Woman mauled by fox that sneaked into her bedroom
A WOMAN has described how she woke up covered in blood when a fox crept into her bedroom in the middle of the night and bit her.
Jodie Nailard, 22, said she was left “traumatised” by the experience after waking up with a start when she felt a sharp pain in her arm.
Miss Nailard, a personal assistant, told how she left a tiny gap in the patio doors in her ground floor flat in south London. She suffered six puncture wounds to her arm after the attack, and feared she had contracted rabies.
“There is no way I am opening the door again at night. I am traumatised by the experience. I haven’t slept since the attack,” she said.
“I can’t be in the bedroom by myself at night any more. I’m just scared it will come back.”
Figures suggest that the number of urban foxes in towns and cities have quadrupled since the Eighties.
Researchers from Brighton and Reading universities have suggested there are now likely to be more red foxes per square mile in urban areas than there are in the countryside.