Fox injures sleeping twins

[Polly1958]

I knew it would be a matter of time.A lot of people think they are so cute,as this goes to show they will kill if given the chance

[ummmm]

At 10pm DrF.....Often I have left the door open.

[NoMercy]

Surely they'd be able to identify the species of the attacker by the teeth marks?

My dog looks just like a fox. Same size and colour. I couldn't bear to see fox hunting reinstated in this country. :-(

[IggyB]

if any one thinks that fox hunting should be reintroduced because of this incident just remember that the family lived in Hackney, where i believe even the most enthusiastic hunt master would have trouble leading the charge...

tally ho to stoke newtington chums

[DrFilth]

the thing is, if a fox could walk in who else could ?

Madeleine McCann is still missing, will people never learn

[4getmenot]

my mate kept a fox as a pet once. It went mad one day and bit her so they got rid of it. Hope the babies will be ok.

[daffy654]

A fox is unlikely to enter a home, make it's way upstairs and then attack two babies for no reason. If it were a fox attack I would have expected more severe injuries to one or both babies. As soon as I saw this story I was suspicious.

The truth will out!

[4getmenot]

I cant beleive everybody is playing detectives already! Surely we should all be wishing these babies better.

[jackthehat]

I, naturally, wish the babies a full and speedy recovery.

However.........(you knew that was coming, didn't ya ?), I don't feel that we have been given the full picture of exactly what happened.

[4getmenot]

from your pic I knew it was coming

[mrs.chappie]

Morning all.

I think it goes without saying that folk wish the babies better ...... you'd have to be pretty callous not to.

[RATTER15]

In my opinion it is hogwash!!

I have had many dealings with Fox in my work as a urban pest controller, a hunter (not with a pack of hounds) and rescued many fox from various places, including fox that has become trapped in homes, this does not ring true that a fox attacked these babies!!!!

Humans are not a game that Charlie likes to play!

However it is possible!!

[chas2008]

not just me then that thinks somethings not quite right here, a fox sneeking behind them while they are watching TV ?, really odd...

[DrFilth]

from sky news

Two baby twin sisters are seriously ill in hospital after apparently being attacked by a fox while sleeping in their cots in east London.

A family member called police at 10pm on Saturday night



Officers and paramedics were called to the house in Homerton after reports that the nine-month-old babies had been attacked by the animal in an upstairs bedroom on Saturday night.

They both reportedly suffered arm wounds and one of the girls was believed to have facial injuries.

The little girls are being treated at the Royal London Hospital, where they are said to be in a "serious but stable" condition.

A Scotland Yard 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 claimed her baby boy, Louis, was left injured after a fox crept into their house 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, Kent.

The only previously recorded fox attack on a human in an urban area in the UK was when pensioner Margaret O’Shaughnessy was mauled in Edinburgh in 2004.

The 88-year-old was left with a three-inch bite mark on her leg when she went into her garden late at night to feed her pet cat.

[dothawkes31]

just going back to any's comment that it is an urban myth that a fox 'kills for fun', before it was an urban myth, in the 1930s in fact, my mum walked into a hen hut on her dad's farm, an isolated dairy farm high up in the penines at Blackshaw Royd. A fox had been in in the night, slaughtered the hens, only taken a couple. The fox hadn't been disturbed at all, there was noone close enough to disturb the animal. Mum learnt at an early age the damage a fox could do, farmers hate foxes if they have hens. It's not an urban myth that they hate them and it's not an urban myth that foxes will kill for fun, it's the wording used, Mum used to say foxes kill everything because they can. Is that a rural myth?

[tamborine]

If foxy gets access to poultry/mammals he will kill all to 'store' his carnage. Fox's only purpose is to kill.

They do make lovely coats :)

[Old_Geezer]

Judging by the African animal head trophies on some walls we must be consistent and say that humans only purpose is to kill then.

A fox attacking a human is a rare event. If one went upstairs and attacked babies that must be unique. One can not reasonably judge a species on the activity of one individual on one occasion.

Nature is raw in tooth and nail, as someone once said. Unfortunate things do happen. It is not an excuse for us to act badly.

[Old_Geezer]

Amazing how, one can attribute human failings to other species. How does one know the fox thought it fun to kill more than it chose to eat afterwards ? Maybe it has evolved to turn all prey it has around it into food whether it wants it to eat all at that time or not. Seem more likely to me it silences the squawking prey, then chooses what it wants. It is the responsibility of the poultry's owner to ensure they are secure.

[tamborine]

that is the foxes habit, og. Can a fox use a pc? Fox's dont equate with humans !

[jackthehat]

As regards foxes and hens.............it always rankled with me that Farmers turned their attentions to killing the foxes rather than address the security and construction of their hen huts/pens.

[tamborine]

I prefer wild animals to remain so....not fed & encouraged into human environments, as that's how they over populate & loose their fear of people.

In the wild 'a' fox has a wide territory thereby keeping the numbers down.

Those who keep poultry have fox security as a first deterrent.