Fox cub reunited with mother after getting trapped in drainpipe

[The fox cub in the arms of his rescuer (left) and reunited with mother / YouTube]

When a baby fox fell into a drainpipe in Bexhill, England earlier this month, rescuers from the East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service got to work trying to save the little creature.

And while they worked to rescue the cub, mother fox hovered near by, watching anxiously as everything unfolded.

“We were amazed that the vixen turned up whilst we were trying to find the cub and it was almost as if she knew we were trying to rescue her,” Chris Riddington, the organization’s rescue manager, said in a news release.

The team could hear the cub inside the drainage but couldn’t see it. According to the press release, they ended up using a camera phone to try to locate the baby fox, before attempting to push the cub out.

They came to the conclusion that the cub was in a section of the pipe that couldn’t be reached using rods.

“We didn’t want to give up, and we knew that if the cub was left it would die,” Riddington said.

After a few hours, one of the rescue workers laid his arm near the hole and was suddenly able to feel the baby fox. Eventually, he grabbed the cub’s tail and gently lifted him out of the drain.

The fox, soaking wet and dirty, was taken back to the animal centre for a bath beforebeing reunited with his mom.

Within minutes of returning back, the mother fox walked over to the pet carrier, where the cub was placed in. As soon as the cub realized his mother was nearby “he was so excited and desperately wanted to get out of the carrier.”

“With some help from mum he managed to climb out and mum escorted him back home again,” Riddington said. “It was unbelievably emotional for all of us.”