{"id":425242,"date":"2026-02-14T10:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425242\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T10:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:53:07","slug":"mission-to-tackle-prolific-thieving-by-leather-fetish-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/425242\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission to tackle prolific thieving by &#8216;leather fetish&#8217; foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arvind said the &#8220;light-fingered gingers&#8221; are not only &#8220;very prolific&#8221; across the city but have taken up residence in thousands of back gardens in BS5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They do a lot of thievery,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arvind said while she had found &#8220;several shoes&#8221;, it was only after becoming the victim of a fox with a &#8220;fetish for shoes&#8221; herself that she realised the extent of the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She later set up the support group after seeing various missing shoe posts on Facebook and often seeing &#8220;odd shoes lying around in the street&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I thought, wouldn&#8217;t it be great if we could reunite people with their missing footwear,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arvind said the &#8220;light-fingered gingers&#8221; are not only &#8220;very prolific&#8221; across the city but have taken up residence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-425242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}