{"id":369246,"date":"2025-08-24T07:37:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369246\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T07:37:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T07:37:10","slug":"fox-trapped-in-fence-in-london-treated-at-essex-wildlife-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/369246\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox trapped in fence in London treated at Essex wildlife hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A fox that was trapped in a fence and left hanging by its front legs has been rescued by four volunteers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The male cub was discovered stuck between a fence and its concrete pillar and was set free with help from Fox Angles Foundation helpers, on Thursday in Leyton, east London. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">He was taken to the South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Orsett, for X-rays, the charity said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Vet Alda nursed him for a wound in his rump, cleaned up him and he was responding well to the treatment, it confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">On Monday, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c3ezw3g2evxo\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 bGFWdi\" rel=\"noopener\">another fox<\/a> was freed and treated by the same animal hospital after he became trapped in a letterbox of a house in Hadleigh, near Southend.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The hospital said the &#8220;entrapment shows just how dangerous small gaps in fencing panels can be to wildlife&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;With fox dispersal season now under way, these youngsters are still learning the world and need a little help to give them the best chance,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;If any of your fences have a narrow &#8216;V&#8217;-shaped gap, please do everything you can to fix it or barricade access. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">&#8220;Sadly, we see this sort of case all the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fox that was trapped in a fence and left hanging by its front legs has been rescued&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-369246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115082601657834161","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}