Big George hissed relentlessly at the fox invading his bed but the fox refused to budge (Picture: National News)

A ginger cat was left horrified today after his bed was invaded by an urban fox.

George, an enormous male ginger, was enjoying a night-time walk in the garden when the fox took advantage of his absence to take up residence in his bed.

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The unwelcome squatter was discovered by George’s human Meloney Blaze, 47, who said George attempted to get rid of the fox by hissing relentlessly at it – but the fox refused to budge.

Eventually, Meloney, 47, from Petts Wood, south east London, plucked up the courage to pick up the bed and tip the fox out of the window.




She 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.

Meloney Blazye from Petts Wood, south east London was stunned to find the ‘unwelcome squatter’ in her cat’s bed (Picture: National News)

‘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.

‘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.’

Meloney says she considered grabbing a cooking implement to move the fox – but was concerned about using a tool on wild animal.

She eventually managed to move him out the window, but he left behind an ‘awful smell’.

Meloney 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.’