A fox cub has been pulled out of the River Ouse in York by one of the York Rescue Boat team.<\/p>\n
At 5am (Mon 13 July) whilst out for an early morning walk, Mark Mullen and a friend, heard a splash in the Kings Staith area.<\/p>\n
He told YorkMix Radio more: \u201cWorking for the rescue boat as a volunteer, I was concerned by that splash, so we ran over and had a look, and there was a little fox cub, that we\u2019d seen earlier on, which had fallen into the river and was unable to swim. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe just managed to get to some high ground, but he couldn\u2019t swim any further. He or she, we don\u2019t know whether it was male or female, couldn\u2019t get out. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy concern was that members of the public would go in to get him, which obviously brings its own risks. We might have ended up with a York Rescue Boat job for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark also said that of course he couldn\u2019t leave the animal there in the water anyway so had to take action.<\/p>\n
Mark continued: \u201cI went and got my rescue kit (He lives close by) got my dry suit on, swam round. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe was very compliant. He came to me when I called him, and I grabbed hold of him, put him in a little bag, and we hauled him up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lady had come over. She\u2019d seen it all unfolding from the apartments opposite. I\u2019d brought my towel from home, my bath towel. She\u2019d brought a bath towel too, and we wrapped him up, got him dried off, and she took him off to go to the vet.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe just sat there. He was really calm, and it was like having a pet. He wasn\u2019t like a wild animal. Apparently, doing really well, and they\u2019re hoping to release him shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fox cub has been pulled out of the River Ouse in York by one of the York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-691034","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\/691034","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=691034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}