fox plague in London: "Gone to the taste of blood"
Since then, a fox attacked two infants has is the whole of London into turmoil.
Above all tabloids are calling for the hunt on - and getting unexpected support.
You have been spotted in Downing Street and outside Buckingham Palace. A copy even laced through the lens of a surveillance camera at the National Gallery: Foxes are in the city of London now, nor imagine how the pigeons in Trafalgar Square. Uncertain is how many of them there are: estimates vary widely - 30000-225000 animals.
Strong emotions have not triggered the city foxes so far. For some, they are a droll enrichment of the capital-fauna, for others an annoying pest, because they pounce on garbage bags at night and scatter their contents in spacious gardens and garage entrances.
But since then a fox, two infants in her own bed attacked, the image has deteriorated dramatically the redcoats. From all over sudden fox attacks are reported, particularly the London tabloid press is behaving as if a herd had broken out man-eating lions from the Regents Park Zoo.
With "steely gaze," the fox was staring at them after he had bitten her twin girls Isabella and Lola in his arms and face, for example, cites the Sun tabloid, the mother of the injured children. He had no fear of it, protested Pauline Koupparis. When they finally had him scared but wanted to have a neighbor saw him again wanted to go back into the house, "He scratched at the porch door, as if he had gotten a taste of blood."
Assess fox experts, however, the incident that occurred in the East London borough of Hackney, as an extremely rare case. "It is very unlikely that a fox deliberately attacking a child, let alone two," said Martin about Hemmington by an organization whose existence was previously known probably only to the initiated: the National Society for the welfare of foxes.
Hemmington suspected that the fox scared, could well be panicking and had bitten so. "But I do not understand why he is twice panic," he wondered. From a "tragic combination of a warm night, an open patio door, and a naive three-to four-month fox cubs," said the fox expert John Bryant. At least one new detail he confided to the astonished public: The fox was probably lured by the smell of dirty diapers in the first floor of the terrace house.
Politicians, led by London Mayor Boris Johnson, now a tougher crackdown against the urban foxes demand . "They may look cute, but they are just but a nuisance," said Johnson.
Gloating tones sound while in the country. Britain's farmers and minor gentry have forgotten the previous Labour government, never have they banned the traditional fox hunting with dogs and horsemen. conquer The fact that the foxes now not only the cities but even the houses there as a habitat, they see it as an act of poetic justice.
