foreveryoung Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Hi, im quiet shocked!!! look at this link http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/10251349.stm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lheurebleue Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 It's crazy it attacked them in an upstairs bedroom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 i gues we forget how dangerouse they can be, just because they normally keep their distance from us (all be it not from the hens.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thenewchick Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 OMG we'll all be living in Eglu's next!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goldstar Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 This is awful. The poor family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I am not sure I believe it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WitchHazel Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I'm with Chuckymama on this. If it's true, it's awful. But it just sounds so unlikely. I know foxes do occasionally come into houses, I heard of one fox which stole shoes. But it sounds really odd that it should come in, go upstairs, find the kids, and then attack them. There has to be more to it than that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickencam Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 That's what I thought too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted June 7, 2010 Author Share Posted June 7, 2010 I guess it could have been because they are small??? the bbc state that they have caight a fox and distroyed it, ,y wonder is how do they know it was that fox??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welovemarmite Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I'm not convinced by this one either.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C&T Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 My parents have had foxes in the house numerous times, and one summer had to have a babygate across the back doors to stop them. Going upstairs sounds odd though - they only ever "found" them downstairs - be it lounge, dining room or kitchen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarrensWorld Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I am not sure I believe it You and me both Rachel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinnamon Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 How odd - I totally believe it. Town foxes are bold & can be nasty...I can see one who was desperate for food for its young doing something like this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 The huge foxes in our back garden have wandered into the living room before now BUT that is in Woodford, and they're so much bigger here than they were when we lived in Hackney. We were only about half a mile from where this is supposed to have happened and the foxes there (although plentiful and opportunistic) were really quite timid and small. They were scared of our cats, and never came into the garden after we got Arthur. I think there's something a bit dodgy about it, and much as I dislike foxes (speaking as a woman who lost three chickens in the last month to them I REALLY dislike them) I would hate to see any kind of extreme cull because of it. Frankly, that's the sort of thing that Hackney Council would do as a knee jerk reaction. I think it's unpleasant to have trapped and destroyed one of them already. Did they even see a fox? I have a nine month old and it's a horrible thought that something could maul her like that. Of course with five cats, my nine month old doesn't sleep in a room on her own with the door open. Not that I think they'd do anything to her other than curl up with her and go to sleep, but why take the risk? One of our kittens once scratched her quite badly because it thought flailing legs were an invitation to play, you can't tell what is going to happen even if you KNOW your baby is safe. When I go to my in laws I don't leave the baby on her own for a second unless it's behind a closed door because they have two dogs. Small terriers, but I'm quite sure they could kill Imogen if they took it into their heads to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannie Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 When I go to my in laws I don't leave the baby on her own for a second unless it's behind a closed door because they have two dogs. Small terriers, but I'm quite sure they could kill Imogen if they took it into their heads to. Yes exactly - could this be a story to cover up for dogs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 "2200 BST on Saturday. A police source said the fox apparently entered the house through an open ground-floor door before attacking the twins in an upstairs room". The back door was open and so was every door between there and the room the babies were in Parents were watching TV and didn't notice a fox come in There are easy pickings in most areas of London for foxes. Ifind it difficult to believe it wouldn't have found something to eat around the bins or in the kitchen. A nine month old is a pretty big snack to take on for a fox. No, it smells bad to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jools Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 That was my immediate thought too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aunty e Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Well I'm glad it wasn't just my nasty suspicious mind. I really hope those little girls are ok though. Just read in another article that they do have a dog, which makes me even more surprised that a fox could get in unchallenged. My cats have had the face off a fox before now (poor little thing). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chucky Mama Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I really hope that it is investigated properly. I read this: "But urban wildlife expert John Bryant cast doubt on the twins' attacker being a fox, describing it as a "freakish event" that "doesn't make any sense". "I have only heard of two cases in my 40 years of dealing with foxes, one of which turned out eventually to be a german shepherd, and the other a cat," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. He said the only way he could conceive of it being a fox was if it was a cub that jumped into the cot and then "found itself with squirming babies underneath it and could not get out through the bars". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goosey Lucy Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Something just doesn't ring true to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael_farnsworth Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 My cats have had the face off a fox before now (poor little thing). Mine too! She grabbed it by the neck and rode it like a pony... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olly Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I hope the children are ok, as they have clearly sustained serious injuries. As John Bryant said on R4 this morning, why would anyone living in East London (and I've lived there myself, and agree totally!) leave all their doors open? It could have been far worse than a fox. I know foxes do wander into houses, and I know a couple of people who've surprised a fox upstairs, so that bit of it seems perfeclty possible. I can't imagine a fox attacking a baby deliberately however. You'd think their dog would have heard/smelt the intruder, afraid I also thought this was rather odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlottechicken Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Another cynic here I'm afraid. How do they know it was a fox? From what I've read so far, the fox wasn't seen in the house, so it is just presumed to be a fox. At the moment I feel there's more to this than meets the eye, and I don't want to feel like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwing Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 I think the fact that a lot of the press has the words fox attack in inverted commas speaks volumes Me thinks there is a much loved family pet at the centre of this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batcatz Posted June 7, 2010 Share Posted June 7, 2010 Wow, this is very strange. I don't believe it was a fox either. I hope the twins are okay. If it is a family pet I don't think they should be protecting it if it attacked their beautiful children. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
