What??? A fox napping on a windowsill in Notting Hill?
I couldn’t figure out how this Honorary Cat™ got up there, but Bored Panda suggests an answer:
This sleeping fox was spotted by London resident, author, and editor Rachel Johnson. While it’s difficult to come across a sleeping fox anywhere, it’s particularly unusual to find one napping on the second story window ledge in Notting Hill! The sighting took place on Thursday; as to how the fox got down, it remains a mystery.
“It must have got up via the scaffolding on the house next door,” Johnson told the Standard. “People were coming out of their houses with telephoto cameras – but luckily no-one decided to shoot it! It was rather a sitting duck there on the ledge. There are lots of them in the neighbourhood, always in the gardens – they seem to own the place. But when I saw this one it was hard to feel the same sense of rage.”
h/t: Su
The drain pipe right next to the window ledge, surely?
Incidentally, the same way a burglar would get up there…
an honorary cat burgler
…or maybe the next ledge…
And don’t ask about that one – it’s ledges all the way down.
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Foxes are everywhere in London and have been for a number of years. It is extraordinary. I’ve come across foxes you have to walk round to pass. They have no predators and many people feed them as (feral) pets.
Eventually they will adopt Forever Homes with Complementary Staff.
Now I wonder, if foxes are so smart, how is it that cats did it before them?
A mutation for calmness is thought to be the answer.
You haven’t met my cats.
I thought some Russians managed to make a domesticated breed. You’d still need proper vaccinations and for them to be legal to be kept.
Perhaps these urban foxes are domesticating themselves.
After that climb the fox deserves a nap!
Or perhaps it’s someone’s rescue or pet? Like this one: http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2014/05/man-rescues-fox-becomes-its-best-friend/
I think this is the best guess. He didn’t climb to that spot, his caretaker opened the window to let him enjoy a mid-day nap.
I like how the fox takes his human out for a walk. It’s in the video. Foxes are such beautiful animals, I’d have one in a heartbeat, if I could get away with it.
Love it!
Vulpes Vulpes! *Feel like a biologist*
Just remember that in Latin binomials the species designation (the second word) is not capitalized.
Maybe he’s just exclaiming, “Foxes! foxes!” in Latin.
No, I was just happy I knew the latin name of this particular animal by heart. I only made a mistake with a capital letter, but I can live with that. 😛
And you did better than if you were writing in Latin because inLatin, you only capitalize proper nouns.
On the subject of spelling, UK English would refer in the title to ‘storey’.
In the U.K. it would be the first floor not the second.
Awwwww!
I expect he could jump down but have no idea how he got up there. Maybe that’s his room.
There seem to be some foxes nearby here in Pittsbugh, but if we had more there’d surely be less damn groundhogs, and that would be a good thing.
Like any self-respecting cat, honorary or not, the fox got there in the easiest possible way. I’d suspect the route was (1) enter the house – probably from the garden ; (2) find the lift (if the Staff have installed it yet, lazy hoomins), otherwise walk up the stairs. Raid any food you find on the way. Get to the first floor (this being London, British rules). Climb out of the window for a nap.
How did Puss-n-brush close the window? Actually, if you look at the sash on the window behind Vulpes, it’s open by a couple of inches. That may be enough for it to be relaxed about getting back in. and the window one ledge over looks fully open.
Puss-n-brush. +1
I’ve been kicking this around for a couple of hours and I’ve come up with is a theory that involves foxes learning to use UAVs.
Unidentified Aerial Vulpines
I don’t know. It’s a miracle.
Indeed. No other explanation is possible.
Aidan beat me to it. In through the front door and up the stairs, of course.
Rachel Johnson = Boris’s sister …..
I mild winter means we have a lot of foxes this year, I live near central Dublin and I’ve never seen so many leggy cubs running about the place. I leave my home early most mornings to take my dog hiking and see them out cavorting and playing and snooping in gardens. Cute, but they have killed two neighbourhood cats.
And how did the fox get down?
Old Reynard is a clever boy.lol
While grey foxes are known to have tree-climbing prowess, it is my understanding that red ones aren’t tree-climbers.
Spotted by Rachel Johnson, sister of our next prime minister.
I was reading at the weekend about the i’invasion’ of New York by coyotes & skunks… & how d*gs are the chief victims of the skunks!
Hee hee!