{"id":771436,"date":"2026-09-15T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771436\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:46:21","slug":"fox-freed-after-it-became-stuck-in-lantern-in-rickmansworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771436\/","title":{"rendered":"Fox freed after it became stuck in lantern in Rickmansworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The unfortunate animal had been spotted at the back of a Rickmansworth home after the noise woke residents early in the morning of August 6.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After the couple called the Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital, experienced volunteer wildlife rescuers were dispatched and transported it back to the Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, site.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Vets gave the fox pain relief and antibiotics before carefully cutting it free, then kept it comfortable with food and water in the large mammals ward.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An X-ray and full health check under anaesthetic the next day found only minor sores, which were treated.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The fox after being rescued at Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital (Image: Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  After a few weeks at the hospital, the fox fully recovered and has been released at the same location because foxes need familiar territory for food and shelter.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital highlighted that its rescuers are trained in handling wild animals and warns against members of the public handling any large wild animals, especially when they are stressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The unfortunate animal had been spotted at the back of a Rickmansworth home after the noise woke residents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-771436","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\/771436","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=771436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}