Grandmother woke to find fox on her bed

A Birmingham pensioner had the fright of her life when she awoke to find a fox had crept into the house and onto her bed. Magistrate Mary Small, who has a phobia of foxes, shot from under the covers and ran down to her husband Tony thinking the furry intruder was a cat. Tony went upstairs to investigate – only to find the cub cowering underneath a computer desk in a spare room.



“Mary was terrified,” said Tony, aged 69. “She’s paranoid about foxes. It’s a good job she initially thought it was a cat.” Not sure what to do, Tony eventually managed to coax the cub downstairs and out of the front door of their house in Franklin Road, Bournville. They said they thought it must have sneaked in through their patio door either the previous night or earlier that morning.

Mary, aged 68, said: “Luckily it did not bite and we managed to get it out of the house. It was very scary.” Tony said the fox, which returned to the house minutes after it was shooed away, was only about three-months-old.



He added: “I checked its sex because Mary was concerned it might have been a vixen and had given birth. We quite often get cats coming inside but not foxes. It really shook Mary. She instantly had a shower because she was worried about having caught any diseases.”