{"id":620888,"date":"2026-04-21T07:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620888\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T07:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T07:10:08","slug":"were-just-pulling-our-hair-out-foxes-terrorising-melbourne-suburb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/620888\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re just pulling our hair out&#8217;: Foxes terrorising Melbourne suburb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suburbs across Melbourne are seeing an increased presence of foxes within their residential areas, with them climbing fences and being spotted in backyards.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after reports out of Glen Huntly that one fox in particular has been terrorising residents and leaving them fearful of letting their children outside.<\/p>\n<p>Press PLAY to hear how disruptive these foxes have been<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Glen Huntly resident, Ralph, spoke with 3AW Afternoons host Tony Moclair, with residents of his street unable to sleep and backyards left destroyed, thanks to the disturbance.<\/p>\n<p>Footage: Supplied\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-225851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-21-114117-300x139.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"169\"\/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-225852\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/260319-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Glen Huntly falls under the Glen Eira City Council, with their website having no information on how the LGA deals with wild foxes, rather referring residents to agricultural management sites.<\/p>\n<p>Images: Supplied\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suburbs across Melbourne are seeing an increased presence of foxes within their residential areas, with them climbing fences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-620888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}