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Special Events
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LITTLE FOXES 2022 CALENDAR
Our Little Foxes 2022 calendar
is now available! Each month shows a picture of one
of the many beautiful creatures we have helped. All charities are struggling due to Covid-19 so this is yet another way to
help us! Many thanks!
FOX ANGELS FOUNDATION AWARD
"...For all your wonderful work with sick
and injured wildlife."
We couldn't do it without your support! 
LITTLE FURRY FOX CUB
If you
are buying Christmas presents for young children, please consider this lovely little book.  The writer Sherry Christie, has dedicated this book to us, Little Foxes, a gesture that I find incredibly touching. Sherry
set up Books for Wildlife specifically to raise funds for wildlife, and promote a love of wildlife in children. At least £1
from every book sold will be donated to Little Foxes. (Available from Amazon and bookshops, £8.75).
The
illustrations, by Patricia Chatterley, are absolutely delightful, and enhance the sweet story of a little fox cub who gets
into trouble through being adventurous, but ends up safely back with his family.
It’s enchanting, and I am so pleased
that this book will show foxes in an endearing way, in contrast to so many children’s books which have traditionally
portrayed the fox as a villain.
Please do buy this book! It will help foxes, enchant children, and
help us to carry on our work of saving and rehabilitating wildlife, in particular the many orphans that find their way to
us every year.
LATEST ARRIVAL
 Yesterday we took in this rare albino hedgehog, who is just a youngster. He is in the care of our long-term
fosterer Carol, and she has done a wonderful job in reviving this little chap, who was freezing cold when admitted.
She rehydrated him and got him warm and cosy, and was rewarded by seeing him tuck into some food last evening. What
a beautiful little animal!
"FOXY BAKE" RAISES MONEY FOR LITTLE FOXES  A HUGE thank you to the Reception Class at Soho Parish Primary School in London.
Shirley and the
children (and their parents!) organised a "Foxy Bake"
and raised £135.47 for Little Foxes!
 
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RECENT ARRIVALS
 This shy little cub was found with her dead mother on a road in London. She is now recovering from her
trauma. She is very sweet and is starting to come out of her shell.  This little gosling was caught by a cat, but was luckily rescued and is doing well at Little Foxes. He will
be joining a group of ducklings soon, so that he has some company.
OUR FIRST FOX CUBS OF THE YEAR!
 At the end of March our first fox cub arrived. Thankfully, he was in good condition.
His family was attacked by a terrier,
and he was the only survivor.
A few days later our fox cub numbers increased to six!
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ROE DEER FAWN
 This lovely little roe deer fawn is being looked after by Helen, one of Little Foxes' fosterers.
She was very weak and hungry when she came in but is now feeding well and has settled in under Helen’s patient care.
For more pictures visit to our Facebook page.
BFF
 Elmo and Bobby, two of this year's cubs, enjoying each other's company!
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GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER
 This is the third great spotted woodpecker orphan that has been reared and successfully released by Little
Foxes this summer.
This little chap flew out of the aviary to his freedom this morning, on Midsummer’s
Day.
BARN OWL
 This barn owl came in severely malnourished. After three weeks of good food and rest, he was successfully released from the
sanctuary. He was not returned to where he was found as his malnutrition was most likely due to competition.
His time in an aviary at Little Foxes familiarised him with a new territory into which he was released, and food
is being provided for the time being until he has had a chance to establish properly in his new territory.
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OUR FIRST FOX CUB OF 2016
Here are some photos of little Elsie, our first orphan cub of 2016.
She came to us
on 21st March. She was found in the early hours of the morning on the road beside her dead mother who had been killed by a
car.
She is doing very well and no doubt will soon be joined by more little friends...
FOX VS CAT DEBATE
Penny was recently interviewed by cat behaviourist Anita Kelsey for an article in Your Cat
magazine about the relationship between cats and urban foxes.
Click here to download this article.
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THE LAUGHING POLICEMAN
A police officer rang Little Foxes from Essex one Saturday afternoon in March. He and his colleague
were securing an empty house that had been burgled, and they found a fox and cubs inside! We must have had twenty calls/texts between us, as I guided him through what to do. The vixen was released
from the house, and she very quickly moved her cubs away to a safer place – she was given the opportunity by the cubs
being placed in a drawer and put in the garden. The police officer was clearly delighted to see
her lift each cub out and take it elsewhere. He sent me this marvellous picture. I wrote
to the Inspector and congratulated her on having such kind officers!
