Baby foxes in London getting tangled in garden netting with one found dead

The RSPCA is warning Londoners to get rid of 'dangerous' netting after a tangled-up fox cub died and cats and birds had to be rescued. The animal welfare charity says it regularly rescues both wild and domestic animals tangled up in netting across the city.

They revealed that one unfortunate fox cub died after becoming strangled by old pigeon netting in West London. Several other cubs had to be saved from the same netting, while cats and jays have also been discovered trapped in nets.

The RSPCA is now calling on Londoners to replace any garden netting with a solid meshed material instead.

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Animal Rescue Officer (ARO) Jade Guthrie explained: "Netted fencing and netting used for gardening or in sport can be really dangerous for animals.

"We would urge those using netting for sports to remove and store all nets after their game and put any discarded or old netting safely in a bin.

"Any garden netting, such as pond netting, should be replaced with solid metal mesh."

In Ealing, a fox cub died after becoming trapped in old pigeon netting by its neck earlier this month.

RSPCA officers were called a further two times to the same location to rescue other fox cubs similarly tied up, which are now recuperating at the South Essex Wildlife Hospital.

Ms Guthrie was also recently called out to rescue a cat that had got tangled up in a net in Carshalton, South London, and again to rescue two jays that got trapped under bird netting at a private residence in Kensington.

ARO Holly Walker was called on to rescue a tiny fox cub whose head was stuck through football netting at a school in Harpenden, Herts., whilst Inspector Dale Grant had to cut free a fox cub that had her tail tangled in netting in Finchley in North London.

To mark its 200th anniversary, the RSPCA has launched a new For Every Kind campaign, urging people to care about the lives of every animal and carry out one million acts of kindness.