well, it all started on Wednesday night. I was asleep and then at about 5:30am i heard this screaming like a baby coming from outside my window. I went to the window and saw a mummy and baby fox in my backyard. the mum ran away, but as we live in a terrace, the baby couldn't jump the wall and so was fenced in. I tried to go back to sleep, but the baby kept howling. I tried to catch it, to let it over the fence, but it was so scared it kept running away from me. and it's lots of fun chasing a fox by yourself in the garden at 5:30am.
anyways, i told my housemates and they looked for it that day, but it had gone. so, Thursday night at about 3:00am same thing. the fox hadn't actually gone, it was hiding under some garden rubbish, so that we couldn't see it. Jose had just got home from work, so he was up and Lucia and i couldn't sleep from the noise, so we were up. Jose and I chased it around the garden for about 15 mins when i thought the only way to let it out would be through the house, cos we just couldn't catch it.
so, i closed all the doors off the hall, opened the front door, and let it inside. but, forgot we had a sticky mouse trap on the floor. so next thing i know, it is stuck with its tail and two hind feet on the sticky trap. so, Jose had a towel around it and i carefully peeled its tail and hind legs from the trap (very hard to do, so many little bones in its feet) and let it go out the front. it went running off.
the mother kept looking for it from the back of the house, but the baby would have found its way back to mum by crying. they know the streets very well. and Jose saw the foxes together the next night on his way home from work, hooray, ahhh, what a nice story. and then i was able to sleep well as the fox now no longer screams outside my window!
never thought there would be foxes in London, but there are and the squirrels and all the other wildlife too. ahhh, bring on the summer, and loving the spring.
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