Nov. 19 (UPI) — An animal rescuer in Britain was dispatched to an Amazon depot to remove a fox found trapped in the engine department of a delivery van.
The RSPCA said Inspector Herchy Boal was dispatched to the Amazon depot in Derby after a driver for the company spotted a warning light on his dashboard and checked the engine to find a fox hiding among the mechanical components.
Boal was able to manipulate the fox into a safer position and extract her from the engine.
The engine warning light turned out to have been triggered by the fox chewing on some wires.
The fox will eventually be returned to the wild. Photo courtesy of the RSPCA
The animal was taken to a local veterinarian to be treated for a wound on her tail and a minor burn on her back leg.
“Being trapped in a hot engine could have ended very differently for this young fox — but thankfully her injuries were minor and she’s expected to make a full recovery,” Boal said in an RSPCA news release. “We have no idea how long she’d been in the engine for — potentially, she could have had a long and scary journey trapped in there — so it was a relief to get to her in time.”
Boal said the fox will be returned to the wild once she makes a full recovery.