The RSPCA_official are asking people to store sports netting when it's not in use
After a little fox cub was strangled to death in a back garden football net, the RSPCA is renewing its warning of the dangers to wildlife netting presents.
“Their mother - the vixen - had been watching helplessly as one of her cubs gave up his fight for life.“That was the second incident in just one week I’d attended to help entangled baby foxes and my colleagues are also reporting they are being called out to multiple netting incidents. It’s really important that people understand how lethal football netting can be and how often these incidents happen.
In just one week in May, a Surrey-based RSPCA officer attended six separate entangled fox cub incidents - one of which sadly ended in another death - and the peak months of June and July are likely to be even worse. “Getting tangled up in netting is very stressful for an animal, particularly one that’s wild. And if the animal gets seriously entangled, netting - whether it’s used for sports, fencing or the garden - can cause severe injuries or - as seen recently - even death.“As wild animals frequently get trapped during the night, they may have been struggling for many hours by the time they are found in the morning and often need veterinary attention and sedation to cut them free.