I have reasons for objecting to the excess fox population in Forest Hill. The population is as big as it is only because of the ready availability of food. The larger population this supports then has problems finding places to live.

The bad smell in my cellar was eventually traced to a fox that had been living, and had then died, under the dining room floor - not nice.

A second fox curled up in a drawer under a bed depositing fleas and blood. It left the house when the front door was opened but returned the next day to curl up on a white sofa and pee on the carpet. Foul.

Both foxes were entering through a cat flap into the cellar, clearly desperate for accommodation and prepared to confront humans to get it. A superior cat flap with magnetic catch solved the problem of them entering the house but I still see far more of them in the garden than I would wish to.

People who feed foxes do not realise that they are subjecting the foxes to increased levels of stress as they try to find territory. A well fed pair of foxes will produce about six cubs every year for 10 years. Of the 60 cubs produced, 58 have to die without reaching sexual maturity in a stable population. The more they are fed, the more unhappy cubs there are to die.

Please don't feed them and let the population stabilise at natural levels.