Fox chases into home after cats
A LANGNEY resident is warning people to be on their guard after a fox chased her two cats inside her home and tried to attack them.
Amanda Singhateh says she wants people to be aware foxes will go indoors after she was forced to hit it to stop it killing her cats.
In the process of trying to get the fox out of her home, Amanda’s laptop and television were both so badly damaged she is having to claim on the insurance to get them replaced.
Amanda said she was sitting in the lounge of her Faversham Road home on Saturday night last weekend when one-year-old cats Jakey and Luther ran into her lounge and hid behind the back of her television unit, closely followed by the fox.
“I heard this awful kerfuffle and the cats came hurtling in through the back door and hid,” said Amanda, whose six-year-old son Saho was upstairs in his bedroom.
“The fox was trying to get behind the unit to get at the cats, who were screeching in fright.
“I was on my laptop which ended up on the floor and managed to get hold of a parasol base and hit the fox with it.
“It wasn’t scared though, it just didn’t seem to care. It couldn’t get behind the TV unit but kept trying to get to the cats.
“I managed to crack the fox on the head and it ran outside but the cats were very distressed.”
Amanda’s laptop and television were damaged and flooring was damaged by the terrified animals.
She is now hoping insurers Prudential will pay out for the damaged goods.
Amanda said, “I want people to be on their guard and know that foxes will go inside houses. The whole thing was very frightening.”
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Carter
Monday, September 19, 2011 at 12:14 AMI know about foxes, and that is very strange behaviour indeed. Still, keeping a parasol base handy in the house was good thinking.
jaybee99
Sunday, September 18, 2011 at 01:51 PMThis is rubbish.I have seen cats and foxes together.They certainly are not aggressive to each other.They look at each other and walk away.Plus they are wild animals and are more frightened of us humans than vice versa.Sounds very fishy to me.Hope the insurance company really check this one out.
roneoron
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 01:39 PMNot an insurance scam then? Sounds arrant rubbish to me, unless the fox was rabid!
Whiffens
Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 11:12 AMThis is absolute rubbish, DO NOT be afraid of foxes chasing into your home after your cats, dogs children or anything else.....the exception being perhaps your pet rabbits. Our family has been visited by a family of foxes and their offspring for over 5 years and they have ALWAYS been more afraid of us than us of them. Yes they are inquisitive and the young cubs can be very nosey, one previously followed us into our house but this is just illustrates how nosey they are, once I turned around it ran off at a rate of knots. They quite happily sit in the garden while we potter around but would they will always be wild animals. I have seen foxes and cats together on many occasions, neither seems bothered by the other and often the cat is actually higher in the pecking order. The only time foxes will be more abrupt and territorial is when cubs are close by but that is the same for all animals. Perhaps the fox you saw was ill or injured that is the only reason I can see for it behaving in such a strange manor towards your cats. I do not believe that it would not run away from you once in your house though, this is totally out of character for any wild animal. Were you perhaps between the animal and the exit, if so it may have tried to get behind an obstical such as the TV and you mistook what it was trying to do. Your cats and their claws would be a tough match for a fox, just think how cats normally get the upper hand on dogs, this is much the same. It is also worth remembering that injuring a wild animal is never to be encouraged, with animals such as swans it can actually be illegal.
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