An 'animal loving' Glasgow family helped nurse an injured fox back to health, and gave it refuge in the form of a tent in their back garden.
Florence the fox was looked after by Liz Winks and her four children, after the injured animal had followed her eldest son to their Drumchapel home and the family noticed a particularly bad wound on it's side.
Despite Liz having three dogs in her house, the poor fox attempted to gain entry by sticking it's nose through her letterbox. Liz is a qualified nurse and could tell the wound was bad, so sought out the advice of a local vet.
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Liz said: "My eldest son came back one day and said a fox had been following him home and was now in the garden.
"I have three spaniels and they were barking but she was still trying to come in, putting her nose through the letterbox.
"I noticed she had a big wound on her back. I'm a qualified nurse and when I saw the wound I just thought it looked awful."
Kind-hearted Liz even bought some medication online to treat Florence for mange and began adding it to the meals she was putting out for Florence. The family also forked out £19 for a tent for their new furry friend to sleep in.
Liz added: "We got her a wee tent and she would periodically go between the tent and the chairs in our pergola.
"We made the tent comfy for her, we wanted her to feel like she was safe in a den.
"We have always been animal lovers, last week we rescued a baby seagull that we found in the road and we called the SSPCA.
"But Florence was just different, she was so tame."
Liz's 18-year-old daughter Lucy decided to document their time with Florence and posted the videos to TikTok where they quickly went viral.
Videos posted on Lucy's TikTok account and showing the fox exploring the family home as it recovers have racked up over 1.8 million views.
Florence spent two weeks sleeping at the family's home until one day she got up and left.
"Her wound was getting better very quickly and then after two week's she was gone," Liz commented.
"My daughter is exceptionally good with animals and she did some research into it and found out about something called a rescue nap. This is when a fox is injured and it picks a safe place to recuperate until it has recovered.
"Apparently, sometimes when this happens foxes will return to the safe garden with their babies."
Florence may have left but the Wink family hope to see their unexpected guest again soon.
"My nephew's girlfriend actually ended up sending me a video that her friend had posted on Facebook of a fox who had followed them and it was Florence," Liz said.
"We knew it was definitely her because there was a mark in the same place were her wound was healing.
"It was so nice to see she was OK."
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