Two nine-month-old twin girls were in a serious condition in hospital on Monday after being mauled by a fox as they slept in their London home, according to police.
The two girls were attacked in their upstairs bedroom at a house in Hackney, east London, after the fox apparently entered the house through a door left open because of the heat while the twins' parents watched television downstairs, police said.
so fox is not only biased and obnoxious but they also maul small children???
Michael Parra, another neighbor, said police had warned residents not to leave doors open in the summer weather.
"We see a lot of foxes around here. They're always in our garden. Something should be done about them. I would love to get them out of here. They're really a nuisance and a danger. They've terrorized our garden."
And to think Labour MPs forced Tony Blair to waste more Parliamentary time on debates to get foxhunting banned than most other single issues under NuLab!
OK, you've pushed it too far again RoP, the story is about foxes attacking a kid and somehow you're trying to make this a partisan affair.
Even if the countryside act stopped fox hunting - this attack was in the centre (near enough) of London. Even the most ardent of fox hunters wouldn't chase foxes in and around Hammersmith roundabout.
The emphasis on that was to prevent poor wittle foxy-woxy from destruction from those nasty old Tory toffs blowing horns. (It was always a class battle at the expense of more important issues.) But foxes are beasts of the wild, as any other. Boundaries between the human world and the animal are one of the toughest for us to impose.
Protection by rabble and rowdy MPs of more benign animals, like fluffy rabbits or stags, is more likely to gain public sympathy.
Dumbass parent of the year award - POLICE have advised residences NOT to leave the doors OPEN because of them. . . and they do it anyway and look what happened!
ARGH!
WHAT THE ****!
On this note - there are methods of reducing numbers of pests which don't turn it into an agregious sport - or sport for pomp.
The fox is an ignorant animal that doesn't know any better, the parents are ignorant people who know better and chose to act foolishly.
I'm sorry but putting the blame on the parents for opening a window on a hot day is pretty stupid imo.
I don't think it was a door that the fox came through.
I opened my window because it was god awful hot that night and I'm sure thousands across UK did the same. That doesn't mean we invite a fox to come and maul us.
And besides, I blame the fox because this is just one of the many many reasons why I can't stand them.
I agree with the Major of London. Fox population in the urban is getting ridiculous, we need to start culling them. I view them as no different than rats.
The two girls were attacked in their upstairs bedroom at a house in Hackney, east London, after the fox apparently entered the house through a door left open because of the heat while the twins' parents watched television downstairs, police said.
-- The fox entered through an open door - was it upstairs, downstairs? Who knows. --
Michael Parra, another neighbor, said police had warned residents not to leave doors open in the summer weather.
"We see a lot of foxes around here. They're always in our garden. Something should be done about them. I would love to get them out of here. They're really a nuisance and a danger. They've terrorized our garden."
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The fox entered through an open door - was it upstairs, downstairs? Who knows. Regardless, it wasn't in the vicinity of the parents and, thus, they had no clue who/what was coming in/out. They're actually fortunate that their children were only lightly injured and not killed or drug off (as what happened in Austrailia in the 70's) and fortunately no one entered the home fully intent on kidnapping those children.
Sorry to hear this happened.
A fox attacked my son when he was about 9 or 10, on our front porch. I kicked it off of him and shot it dead, believing it to be rabid. I'd never heard of a non-rabid fox attacking someone in daylight right by a house like that... but maybe they're more aggressive than popularly supposed.
Well, why not just shoot the bloody th- Oh, wait.... UK, yeah... Nevermind.
Hm, they're often very hard to trap, or so I hear.
Well, I guess folks will have to shut the house up and suffer the heat then, since apparently there's nothing to be done.
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The fox made its way in through the open sliding windows
Twin baby girls mauled by fox as they slept suffered 'life-changing injuries' family reveals | Mail Online
It was there on Saturday night that the fox crept through patio doors left open in the heat, prowled upstairs, and bit both girls on the arms and Lola on the face.
Wait,...
Looking at that picture,.. and knowing what little I know about (American) foxes,..... Unless there's a species that can fly like a bird,... someone needs to explain how he got up on that roof!
I got a little Staffie cross. Foxes, Badgers, don't bother us much.Well, why not just shoot the bloody th- Oh, wait.... UK, yeah... Nevermind.
Hm, they're often very hard to trap, or so I hear.
Well, I guess folks will have to shut the house up and suffer the heat then, since apparently there's nothing to be done.
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