What the FOX that? ‘Petrified’ couple wake to find a bushy-tailed intruder in the bedroom watching them sleep – before it caused chaos in the bathroom
- Beth Pinfield, from South Littleton, and her beau Liam were petrified by a fox
- The couple woke up to discover a fox was watching them sleep at 5am
- The fury intruder broke into their bedroom – before trashing the bathroom
- Liam, 28, shared the video on TikTok and it racked up more than 4.3million views
A ‘petrified’ couple reveal they woke in the night to find a fox watching them sleep after it broke into their house.
Beth Pinfield, from South Littleton, Worcestershire, woke up thinking her cat Salem was ‘making a racket’ at 5am on Monday but after a panicked double-take she spotted a large fox peering at her through the darkness.
The 27-year-old woke boyfriend Liam Ibbotson up to help her evict the unwanted house guest but his scream spooked the fox.
Beth Pinfield, from South Littleton, Worcestershire, and her boyfriend Liam Ibbotson claim they were woken up to discover a fox watching them sleep after the four-legged intruder broke into their bedroom
Dashing into the bathroom, the fox swiped two shelves off the wall, knocked over plants and even urinated all over the floor, leaving a stench that lingered for days.
In an hilarious clip, the four-legged trespasser can be seen perched on hairdressing apprentice Beth’s bathroom windowsill surrounded by fallen plants, broken shelves and even Beth’s fake tan bottles.
After groundsman Liam, 28, shared the video on TikTok, it racked up more than 4.3million views and more than 400,000 likes and comments.
Beth said: ‘At first, it was sat in the bedroom window sill. I woke up, looked and I was like ‘is that a fox?’ I double looked.’
Dashing into the bathroom, the furry critter swiped two shelves off the wall, knocked over plants and even urinated all over the floor, leaving a stench that lingered for days
In an hilarious clip, the four-legged trespasser can be seen perched on hairdressing apprentice Beth’s bathroom windowsill surrounded by fallen plants, broken shelves and even Beth’s fake tan bottles
‘I thought I was dreaming. Our cat normally scrambles up on the windowsill so I first thought ‘what on earth are the cats doing they’re making a racket’ but it wasn’t the cat, it was a big fox.
‘It’s not something you expect to wake up to at 5am on a Monday morning.
‘Liam was petrified to be honest. His first reaction was to scream at it. I’d just woke him up at 5am and there was a fox staring at us.
‘That freaked the fox out so it then legged it into the bathroom and was trying to find a way to get out.
‘It completely trashed the bathroom and god knows what else is in there because it still smells, we can’t get rid of it.
‘It knocked a few shelves off in the bathroom, knocked a plant over and left a smell. I think it had a wee in the bathroom.
After Liam let out a yelp at the unexpected sight, the fox then ‘legged it’ into their bathroom and trashed the room – destroying everything in its path
‘It’s not pleasant. We’ve bleached it and everything but we can still smell it. It’s driving us mad.’
The couple had just renovated their kitchen and created a makeshift cat flap for their 11-month-old black kitten but had no idea other creatures might find their way inside.
They believe the inquisitive fox had squeezed his way through the cat flap or an open window, trotted through their kitchen and straight up their stairs.
Beth said: ‘We’d literally just decorated the kitchen and I was hoping it hadn’t destroyed the kitchen but luckily it didn’t.
‘We have a cat flap, which we had to build ourselves so whether it came through that, I don’t know.
‘It either came through there or we had a window open downstairs, it might have come through there.
‘Our cat survived. The cat was more interested in guarding its food than the fact there was a fox in the house.
The couple said that the bathroom still stinks of urine after the inquisitive fox trashed the room
‘The fox just came straight upstairs and watched us sleep. I don’t know how long it’d been there – that’s the worrying part.’
After Liam let out a yelp at the unexpected sight, the fox then ‘legged it’ into their bathroom and trashed the room, destroying everything in its path.
Beth said: ‘This went on for half an hour with us trying to get the fox out. It stayed in the bathroom on the windowsill.
‘We tried to find a way to get him out, we tried to coax him out but it wasn’t having any of it.
‘Where I live, the bathroom opens up onto the roof of the kitchen. We managed to get it out once Liam had got the courage to open the window next to it and off it went.
‘It jumped out of the bathroom, onto the roof and into the garden. I wasn’t so pleased about it shoving my tan in the sink, there was fake tan everywhere too.
Beth said they had just decorated the kitchen and she was hoping it hadn’t destroyed the kitchen but luckily it didn’t
‘I wasn’t very supportive to be honest, I just couldn’t hold myself together. Liam grabbed the broom and thought he’d be able to open the window with that.
‘We found it quite funny that he was talking to it, talking about the handle and the fox is just looking at him.
‘He does look quite small on the video but he was actually quite big, about the size of a medium-sized dog.’
Commenting from his TikTok account, Liam added he feared the fox was after their guinea pigs.
Liam wrote: ‘Best part was my cat was downstairs guarding his food. Looks like he had his priorities.
‘I bravely opened the window by hand before the fox left a smell that still won’t go away.
‘So I opened the window to our kitchen extension and he yeeted [threw] himself safely off the roof. We have guinea pigs so I think he might have been after them.
‘My girlfriend woke me up at 5 am to tell me ‘there’s a fox’. I sat up and low and behold there he was just staring at me in the dark. I may have screamed and felt bad.
‘So I got out of bed to turn the light on and open the doors downstairs. He didn’t get the hint and went into the bathroom.’
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