Foxes digging up squash plants??

I can't believe that this is the case, however, I spent ages the other night putting in summer and winter squash plants that I had carefully nurtured and went to the lottie yesterday to find that almost half of them have been dug out.
I put a bit of bonemeal and a few chicken pellets in the hole before planting, gave it a good mix up and watered the plants well after.
Can it really be foxes??? Just random pulling out of the plants and then looks like digging in the holes??

It think it might be - I lost some kohlrabi in the same way last year.

The chicken manure and bonemeal definitely attracts foxes, and the worst bit is that if you try to replant in the same hole, the fox will just keep coming back and digging them all up again  I learned that dreadful mistake a few years - now I scatter the chicken manure pellets and bone meal / BFB on top several weeks before planting to give the foxes plenty of time to have a good dig around and then lose interest before hoeing everything in and then planting (with just plain old compost in the hole)

The chicken manure and bonemeal definitely attracts foxes, and the worst bit is that if you try to replant in the same hole, the fox will just keep coming back and digging them all up again  I learned that dreadful mistake a few years - now I scatter the chicken manure pellets and bone meal / BFB on top several weeks before planting to give the foxes plenty of time to have a good dig around and then lose interest before hoeing everything in and then planting (with just plain old compost in the hole)

So I need to move the place where I plant the squashes? I cant simply dig out the soil and remove any bonemeal and pellets and replant?? That's a real pain as I have planned this space especially for the squash crops.

You could try covering over the area in some rotted cow or horse manure. That might change their minds  Or, even better, comfrey tea. Peee-eewwww! 

Just be thankful that you haven't the problem of a gal I know - she gets deer pulling up her veg and now she's building a 7 ft high fence to keep the pests out. My mother has the same problem and puts up electric fencing around the veg they like most, like cabbages.

Wow! A few squash plants and foxes pale into insignificance compared to having to go to those extremes to keep critters out Trillium.