Man Saves Puppies But Quickly Realizes His Big Mistake

A man was cleaning the garden when he picked up an old mattress and found 5 puppies. He took them to the animal shelter, but only a week later they found out what they really were and couldn’t believe their eyes.

Paul McDonald, a local rescuer with Freshfields Animal Rescue was called in by Hemmington to assist with the release of the cubs. He had some surprising advice about baby foxes. "Fox cubs don't initially look like foxes when they are cubs, so it's common for people to mistake them for dog puppies," Paul McDonald, also known as The Fox Man, explained. "They are brown in color as opposed to the red, ginger color of adults." And he explained how it was that they got to be found all alone under a mattress too, "Vixens leave their cubs all the time whilst they are in the den, and as they get older they'll begin to explore their surroundings more and more, and become less dependent on mum as they get older," McDonald said. Because the pups were newborns they would have to find their mother. That was the number one priority.