Terrified couple woke to find fox watching them sleep before it trashed bathroom

Beth Pinfield’s boyfriend Liam let out a screech that sent the invader dashing into their toilet (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

A couple were petrified when they found a fox watching them sleep at 5am –before it wrecked their loo and left pee that reeked so badly they still can’t get rid of the smell.

Bleary Beth Pinfield, 27, thought her cat Salem was staring at her in the 5am gloom of her bedroom, then mistook the sight of a large fox looming over her bed as a dream.

Realising it wasn’t her imagination, she woke her groundsman boyfriend Liam Ibberton, 28 – who let out a cry so loud it sent the invader dashing into their bathroom.

It swiped two shelves off a wall, knocked over plants and peed over their floor, leaving a stench the couple say bleach still can’t erase.

They caught the trespasser on video on Monday night, perched on the bathroom window sill surrounded by its mess.

Liam’s post about the clip on TikTok – which shows the couple battling to use a broom handle to open the window behind the intruder – has racked up more than 4.3 million views.

Hairdresser’s apprentice Beth said about the home invasion in South Littleton, Worcestershire: ‘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.

‘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.’

She added Liam was ‘petrified’ and said his scream ‘freaked the fox’.

Liam’s TikTok post about the chaos has reached more than 4 million views (Credits: Kennedy News and Media)

The nuisance was eventually freed when Liam collected himself and opened the bathroom window (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

Liam feared the fox was after their guinea pigs and are relieved their cat was unscathed (Picture: Kennedy News and Media)

Beth said: ‘It completely trashed the bathroom and God knows what else is in there because it still smells – we can’t get rid of it… I think it had a wee in the bathroom.

‘It’s not pleasant. We’ve bleached it and everything but we can still smell it. It’s driving us mad.’

The couple think the fox – which they say was as large as a medium sized dog – squeezed its way through the cat flap used by their 11-month-old kitten, or came in an open window.

Beth said: ‘We’d literally just decorated the kitchen and I was hoping it hadn’t destroyed the kitchen but luckily it didn’t.

‘The cat was more interested in guarding its food than the fact there was a fox in the house… I don’t know how long it’d been there – that’s the worrying part.’

Liam feared the fox was after their guinea pigs but they were also unharmed.

Despite horror stories of urban foxes attacking babies and grown-ups in their sleep, analysts think there are only around 10 such incidents a year – compared to around 250,000 dog bites annually in Britain.

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