{"id":684183,"date":"2026-07-10T12:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:23:09","slug":"litter-warning-as-fox-cubs-head-stuck-in-plastic-bottle-for-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684183\/","title":{"rendered":"Litter warning as fox cub&#8217;s head stuck in plastic bottle for days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The fox was initially taken to the University of Glasgow&#8217;s small animal hospital, where his wound was cleaned and he was given pain relief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was taken to the Scottish SPCA&#8217;s rescue centre at Fishcross the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An animal rescue officer said: &#8220;This fox was incredibly fortunate. Had we not managed to catch him, the injuries caused by the bottle could have become life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sadly, this isn&#8217;t an isolated incident. Every year, we see wild animals injured, trapped or killed by discarded litter. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Something as simple as taking your rubbish home or disposing of it properly can prevent animals suffering in this way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity has since been giving the fox daily treatment for the wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last month it issued a warning that litter can have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottishspca.org\/news\/wildlife-paying-the-price-for-human-carelessness-2026\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;devastating&#8221; and potentially fatal consequences, external<\/a> for wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Between 2023 and 2025, the charity responded to almost 109,000 wildlife incidents, many involving animals injured or put at risk by human activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It urged people to dispose of litter responsibly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fox was initially taken to the University of Glasgow&#8217;s small animal hospital, where his wound was cleaned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-684183","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\/684183","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=684183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}