Bite victim is lucky it was just a fox that entered her home
This week Jodie Nailard showed the world the six puncture wounds she received from a fox after it crept into her flat through open patio doors and bit her.
“My left bicep was throbbing with pain and covered in blood, and I wondered what the hell had happened,” Ms Nailard told a newspaper. “I’m just glad it didn’t go for my face.”
The 22-year-old was vaccinated against rabies, tetanus and polio, and is now recovering at her home in south London.
I happen to live around the corner from the victim of this vulpine creature, and the most astonishing bit of the story to me is not that she was bitten, but that she chose to sleep with her patio doors open.
An idyllic slice of the English countryside Clapham is not. The other night we were rudely awoken by some men on mopeds crashing into an office across the road.
In fact, if I were Ms Nailard, I’d count my blessings that a fox was the only thing that trespassed into my home as I slept.