The curse of Mondays is ineluctable . It ’s so strong , it seems , even the craftiest and most cunning puppet of the animal kingdom can not escape it .

Last Monday , this not - so - fantastic - Mr Fox was launch dangling upside from the bush , just a whisker off from the water , on the Hythe Military Canal in Kent , UK . How it obtain there or what it was trying to do is anyone ’s supposition .

TheRoyal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(RSPCA ) , the UK ’s leading animal upbeat charity , came to the deliverance after the fox was make out by a local passerby . They sailed down the river on their mission to save the fox with the help of a council prole ’s boat . Thankfully , the fox was   in astonishingly beneficial shape even though it had been hang there for some time . After a quick check - up from   an   animal compendium policeman , they even were capable to release it into   the idle that same sidereal day .

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“ I guess the fox had gone across the tree , not release the tree was actually hanging over the canal , ” Attila Desics , fauna collection officeholder for the RSPCA , said in a statement .

“ He ’d contend to get himself altogether stick by his back legs in the branches and as a result was just hanging down head first with his nose literally a few inches from the piddle . I am pretty certain if he ’d have stuck his tongue out he could have had a drink from the duct . ”

" Once we got near him I was able to get a grasper around his body and pull him onto the sauceboat and pop him in a basket . By this distributor point , there was quite a bunch gather so once I got him they all render a cheer from the other side of the duct ! "

“ This fox was an extremely huffy fella despite his trial by ordeal . I checked him over and once he managed to get the circulation back into his legs I released him back to the natural state . ”

“ This was certainly one of the most unusual rescues I have done … It surely was n’t your normal beginning to a Monday sunup ! ”