Not so cunning fox found hanging upside down by his tail from garden fence

A clumsy fox had to be rescued by an animal centre after being found hanging by his tail from a garden fence in Norbury, south London.



The male fox had tried to climb over the fence but his tail became trapped in between the fence panels leaving him suspended upside down.

It is thought he was hanging there for about three to four hours before a neighbour spotted him and alerted the Riverside Animal Centre in Beddington, Surrey.



The centre is now fighting to save the young fox’s tail, of which two-thirds is left, but if he does not stop biting it he will have to have it amputated. Ted Burden the centre manager said: "Where he was suspended it has pulled all the nerves and as the feeling starts to come back he can’t rationalize it like we can - he just wants to bite it."