{"id":296167,"date":"2025-11-20T03:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296167\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T03:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T03:13:07","slug":"look-amazon-driver-finds-fox-trapped-in-engine-of-delivery-van","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296167\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Amazon driver finds fox trapped in engine of delivery van"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 19 (UPI) &#8212; An animal rescuer in Britain was dispatched to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Amazoncom\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Amazon\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon<\/a> depot to remove a fox found trapped in the engine department of a delivery van.<\/p>\n<p>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.\n<\/p>\n<p>Boal was able to manipulate the fox into a safer position and extract her from the engine.<\/p>\n<p>The engine warning light turned out to have been triggered by the fox chewing on some wires.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ph1.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; aspect-ratio: attr(width) \/ attr(height); height: auto;\" width=\"600\" height=\"430\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The fox will eventually be returned to the wild. Photo courtesy of the RSPCA<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being trapped in a hot engine could have ended very differently for this young fox &#8212; but thankfully her injuries were minor and she&#8217;s expected to make a full recovery,&#8221; Boal said in an RSPCA news release. &#8220;We have no idea how long she&#8217;d been in the engine for &#8212; potentially, she could have had a long and scary journey trapped in there &#8212; so it was a relief to get to her in time.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Boal said the fox will be returned to the wild once she makes a full recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 19 (UPI) &#8212; An animal rescuer in Britain was dispatched to an Amazon depot to remove a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[2574,1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-296167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-funny","13":"tag-odd","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-weird","16":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}