Posted: 6/6/2010 1:48:56 PM EDT
Twin girls injured in suspected fox attack in LondonPage last updated at 20:08 GMT, Sunday, 6 June 2010 21:08 UK Nine-month-old twin girls are in hospital after reports they were attacked by a fox at their home in east London. Police said officers and paramedics were called to a house at around 2200 BST on Saturday. The little girls are being treated at the Royal London Hospital and are described as being in a "serious but stable condition". Both are understood to have arm wounds and one has facial injuries. The fox was believed to have been in an upstairs room as the babies slept. A police spokesman said: "The incident is not being treated as suspicious. "We were called to reports of a fox attack. Officers and the ambulance found two girls with injuries." In 2002, mother Sue Eastwood reported that her baby boy, Louis, was left injured after a fox crept into their house in Kent while she slept. The fourteen-week-old suffered bite marks on his head after the animal darted into the sitting room of the house in Dartford. |
"But experts say these attacks are very rare and tend to be in protection of young, or the result of the fox being attacked". Says it all really doesn't it, the foxes were acting in self defence in their victims houses..... Two very threatening 9 month old baby girls .
Let those ban the hunt people take responsibility for such an over population of these predators. Tony |
| From having been an amateur hunt servant for many years, let me tell you that foxes can, and will make a very nasty mess indeed of anything they attack. Those two little kids will have nasty bites that will without a doubt be infected. Foxes carry the most unbelievable infections in a bite. A chap i know had one of his fingers bitten clean off by a fox. |
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Bizarre, you'd think a Fox would be too timid to attack like that. In these days of fortnightly rubbish collections foxes are becoming a little too un-afraid of humans, especially now we cannot chase them down with hounds. However, I haven't heard how they know it is a fox, all reports don't say who saw the fox or give any other evidence. A brief glimpse of something ginger going out the window/door at speed could be one of a number of large UK mammals and a fox is always the easiest to blame (not a poor cute kittie, the biggest murderer of local wildlife). I've had townie friends call 'fox' when everything from a stoat to a badger has wandered across the road when we've been out. Some people have no idea what wildlife looks like. |
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Bizarre, you'd think a Fox would be too timid to attack like that. In these days of fortnightly rubbish collections foxes are becoming a little too un-afraid of humans, especially now we cannot chase them down with hounds. However, I haven't heard how they know it is a fox, all reports don't say who saw the fox or give any other evidence. A brief glimpse of something ginger going out the window/door at speed could be one of a number of large UK mammals and a fox is always the easiest to blame (not a poor cute kittie, the biggest murderer of local wildlife). I've had townie friends call 'fox' when everything from a stoat to a badger has wandered across the road when we've been out. Some people have no idea what wildlife looks like. Nothing to do with fortnightly rubbish collections...... we have had uban foxes for decades. It's just part of the natural adaptation of the species to living in our ever increasing urban sprawl. |
| We were sat in the window table of the "eat all you wish" chinese near Bisley [ dont ask where it is, i dont know ] the one all the shooters use. At 10.30 a little vixen started walking up the passageway to the front door, whilst we all sat watching her. Totally unafraid. |
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We were sat in the window table of the "eat all you wish" chinese near Bisley [ dont ask where it is, i dont know ] the one all the shooters use. At 10.30 a little vixen started walking up the passageway to the front door, whilst we all sat watching her. Totally unafraid. A Little Vixen eh........Ding Dong 
That's nothing.... I saw a fox sneak into a field in Cheshire with a .22-250 and proceed to bag 3 bunnies.... not even phased when I took this picture 
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| This time of year they are plenty of cubs about that all need feeding, If the baby's were crying at the time the fox may of been attracted by the sound of distress, this is an easy meal to a fox. Nothing a 55 gn V max wouldn't sort, Ive shot 30 this year so far. |