Fox Attack On Twin Girls

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I just read this on the 'Latest News' on BBC News but when I clicked on the headline there was no info.

I am shocked and hoping they are not seriously hurt.

The incident is not being treated as suspicious by the police who have access to the families and hospital reports..........

Foxes are getting more and more used to human contact, we had them around the factory where I work and they were destroyed due to them wandering around in office corridors and baring teeth at staff. Foxes are dangerous wild animals, especially around young children.

Merle perhaps because a large turkey (was it dead btw, I am assuming it was? ) would have just sat there all still and, well, dead.

I think a 9 months old baby would have yelled and screamed and made a fuss if a fox jumped on it. Maybe I am wrong, maybe the baby/ies would be in shock? I am worried that the parents/mother didn't hear anything until the damage had been done. Very sad.

Lindax that is quite frightening. I thought that foxes were generally quite timid.

But if it was not a fox it would be some other kind of animal attack. If a human was going to injure their child, they would make different marks (sorry). So are you cynics saying the parents were trying to cover up an attack by a family pet? I will ask my friend who lives in Stoke Newington if she has heard any further detail.

I see a fox sitting on my lawn daily, atm. Usually when I am making tea when I first get up - so about 8ish.

Urban foxes are not at all shy or timid. They are an extremely common sight.

I expect that whatever happened was fairly quick, maybe the children did yell and then the parents came to see what was happening. I don't think anyone should be jumping to conclusions, until the full facts are known.

In my friend's case I was surprised that they were able to smell an uncooked turkey and to come into an enclosed garden, which was bordered by other gardens ie not wasteland, but as has been said earlier on here urban foxes are increasingly daring.

I still really like foxes, though.

I don't know why everyone is so sceptical. There was a similar attack on a baby a few years ago, does no one remember it?

Foxes are scavengers, but they're quite capable of going mental with chickens aren't they? So why wouldn't they with other small mammals who can't fight back?

Obviously, don't mean to imply that chickens are mammals.

I have always been nervous of foxes despite thinking that they are generally timid. I remember reading that foxes and rats etc have become bolder over recent years. Something to do with being attracted to rubbish and in a lot of urban areas there is less "natural" food for them so they are forced to come nearer to domestic settings.

Yes, agree with you, no one should be jumping to conclusions.

i doubt 'fox' would be in the title unless they had proof though...

the fox isn't going to sue is he?

Poor parents. I hope she doesn't ever read this thread.

I mean 'they' not 'she.'

I live nearby, we have LOOOOOOOAAAAAADS of foxes here. Saw 3 together last night. Basically I'm on their side, they've got such nice tails.

I thought it was odd too. I really can't believe that a fox could have done this. How would hospital distinguish a fox bite from that of a small dog? A fox is a wild animal, even an urban fox, surely they avoid close contact with humans.

We've had young foxes in the garden playing during the day whilst we've been eating on the patio. And the cat came up whinging a couple of days ago. I thought she was hungry, but then I spotted a half-grown foxcub in the extension, nose in her food dish.

We have a lot of foxes and mink around where we are, and would never leave DD alone in the garden as a baby, as a baby would be fair game to a predator.
Not had any come in the house though - but have heard of it happening plenty of times.

People who don't believe it: what do you think happened?

Scary story. We had a fox in our back garden last year - would come very close to the house.

Had to have a little chuckle at the way the Telegraph article has been written though - sounds like an 8 year wrote it...

The RSPCA said fox attacks on humans in the UK were extremely rare.
"This is extremelly rare," a spokesman said.
"I have never heard of this happening before." He said.

it was a dog. a small dog, like a jack russell

Who can tell bibbity, but after recent events I reserve judgement on everything I hear until the full story comes out.

I've never heard of foxes attacking babies, let alone two at once. Perhaps town foxes have more bravado than their country cousins?

Where did the Jack Russell come from?

so, the babies were in an upstairs bedroom, a downstairs door or window was left open which presumably means the family were not in bed unless they have a fairly llax approach to security, a fox came in through said downstairs door or window, without anyone hearing it, walked through the house undetected, headed up the stairs to the twins' bedroom and attacked them?

foxes are called sly for a reason!

I don't think it's beyond the relms of possibility that a fox could attack a baby.

But given the details that have been reported I don't believe that's what happened here.