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Fox cub freed after getting stuck in garden chair

RSPCA A fox cub looks at the camera and her front paws are between the slats of a large wooden garden chair she is sitting onRSPCA
The fox cub was described as "distressed"

A fox cub has been rescued after it got stuck in a wooden garden chair in Surrey.

The female cub was freed by the RSPCA after officers from the charity were called to a residential garden in Greenhayes Close, Reigate.

Animal rescue officer Chloe Wilson said the "distressed" fox cub had both front paws caught between the slats of the chair.

She said: “When I arrived, the young female fox had cuts on her legs where she’d been pulling and tugging to try to free herself."

RSPCA A fox cub looks at the camera and her front paws are between the slats of a large wooden garden chair she is sitting onRSPCA
An RSPCA animal rescue officer was able to free the female cub from the chair

She said another fox cub was "hiding nearby", adding: "So I suspect they’d been playing on the furniture when she somehow managed to get herself trapped.

"I put on some thick gloves and approached the vixen slowly and, thankfully, was slowly able to lift her up and free her paws."

The cub, was taken to Wildlife Aid Foundation, in Leatherhead, for treatment and rehabilitation.

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