Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: sheryl on April 26, 2011, 20:16:24 PM
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I know that a lot of people say that Foxes will not attack healthy cats but if my sister had not intervened last night one very cute and very healthy ginger and white young cat migh not be here today.
She was woken at around midnight to strange growling and hissing noises, when she went outside a large fox was trying to get underneath her neighbours car, luckily it couldnt fit and my sister chased it off when she looked under the car a ginger and white cat was trembling in fear, she managed to coax it out and took it indoors to check it over - luckily it was only badly shaken and spent the night in my sisters spare room, she was too worried to let it back out incase the Fox was still around.
After a lot of door knocking she has found the owners who have promised to keep "Dinky" in at night.
So please be careful because if you have Foxes around
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Yikes, thank God your sister checked it out and manged to save the cat :scared: It's reading things like that that makes me realise how lucky I am to have been able to catproof the garden :shy:
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lucky Dinky. Lets hope the owners do as they say
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I know Helen - it is scary, Dinkys owners were really grateful and bought my Sister a big box of chocolates - they genuinely didnt think she was in any danger being out at night but knowing my sister she will have soon put them right. I have had a little chuckle at the thought of my sister charging down the street in the middle of the night shouting and waving her arms at a Fox. She doesnt live in a rural area either :scared: so the Fox is obviously a "town" fox and probably feeding cubs
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Glad Dinky is ok, hope her owners keep her in at night from now on. Poor thing must have got such a fright.
That said foxes are cunning things and will dig to get to what they want. I know of a breeder who had a fox get into her NFCs outdoor run. The cats attacked the fox and it had to be put to sleep as a result as it was so severely injured :(
Thankfully we've only had a fox in our garden once (we're rural), Boopy was out in the run and threw herself at the mesh growling and going nuts at it and the poor thing ran off sharpish! Now they just lurk along the back of our garden catching rabbits.