Feeling a little shaken by two visits into the bedroom by a fox over the last two nights. Ground floor flat in urban area. Lots of urban foxes around. I've always actually loved seeing them around late at night (and sometimes in the daytime) but what's happened just feels too close.
Bedroom has patio doors but no window whatsoever, so I tend to have the door open a bit for ventilation; just enough for the cat to get through. We're protected from the road by vegetation and a fence. We don't have a garden.
Night one: DP and I woken by a mighty kerfuffle in the bedroom, unearthly fox screech, cat going bananas etc. In the morning found one of DP's slippers (well, slides) outside some metres away.
Stupidly I thought that was a one off and left the bedroom door open again for ventilation last night, just enough for the cat to get through. At what turned out to be 2.30am, same kerfuffle only much much more. A fox was on the bed - it was all so fast but DP says he hit out at it and it dashed back out. I rushed to look outside and saw the outraged cat chasing a fox around the corner of the property. There are muddy fox-sized paw prints on the white bottom sheet which is where it landed, and obvious muddy claw marks 
Two items of evidence outside this morning:
- a half eaten piece of toast I assume scavenged and dropped
- a manky stinky pair of jogging bottoms, not ours, probably scavenged from the charity clothing bin nearby where there's usually a pile of clothes on the ground
I always thought reports of foxes coming into houses were a bit of a myth so I'm a bit disconcerted. And on hot nights I really really need to be able to have the bedroom door open more than a crack.
Am googling deterrent ideas but any thoughts welcome.
We're definitely on its nightly route.