DutchNews, August 6, 2015
Photo: video still Eduard Plate |
A hungry fox
pacing next to a chicken coup in the garden of a family home in Zeewolde has
attacked the person filming its actions on a mobile phone.
Eduard Plate, who is
a Flevoland provincial councillor for the VVD, spotted the fox hanging around
his neighbours’ chickens on Wednesday afternoon and started filming it. After a
few seconds the fox turned and saw Plate. It leapt at him, forcing him to run
off and stop filming.
Plate called in pest control experts who caught the fox
and took it to Lelystad where it was killed, RTL news reports.
The fox had been
spotted in the garden on a previous occasion and was hanging around the built-up
area since Monday. According to RTL news, the animal was ‘sick’ but did not
give further details.
A spokesman for Faunabeheer Flevoland said it is
extremely unusual for a fox to attack someone and that the animal will have
felt threatened.
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