A pet-owner was stunned to wake up and find a fox in her cat’s bed instead of her beloved puss.
Meloney Blayze, 47, got out of bed at 6am to let her cat George back in from the garden when she saw an animal with disturbingly large ears through the darkness.
The bank worker took a double take as she glanced over at her kitchen window, where she was expecting to see George in his basket.
He was sat outside but started hissing at the ‘unwelcome squatter’ as soon as he was allowed back in the house in Petts Wood, south east London.
Meloney Blayze, 47, got out of bed at 6am to let her cat George (pictured left) back in from the garden when she saw an animal with disturbingly large ears through the darkness – it turned out to be an urban fox (pictured right) squatting in his basket
The 47-year-old said: ‘I woke at 4am to let George out the kitchen window, as he goes onto the roof into the garden, and then went back to sleep until 6am.
‘When I came downstairs, and walked passed the kitchen into the bathroom, I did a double take as in the kitchen window I could see a pair of huge ears.
‘I thought, ‘hmm those are not the cat’s ears’, and I turned the light on to look at what was in the cat’s bed and it was a fox.
‘He was very tame, he did not want to leave.
The bank worker (pictured) took a double take as she glanced over at her kitchen window, where she was expecting to see George in his basket
‘George was outside the window and was not impressed, I had to let him in the bathroom window.
‘He jumped on the side and leapt into action and was telling the fox off – he was even hissing at him, but the fox just looked at him.’
She even confessed to considering hitting the animal with a saucepan, but decided against it.
The executive banking assistant was eventually forced to move the fox, despite his ‘awful smell’.
She added: ‘It was like an unwelcome squatter.
‘I kept tapping the bed but backing away as it’s a wild dog and I did not want to upset it as it could bite for all I knew.
‘Eventually, I managed to tip the bed and it went out the window.
‘I quickly shut the window and it stood outside the window looking in.
‘It was a very good-looking fox but stinky, and it frightened the life out of me.
‘I guess it must have got its bottom on my sofa for a while as it stank and I had to clean everything.
‘It is the most awful smell, I am lucky I had shut my bedroom door or I could have woken up with that on my bed.’
She said the fox was ‘an unwelcome squatter’ and left ‘an awful smell’ behind when he left