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Nine-month-old twin girls are seriously ill in hospital after apparently being mauled by a fox as they slept in their cots in east London.

Police officers and paramedics were called to a house in Homerton at about 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.

Both girls suffered arm injuries and one is thought to have facial injuries.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found two nine-month-old girls with injuries.

"Both babies were taken to an east London hospital where their condition is described as serious but stable." ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643257.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643257.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes!
"Release the hounds".

Thank you Sir Godfrey.


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Seriously though, that's wierd. I mean, dingoes and such here are known to go for this stuff, but foxes are a new one for me.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643271.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643271.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643416.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643416.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes! ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643420.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643420.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643454.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643454.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643458.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643458.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes!
mattyrm wrote:Aye i read that this morning, i fething KNEW we shouldnt have banned fox hunting! :-)


Actually, I wouldn't mind this, since the chances of a bunch of sherry drinking ruperts in bright red coats surviving long in the East End of London is fairly slim.

All they'd find would be a bloodstain and a horse on bricks... ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643515.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1643515.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644113.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644113.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes! http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644116.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644116.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes!
helgrenze wrote:From the report, I do hope the animal they caught is tested for Rabies. That type of behavior, especially the fearlessness, can be typical of a rabid animal. It is usually a better sign than foaming at the mouth.


Rabies doesn't really happen in the UK. Not sure how or why, but it's been pretty much wiped out over here. But it's the other problems Foxes can bring, like Mange.

Though Urban foxes tend to be the healthiest of the bunch, what with the easy pickings food wise etc.]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644125.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644125.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes!
helgrenze wrote:From the report, I do hope the animal they caught is tested for Rabies. That type of behavior, especially the fearlessness, can be typical of a rabid animal. It is usually a better sign than foaming at the mouth.


We don't have rabies in the UK, except for some journalists. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644173.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644173.page GMT Re:Newest threat to babies: Foxes!
MeanGreenStompa Wrote:
Actually, I wouldn't mind this, since the chances of a bunch of sherry drinking ruperts in bright red coats surviving long in the East End of London is fairly slim.

All they'd find would be a bloodstain and a horse on bricks...


As opposed to fox hunting as I am I would allow it just to see this ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644202.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644202.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes!

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As recently as 2004, a new symptom of rabies has been observed in foxes. Probably at the beginning of the prodromal stage, foxes, which are extremely cautious by nature, seem to lose this instinct. Foxes will come into settlements, approach people, and generally behave as if tame. How long such "euphoria" lasts is not known. But even in this state such animals are extremely dangerous, as their saliva and excretions still contain the virus and they remain very unpredictable.[/qoute]]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644224.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1644224.page GMT Newest threat to babies: Foxes!
Look at this story from 2006.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/05/foxes-london.html
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Please don't use Dakka's image hosting for non wargaming pictures. ta. ]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1647063.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/298897/1647063.page GMT