the roof. Picture: Supplied. Source: Supplied
FOX fever is taking over Melbourne, days after a Mt Waverley woman snapped two foxes frolicking across her neighbour’s roof in the middle of the day.
Thousands of people have seen the photos and Twitter has exploded with references to the furry pests.
Darryl Berg tweeted “Newsflash. Pet dogs do not prefer suburban foxes. They just bark incessantly and annoy your neighbors. I prefer foxes.”
Another Twitter user said “ok never stand at your window naked looking for foxes because someone WILL, and I promise, WILL walk down the street”.
Sportsbet has also bought into the craze, offering good odds for the next fox sighting in Melbourne CBD.
Federation Square is pretty likely, at $3, while a fox on a tram is offering $21 odds.
The Mt Waverley sighting came just two days after the Waverley Leader’s sister paper, the Maroondah Leader, reported on authorities warning property owners to set up their yards to defend against the number of foxes in Melbourne’s suburbs.
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The density of foxes in Melbourne is estimated at three to 16 per square kilometre, with one recently caught on camera overnight in the backyard of a Kilsyth South house.
A crafty fox caught at night prowling a backyard in Kilsyth.
In Tuesday’s sighting, Angela Millan was in her Essex Rd home in Mt Waverley when she saw the foxes at 11.45am.
“We’ve lived here for 16 years and I’ve never seen anything like it,” Ms Millan said.
Mrs Millan photographed the foxes on her phone but they retreated when they spotted her.
“They were just casually walking along the roof line,” Mrs Millan said.
“They gingerly turned back when they saw me.”
Mrs Millan said her twin children Sebastian and Stephanie, who are in grade three at Essex Heights Primary School, were thrilled.
“They took the photos to school and the whole class was talking about it,” Mrs Millan said.
In the neighbouring municipality of Knox, Parks Victoria is conducting a fox-poisoning program in the Dandenong Ranges to control numbers. This will hopefully bring some relief to Knox residents plagued by foxes — especially in suburbs close to the park, such as The Basin, Ferntree Gully and Upper Ferntree Gully.
The Knox Leader also reported on the extraordinary lengths some residents were taking to deter foxes.
Ferntree Gully resident Tahanee Kakoschke tried every home remedy — even sprinkling her partner’s urine outdoors — to discourage a large red fox living in her pine trees.
Ms Kakoschke’s plea prompted a Boronia couple who own four dingoes to answer the call to help evict the wily fox.
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