Terry Nutkins has commented in the Guardian about the problem of urban foxes

When a very rare incident like this involving a fox does occur, it is never the animal's fault. Foxes are not like wolves. They will never hunt humans, but only defend themselves if they feel that their own lives or their young are being threatened.

To the extent to which urban foxes are a problem, it is one we've landed ourselves with. Some years ago, it became fashionable to have a fox in your garden and people would attract them to their gardens because they saw foxes as a countryside import into the city. When foxes started coming into cities people became quite excited about this "exotic" rural wildlife. If you had one in your garden, you'd actually invite people over to come and see it. They were given food and this, of course, encouraged them to come back. There was an abundance of food around the place and foxes are opportunist feeders. They're also tough animals and so they bred quickly. But as the fashion died down, people's attitudes to foxes began to change. ...

The RSPCA does a tremendous job in getting these animals out of inner cities and it's this kind of approach that we need to encourage...

But we need to take responsibility for the fact that these foxes are in our cities: they're here because we wanted them to be.

Our Opinion:

Surely we have too many dangerous attacks from 'domesticated dogs' who are either too poorly trained or in too much pain to obey their training to panic about one fox attack?