Injured: Denny with teeth wounds on his face after the fox attack
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The baby attacked by a fox had teeth puncture wounds in his head and may never regain feeling in the finger the animal ripped off, the child’s uncle said last night.
Barry Cawley, 38, said that the family thought the fox had smelled five-week-old Denny Dolan and followed his scent into the room.
Mr Cawley, a postman from Bromley, South East London, said: ‘There were teeth marks in his head. I think the fox tried to bite his head first but it didn’t fit so he bit Denny’s hand.
‘His mother Hayley heard his screams and then a thud as the fox pulled Denny off the sofa. She said that when she ran towards the fox, it hissed at her through its teeth.
‘If it hadn't been for her quick actions, who knows what would have happened. We think the fox must have smelled Denny as I don’t think he’d have seen him from the garden.’
Denny was attacked by a male fox while he was on the sofa in the living room and tried to drag him out of the house by the hand, severing his left ring finger.
Luckily, his mother Hayley Cawley, 28, heard his screams and the thud as the fox pulled the baby to the door and ran downstairs.
She wrestled the fox off her son, but not before it hissed at her.
Recovering: Denny Dolan who was attacked by a fox in Bromley. His hand is heavily bandaged where the fox severed a finger
He added: ‘I went to see him in hospital and he managed a little smile for me.
‘He’s recovering well, though there’s not much chance he’ll get the feeling back in his ring finger on his left hand where the fox bit him.
‘Hayley has been by his side since it happened. She is so traumatised and she’s very pale. She hasn’t been able to sleep or eat.
‘Paul’s the stronger one, but he’s so upset. It’s his first child. He’d been picking up the other two children when it happened and Hayley phoned him and was hysterical.’
Traumatized: Baby Denny's mother Hayley, pictured with his father Paul Dolan, wrestled the fox away from her baby
He added that foxes were a blight on the area he lived in and could regularly be seen stalking the streets and feeding on rubbish.
He said: ‘More should be done about the foxes. They are everywhere round here. There are some that live in our garden.’
Yesterday, one of the family’s neighbors who lives round the corner from where the attack happened, said she had returned to her home one day to see a fox sitting in the bath.
Sheena O’Donnell said: ‘He was just sitting in the tub bold as brass. I stared at him and he ran away. They are such an issue around here.’
Culled from The Daily Mail UK.
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