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.

Yes i realise Chamberlain was exonerated.

Still think this story doesn't quite add up though.

Homerton is a dodgy area - I doubt many people leave their doors open around there.

I can see that its difficult to believe -

but what is the alternative???

This is different to the Lindy Chamberlain case because, thankfully, the babies weren't taken. So they are in hospital with wounds inflicted by an animal. If the family don't have a pet (I don't know whether or not this is the case) and say they saw a fox attacking the babies ...

... why are some of you on default denial mode?

an illegal dog?

I can't believe some poor parents are sitting in a hospital waiting for news of their seriously ill twins and people, who know very few facts, are speculating whether they're telling the truth.

When the babies get better (which I pray they do) I'd fucking sue.

PMSL at Homerton is a dodgy area!

I saw a fox at Dartford Station last week. He was just standing there patiently waiting to be fed, lots of humans wandering around and he ignored us, didn't bat an eyelid when we walked past. I looked back and he was approaching a group of teenagers who were eating chips. He apparantly doesn't know that he's supposed to be scared of humans.

it has happened several times before actually

Can't believe the suspicious minds of some people. Urban foxes are absolutely bold as brass, members of the dog family (and we know what they can do to babies), and report declares no suspicious circumstances.

Poor babies. Poor parents.

oh yes, here's another one. Shall we leave the insinuations and speculation now then?

I did read not long ago that urban foxes are struggling these days - since we're all using wheelie bins.

Why would the police not treat the incident as suspicious if there was any doubt?

there may be some evidence to confirm it....i.e the fox himself hanging around?

What is the point of posting helpful links (quietly muses to self)

People - fox attacks are unusual but have occurred and are documented - several times in the last decade, in this country

Hmc - I read the helpful links. Should I have said "thank you"?

Ignore me, I am a cranky old bag

Alright then cranky.

OOOps have inadvertently killed the thread!

No, I prefer to think that the case against Mr Fox has been proven and that no one can come up with a plausible alternative.

Either that or they've all gone to bed!

No you haven't killed it hmc.

Bloody hell, I thought I had enough to worry about without adding a fear of foxes to the list. Poor poor babies. I don't think it's so suprising that this could happen - foxes are basically dogs, and wild ones at that and considering what some domestic dogs have done why would anyone question that this could happen? I really don't like foxes at all, epecially the manky nasty ones we get round here.

I'm very glad then that our foxes run for cover at sight of a human. I could never have believed that foxes would be so brazen as to go into a house and then up what looks like several flights of stairs.

I guess they have lost that wild animal instinct of not going anywhere they may be trapped.

Woah. Mr Fox not so fantastic anymore.

my uncle had a fox that came inot his house a lot as a kid. You got to think what 9 month old babies look like to a fox? small, pink and laying down!
poor babies hopethey are ok

very sad what has happened to those babies and also very sad that people are implying that the injuries they sustained may well not have been inflicted by foxes.

When in the UK our home is not far from a large town and an airport and yet we have had foxes in our garden on numerous occasions over the years which killed one of DD1s rabbits

I hope the little girls recover soon

its not being treated as suspisious, so there muist be enough proof it was a fox.

A fox will pick up young lambs when they are born and this time of year female foxes are especally hungry as their cubs are young and growing fast.

A young baby in a pram would be just as helpless as a new born lamb.