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Construction workers returning to the site of a new home they were
building in Harwich port were surprised to find three fox cubs in the basement
of the house. The mother fox had set up a den under a shed on the adjacent
property and the workers had seen her and her four cubs around for a few weeks.
Apparently over the weekend three of the four cubs had fallen into the
unfinished basement. The construction workers called Officer Jack Burns,
Harwich Police Animal Control, who determined that the cubs could not get out on
their own and needed to be rescued. The Animal Rescue League of Boston's Cape
Cod Branch in Brewster was called for assistance. In the meantime the workers
put a plank through a basement window down to the floor in the hope that the
cubs would climb out on their own.
Officer Lynda Brogden from the ARL
responded to the scene. The only access to the basement was a ladder set up
where the stairs to the basement will be. Officers Burns and Brogden climbed
down into the basement where they found that one of the cubs had managed to
climb to safety and the other two were huddled together in a corner. With the
use of restraint poles the cubs were caught and released outside where the
mother fox spent some time checking them over and cleaning them. As the officers
were leaving they were able to observe the mother fox and the four cubs running
on the dunes overlooking beautiful Nantucket Sound.
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