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WELL DONE CHANNEL 4!
 I must say that I was very apprehensive about the recent Channel 4 programmes about foxes (Urban Foxes Live), but I was very
pleasantly surprised. I won’t say I was happy with every single detail, but I felt that overall they had shown
great sympathy and affection for the fox.It was a real pleasure to watch a bloke from the “Fieldsports Channel”
absolutely squirming under scrutiny from studio guests (including Brian May) over a revolting video his channel had posted,
in which (believe it or not) they had put a dead piglet in a baby grow and placed it in a pushchair, and a fox duly came along
and investigated, and removed the piglet from its babygro and took it off to eat, whereupon they claimed this was evidence
that foxes eat babies!!! It was a joy to see this dirty
trick shown up for what it was. At the end of this debate, they reported that their survey showed that no less than 95% of
people liked foxes better as a result of watching the programmes! Chew on that, Fieldsports Channel!
I think they have done fox welfare some real good, and helped a great deal to redress some of the recent malicious
lies spread about foxes.How nice at last to have some fairness shown to the foxes. It was very clear from this programme
that foxes do exert a real fascination for many people, and it showed how there really is something special about foxes, something
very difficult to put into words, but those of us who are under their spell know how incredibly funny,intelligent and endearing
foxes really are.
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LUSCIOUS, LOVELY LITTLE FOXES (from
the Spring 2008 Newsletter)
Oh yes. They’re here again. The heartbreakers, the heart melters,
the heart warmers, the heart stoppers. The fox cubs.
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At the time of writing, we have five
cubs in, and they are a varied selection. Firstly, let me tell you about the two most fragile ones.
A lady in the Isle of Wight found a badly injured fox in the garden. At a loss to know what to do, she
rang a pest controller to come and help. Luckily, she chose a pest controller who did not kill foxes, and another
stroke of luck was that he took his wife with him. When they arrived, the poor fox had died of her injuries. From underneath
the shed came the thin sound of tiny cubs whimpering. They retrieved five very tiny little cubs, all males.
The wife of the pest controller, Michelle, decided to take
them home and try and look after them until she found someone who would take them on. She did a fantastic
job for five days, using her previous experience of rearing kittens. She found Little Foxes on the internet, and contacted
me two days after the rescue. Three days later she travelled up with the cubs.
Sadly, by this time things were starting to go wrong, and one
cub died shortly after arrival. Two more followed the next day. They were clearly succumbing as they were
so very tiny, and had had little or no mother’s milk.
After very intensive care I am pleased to say the
remaining two cubs are currently doing well, although it is still too soon to feel over confident. I
believe their mother may have been hit by a car, managed to return to the earth, and given birth perhaps a couple of days
prematurely, and then soon afterwards crept out of the earth and tragically died.
Shortly after these cubs arrived, we took
in a sweet little female cub who was found all alone, and was not claimed by her mother despite being left out in a box,
with a hot water bottle for warmth, for several hours. She has been called Elsa because on arrival she looked like a
little lion cub. She cried for about two days solid, even continuing while she was eating, and only stopped
when picked up and comforted. She then settled happily and displayed her sunny nature.
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A fews days later Gabriel arrived (so
named because he is such a little angel), and he didn’t cry at all, he just filled his tum up to the very top with milk
at every opportunity and then went fast asleep again. On arrival, he was absolutely exhausted, and fell asleep
in my hand as I was writing out his record card. He had been found in a barn, trying to force his way into
solid hay bales. He also was not claimed by a parent, and we think perhaps he had got left behind when
the litter was moved by the vixen, as there had been disturbance in the barn as large hay bales were being moved
by the farmer.
Our fifth little chap is Calico, and is much bigger than the others, probably
having been born at the beginning of February or even late January. He had been hit by a car, and staggered
into a garden where he collapsed. He had a head injury, but after two days of being extremely weak, he has
responded to fluid therapy and regular doses of Arnica for his bruising, and has over the last few days made a marvellous
recovery. He is now able to stand and walk about, although he is still a little bit wobbly. He can also now
feed from a bowl, and is somewhat confused about where he is and what on earth has happened to him. I shall
be glad when he has a companion of a similar size as that will settle him down better than anything else.
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