Mum finds fox licking daughter's face
Published: 2013 September 17 08:06:27 (5296 Views)
A fox has been caught licking the face of a sleeping six-year-old in south London, before being chased out by the girl's mother.
Lawyer Jo Williams, 40, heard a thump in her daughter's room and ran in to find an urban fox licking the child's chin and mouth.
Little Ava was fast asleep as the incident unfolded, on the fourth floor of the family's £1.5million home near Clapham Common.
Ms Williams described the discovery as having unfurled 'pure terror' upon her but was 'too shocked' at the time to be frightened and instead acted on pure adrenaline.
She chased the fox around her home for 90 minutes before managing to shoo it out of a window in the roof.
'I went to check on her and saw this fox on top of her with its tail all puffed out, looking really scary,' Ms Williams said.
'I rushed to pick Ava up and took her out the room, but it took another hour-and-a-half before I could get the fox out. It had messed all over the room. It was revolting.'
The incident happened on September 3 and is believed to have been a result of an open door at the back of the house, which Ms Williams says she won't allow again anytime soon.
'When I walked in I just did this cartoon double take, I was like “what is this?” I was just so shocked,' she said.
'My little girl does not know anything about it. She was asleep the whole time.
'Thankfully there have been no ill-effects, but who knows what sort of diseases foxes carry? I'm just so relieved it didn't savage her.'
Foxes have been known to attack children in the past, including twin nine-month-old girls, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, in Hackney, east London, in 2010, while earlier this year one-month-old baby Denny Dolan had his finger bitten off by a fox.
- Metro
Lawyer Jo Williams, 40, heard a thump in her daughter's room and ran in to find an urban fox licking the child's chin and mouth.
Little Ava was fast asleep as the incident unfolded, on the fourth floor of the family's £1.5million home near Clapham Common.
Ms Williams described the discovery as having unfurled 'pure terror' upon her but was 'too shocked' at the time to be frightened and instead acted on pure adrenaline.
She chased the fox around her home for 90 minutes before managing to shoo it out of a window in the roof.
'I went to check on her and saw this fox on top of her with its tail all puffed out, looking really scary,' Ms Williams said.
'I rushed to pick Ava up and took her out the room, but it took another hour-and-a-half before I could get the fox out. It had messed all over the room. It was revolting.'
The incident happened on September 3 and is believed to have been a result of an open door at the back of the house, which Ms Williams says she won't allow again anytime soon.
'When I walked in I just did this cartoon double take, I was like “what is this?” I was just so shocked,' she said.
'My little girl does not know anything about it. She was asleep the whole time.
'Thankfully there have been no ill-effects, but who knows what sort of diseases foxes carry? I'm just so relieved it didn't savage her.'
Foxes have been known to attack children in the past, including twin nine-month-old girls, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, in Hackney, east London, in 2010, while earlier this year one-month-old baby Denny Dolan had his finger bitten off by a fox.
- Metro
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