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Fox attacks five-week old baby

16 February Daily Telegraph

The fox which attacked a five-week-old baby saw him as a piece of chicken, the child's mother has claimed.Hayley Cawley, 28, heard Dennie screaming and was forced to hit and kick the wild animal as it tried to drag her son from their home.But the more she hit it the more it pulled the baby, so she grabbed hold of Dennie's wrist and "tore" his hand from the fox's jaws, Miss Cawley told The Sun.She had left the child propped up on the sofa as she nipped upstairs, but came running down when she heard his screams and found him being attacked at their home in Bromley, South East London.

He was spattered with blood and his head was banging against the wall as the animal dragged him toward the front door by his left hand, she said.The animal became trapped as Dennie's head was lodged in the corner of the door frame at their wo-bedroom council house, and Miss Cawley began kicking and hitting it, she said."I was screaming, 'Help me!' I got hold of Dennie's wrist and I tore it out of the fox's mouth. I had no other choice," she said."Its teeth were all showing and it was making this awful noise, hissing and growling."She picked the child up and shut the door, but fears if she had been seconds later she never would have seen her baby again."The fox would have found a way of getting him out of that door. It saw Dennie as a 10lb piece of chicken to eat," she told The Sun.Too afraid to look at Dennie's bleeding hand she rang 999 and told them that "a fox had attacked my baby and I thought he was going to die".

Dennie was rushed to King's College Hospital, in Camberwell, and Miss Cawley said he "looked like a ghost".She and her partner Paul Dolan, 27, were told two of his arteries had been severed.He was then taken to the Evelina Children's Hospital where surgeons operated for five hours to reattach his finger. There is a 70 per cent chance he will never recover full use of his finger.The front door had been left ajar, the family believe, when Mr Dolan left to collect the two older children from school and slammed it shut, meaning the latch did not catch.Dennie is now back with his parents. They are too afraid to return home and have been re-housed temporarily. When she went back to collect some belongings a fox appeared at the front door.

 

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