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Fox cubs die after being snared in football netting in a Catford garden
10:50am Wednesday 23rd May 2012 in News By Sarah Trotter
Fox cubs die after being snared in football netting in a Catford garden
TWO fox cubs suffered a painful death over several days after becoming entangled in football netting in a Catford garden.
An RSPCA officer was "particularly shocked" when he discovered one dead cub and another who had to be put to sleep after it was found with its leg hanging off.
Animal Collection Officer Zenon Brown was called out to rescue the foxes trapped in Muirkirk Road, Catford, on May 14.
Mr Brown said: "Of the many tens of 'netting jobs' each officer attends each year this one particularly shocked me because the poor animal would have suffered for days before almost certainly dying of hunger."
The live fox was snared in the discarded football netting and had its head stuck in fencing. It was cut free but had to be put down to end its intense suffering.
Officer Brown said the situation could easily have been avoided if people disposed of unwanted and dangerous litter in a caring and responsible way.
He said: "A fox has no awareness of the potential danger to life or serious injury that netting presents.
"In most cases and especially with nylon netting, it causes extreme suffering to the animal that becomes trapped and this is made worse as it struggles to free itself."
He went on to say the RSPCA deals with hundreds of wild animals trapped in netting every year, a few of whom require euthanasia while some go to hospital for injuries or open wounds.
The RSCPA is the UK’s leading animal welfare charity and rescues thousands of animals each year. To learn more visit rspca.org.uk
Comments(7)
Citygirl83
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3:27pm Wed 23 May 12
Orp Boy wrote:Maybe you want to learn to put your rubbish bags in a bin then they won't get ripped open.
2 less vermin to rip open my rubbish bags. Strange how the council put up netting to stop pigeons getting into places they don’t want them too ( thousand die getting trapped in the netting ) Yet the because these fox vermin look cute and cuddly ( at the moment ) we get told to not have netting in our own garden.
No animal, vermin or otherwise, deserves to die in this manner.
the wall
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3:35pm Wed 23 May 12
treesrgreen
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11:03pm Wed 23 May 12
Orp Boy wrote:These "vermin" wouldn't have mugged you for your mobile phone or stabbed you for looking at them in the wrong way, unlike the many two legged vermin who are allowed to walk our street.
2 less vermin to rip open my rubbish bags.
Strange how the council put up netting to stop pigeons getting into places they don’t want them too ( thousand die getting trapped in the netting ) Yet the because these fox vermin look cute and cuddly ( at the moment ) we get told to not have netting in our own garden.
RIP little ones.
the wall
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10:11am Thu 24 May 12
treesrgreen wrote:A man was mugged by a fox. The fox stole his garlic bread.
Orp Boy wrote: 2 less vermin to rip open my rubbish bags. Strange how the council put up netting to stop pigeons getting into places they don’t want them too ( thousand die getting trapped in the netting ) Yet the because these fox vermin look cute and cuddly ( at the moment ) we get told to not have netting in our own garden.These "vermin" wouldn't have mugged you for your mobile phone or stabbed you for looking at them in the wrong way, unlike the many two legged vermin who are allowed to walk our street. RIP little ones.
Clarie
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10:13am Thu 24 May 12
emelem
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8:52am Fri 25 May 12
Orp Boy says...
1:36pm Wed 23 May 12
Strange how the council put up netting to stop pigeons getting into places they don’t want them too ( thousand die getting trapped in the netting ) Yet the because these fox vermin look cute and cuddly ( at the moment ) we get told to not have netting in our own garden.