Cute little foxy woxy kills fluffy wickle kitten!

[Don]

Telegraph

Telegraph said:

Fox kills kitten in bedroom

A fox mauled an eight-week-old kitten to death in its owner's bedroom after sneaking through an open window.

Leah Betts, 23, described how she found the animal with her pet, Reggie, between its jaws.

Before she could act, it had escaped out of the window, left slightly ajar.

Miss Betts, from Folkestone, Kent said: "I was gobsmacked.

"I won't leave my windows open at night now and it gets really stuffy, but I'm so paranoid.

"To think it was brave enough to come in and stand on my bed like that - I couldn't believe it."

Miss Betts was with her toddler son, Blake, in the living room of their Folkestone home at around 10pm, when she heard a noise coming from her bedroom.

She dashed upstairs, thinking it was her dog making the howling noise.

But when she got to the landing she found him sniffing at her closed bedroom door.

On opening it, she was confronted by the fox

She said: "One of my kittens was standing on the bedside table, hissing, but the other was on my bed and so was the fox.

"It was just standing there, looking at me and I backed out of the room because I was so shocked.

"Then I went in again and saw the fox going back out through the window. The kitten was still alive but just lying there, limp."

The tiny kitten was still alive when the fox escaped but so seriously injured it had to be put down days later.

Miss Betts added: "I think they should bring back fox hunting.

"I'm just so glad I didn't have a new-born baby. Imagine if my son had been younger - he'd have been in there when the fox came in."

A spokesman for the RSPCA said there are an estimated 258,000 foxes in the UK at the end of every winter and that an extra 425,000 cubs are born each spring.

In June, nine-month-old twins Lola and Isabella Koupparis, were mauled by an urban fox when they were sleeping in their cots at their home in Hackney, East London.

OK. It's not a nice story and a kitten got killed nastily which is not nice.

But at the "bring back fox hunting".

Not to put a very fine point on it I wonder how the rise of the Urban Fox as violent pest will affect attitudes in Islington over the coming years. Hmmmm?

The irony is delicious.

[ewenm]

Unfortunate name - Leah Betts was the girl who's death sparked the ecstasy panic in the 90s.

[Pothole]

is she back from the dead?

[flasher]

It could have been worse. The fox could have dropped it in a wheelie bin.

[Famous Graham]

[Brian Blessed] Leah's alive! [/Brian Blessed]

Sorry.

Great minds think alike. Or more likely, fools seldom differ.

Edited by Famous Graham on Thursday 26th August 18:22

[Pothole]

she could just leave a tray of Es out for it....

[Don]

flasher said:

It could have been worse. The fox could have dropped it in a wheelie bin.

[ThePainter]

ewenm said:

Unfortunate name - Leah Betts was the girl who's death sparked the ecstasy panic in the 90s.

Yes, unfortunate, cos it distracted me from the story. I was thinking "where do I know that name from?"

She was the daughter of policeman who encouraged the disuse of drugs if I recall.

[ShadownINja]

flasher said:

It could have been worse. The fox could have dropped it in a wheelie bin.

Sod. That's what I thought when I read the article.

[5unny]

This would never have happened if the kitten was more secure...in a closed wheelie bin for example.

[sleep envy]

maybe she should drink 15 pints of water in half an hour rather than steal anymore oxygen

[Pesty]

5unny said:

This would never have happened if the kitten was more secure...in a closed wheelie bin for example.

[NismoGT]

I do like killing foxes when i do go shooting.

The noise created as the bullet penetrates it's head is quite satisfying.

[Groober]

Pothole said:

is she back from the dead?

That was my first thought aswell.

[DonkeyApple]

Single woman, no kids, has cats. I suspect the fox was attracted by the stench of loneliness and urine.

[munroman]

DonkeyApple said:

Single woman, no kids, has cats. I suspect the fox was attracted by the stench of loneliness and urine.

Except she has a kid, she's a muvva, dontya know?

[DonkeyApple]

munroman said:

DonkeyApple said:

Single woman, no kids, has cats. I suspect the fox was attracted by the stench of loneliness and urine.

Except she has a kid, she's a muvva, dontya know?

Good point. I clearly switched off very rapidly during here opening quote: "I'm just so glad I didn't have a new-born baby. Imagine if my son had been younger - he'd have been in there when the fox came in."

I guess it was a bit too much of me to assume that a single woman of 23 wouldn't actually have a child these days.

[zakelwe]

To miss quote Black Adder

As cunning as a fox that has gone to Oxbridge and has then read all the other fox attack stories so deciding to do like wise and get his name in the Telegraph rather than the Huntsman and Bugle Times.

Either that or some thick bh from Kent is cashing in on a supposed "copycat" crime.

I just hope a badger eats my budgie tonight. Oh man, $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$


Andy

[hornet]

Telegraph said:

She dashed upstairs, thinking it was her dog making the howling noise.

Ok, so she goes upstairs, so presumably first floor?

Telegraph said:

But when she got to the landing she found him sniffing at her closed bedroom door.

On opening it, she was confronted by the fox

So, fox is indoors, seemingly upstairs. So far, so good.

Telegraph said:

"Then I went in again and saw the fox going back out through the window. The kitten was still alive but just lying there, limp."

Out of the first floor window? That doesn't quite add up. Are urban foxes becoming the new scapegoat for when your dog mauls your kitten / child?

[chim]

Yep, bring back fox hunting dear, how I miss the site of 200 hounds tearing down Islington high street followed by 50 bugle blowing riders stamping over the poor old geezer trying to get across the road to the post office.