Firefighters were forced to smash through the brickwork on a garage in Leicester after the 12-week-old cubs<\/a> got stuck between two walls on Easter Sunday, April 5.<\/p>\n Rescue teams were called to Letchworth Road after receiving reports from neighbors saying they could hear a fox crying in distress.<\/p>\n Crews were stunned to discover three young cubs wedged in a 6-inch (15cm) gap before lifting them to safety.<\/p>\n The young foxes have since been cared for by Leicestershire Wildlife Hospital where staff nursed them back to full health.<\/p>\n The trio was set free all together at an undisclosed location last week.<\/p>\n Sharing footage on social media, the hospital said: “The three cubs have been in our care, learning all the essential skills needed for life back in the wild – enjoying digging and searching for their food, alongside lots of enrichment.<\/p>\n “Last week, it was time for their release. Here, they are being support fed for a while until they have adjusted to life back in the wild!”<\/p>\n The cheeky cubs<\/a> had run down a small gap between two houses, but the gap had continued to narrow.<\/p>\n One of them had to be given oxygen therapy, using a specialist mask for small animals.<\/p>\n Amy Blower, team leader at the charity, told the BBC: “One of them was particularly poorly and was on oxygen overnight at a local vet’s and it wasn’t certain if it would pull through, but thankfully it did.<\/p>\n “They’ve been digging holes like they would dig a den, so we knew they’d be capable of building their own in the wild.<\/p>\n “They will be support fed for a minimum of two weeks until they’ve adjusted to finding their own food.<\/p>\n “It was quite an exhilarating feeling seeing them go back into the wild.<\/p>\n “All of our volunteers have worked really hard to get them to that point.<\/p>\n “It’s obviously a feeling of relief and excitement for their future out there as well.”<\/p>\n A spokesperson for Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service said previously: “Our Technical Rescue Team from Southern Station were called to a house on Letchworth Road in Leicester, where a fox could be heard trapped between two buildings.<\/p>\n “They were given permission to remove brickwork from the garage by the homeowner, and found not one, not two, but three trapped cubs.<\/p>\n “All were recovered safely, with one given oxygen therapy via our specialist mask for small animals, and were then left with the RSPCA for treatment. What a fantastic result.<\/p>\n “Remember – never attempt to rescue an animal in distress if it means putting yourself in danger – always contact the appropriate animal rescue organization.”<\/p>\n The post Firefighters rescue three fox cubs trapped between houses<\/a> appeared first on Talker<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Ed Chatterton Three orphaned fox cubs were released back into the wild four months after they became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[249757,249755,3065,181940,249756,90,97404,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-756448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-amy-blower","tag-ed-chatterton","tag-fed","tag-leicestershire-fire-and-rescue-service","tag-leicestershire-wildlife-hospital","tag-science","tag-swns","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756448","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=756448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"(SWNS)\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/talker_news_345\/7e61d8543a0f5af59f7a1ee211d14af9.png\"\/)
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