Some years ago I owned a wood where I used to take my dogs. Late one December afternoon I was down there with my dog (who was getting old) and he'd gone up a steep bank continually barking. He wouldn't come down so I went to investigate and there was a Fox hanging by one leg, upside down.
I thought someone had killed it and hung it from the fence but when I went to it, it was very much alive! It was a netting fence with two rows of barbed wire above and it seems he'd somehow got one leg twisted round the top row of barbed wire. There was nothing I could do as he tried to bite when I went close enough and the dog was giving it rock on too so I went home and phoned the RSPCA. They arranged for a Vet to meet me at home and I'd show the way because by that time it'd gone dark and they'd never find the wood (down narrow country lanes) never mind find the Fox plus the gate in to the wood was locked.
The vet arrived and turned out to be a young woman. Not only was she wearing fashion boots and a dress, she was also German! (She spoke excellent English BTW).
I asked her if she was bothered heading off in to the dark to heck knows where to the depths of a wood with some strange bloke she'd only just met. She said she wasn't bothered so off we jolly well went. By this time it's pitch Black so we walked up the path in to the wood and up the bank to the Fox. She restrained it while I cut my barbed wire to free him (it was a dog Fox). She put him in one of those wire cages and got him in the car. She took me home and took the Fox to the surgery to treat his leg which as badly grazed.
I phoned the vets next morning to ask how he was and they told me they'd treated his leg, fed him then took him back to my wood and released him through the gate. She said he'd gone down the path a short way, turned to look, then was gone in to the depths of the wood. She also said he's squirted his glands in her car and in the surgery!!!!!
How about that for a Foxy tale??
It's life Jim, but not as WE know it.
Live long and prosper.
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