Red Foxes Digging Holes in a Lady's Yard-Nuisance Trapping

I got a call from a lady this summer who said she had red foxes digging up the sod in her lawn and destroying it so much that she couldn't even mow her lawn all summer, and that every morning she had to wake up early and re-roll the sod over the holes to fix it.  I chuckled a little and said, "Ma'am, I think it's probably skunks doing that, they dig up the grubs".  She said, nope, she knows they are foxes and that nobody else would believe her either.

So I went out to her residence and inspected her lawn.  I was dumbfounded.  I couldn't believe the huge areas that were ripped up; some were 8 feet in diameter and 6 inches deep.

So I set 6 traps in her lawn and baited them with various baits, urine, gland lure, etc.

The next morning, I came back to check my traps and caught THREE foxes!  I couldn't believe it.  I relocated them to my relocation spot, and kept trapping that week.  The next morning I caught another big male and relocated him as well.  I only had a few days to trap there, but I ended up relocating FOUR red foxes from her property.

I followed up with her a month later and she happily reported that she had NO MORE diggings and that the problem seemed to be solved; this year.

One of the diggings before I set traps...

The same digging after I placed 3 traps there

The first day I caught 3 foxes; these two right next to each other.

Three total on the first night!

Then this male on the second night, making 4 foxes total from this one lawn.