Urban fox numbers in London are thought to be a high percentage of the overall UK population. Two nine-month-old babies were hospitalised after appearing to be mauled by a fox as they slept in cots in their home in Hackney , West London, United Kingdom. The attack happened on Saturday at 22:00 BST (21:00 UTC). It is thought the fox entered through an open door on the ground floor of the house, which was located beside Victoria Park . The babies' mother, Pauline Koupparis, spoke of her shock to hear and see the foxes in her house to local BBC radio station London 94.9: "It's something I would never have expected to happen — let alone to us and my beautiful girls. It was quite muffled but very pained. I went into the room and I saw some blood in Isabella's cot, I thought she had a nosebleed. I put on the light, I saw the fox, it just looked at me and it wasn't even scared of me. I started screaming as I realised Lola was also covered in blood."
Urban fox numbers in London are thought to be a high percentage of the overall UK population. Two nine-month-old babies were hospitalised after appearing to be mauled by a fox as they slept in cots in their home in , West London, United Kingdom. The attack happened on Saturday at 22:00 (21:00 UTC). It is thought the fox entered through an open door on the ground floor of the house, which was located beside . The babies' mother, Pauline Koupparis, spoke of her shock to hear and see the foxes in her house to local radio station London 94.9: "It's something I would never have expected to happen — let alone to us and my beautiful girls. It was quite muffled but very pained. I went into the room and I saw some blood in Isabella's cot, I thought she had a nosebleed. I put on the light, I saw the fox, it just looked at me and it wasn't even scared of me. I started screaming as I realised Lola was also covered in blood."
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