A fox needed a helping hand after falling into a tiny gap between the wall of a house and a garage in West Sussex.
RSPCA inspector Andrew Kirby went to a home in Richmond Road, Worthing, on Thursday (30 April).
He said: “The home owners became aware of the stricken fox cub after hearing her crying and managed to locate her stuck between two walls.
“I suspect she was walking along the top of the wall when she fell into the gap and got stuck. The gap was only around six inches and the more she wriggled the more wedged in she got.
“The owner of the house managed to make a small hole in the wall and removed a couple of the bricks to reveal her little head but she was still stuck fast.
“I broke away some of the mortar and very carefully wriggled her free. The family suspect she’d been stuck for more than 24 hours so we fed her and watered her and confined her in the garden overnight in the hope that her mum would return to collect her.”
Unfortunately, mum didn’t return so Andrew collected the cub on Saturday (1 May) and took her to The Fox Project.
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