2 Gray Foxes Saved From Deep Window Well At Peninsula Home

PORTOLA VALLEY, CA—Two gray foxes are now safely back in the wild after being rescued from a deep concrete window well by the Peninsula Humane Society and the SPCA Thursday, the PHS and SPCA wrote in a news release Friday.

“An individual who was cleaning the windows in a Portola Valley home spotted two foxes confined in a deep concrete window well and called us for help,” the Peninsula Humane Society and SPCA’s Communications Manager Buffy Martin Tarbox said. “Somehow the two foxes fell into the 10-foot-high window well and were unable to get themselves out. PHS/SPCA rescue staff literally plucked them from their perilous predicament, saving the lives of the two beautiful native gray foxes.”

It is unknown how the duo ended up in the window well or how long they had been trapped there.

“The drop into the window well was so high that our rescue staff was initially unable to reach the foxes," Tarbox said. "So, with permission from the homeowner, he entered the house, opened the window from the inside of the home to access the window well, and was able to securely grasp the foxes putting them in cages and taking them outside for evaluation."

Neither fox was suffering from any obvious injuries, so they were released and "happily fled back into the wild," according to Tarbox.

Gray foxes are native to the San Francisco Bay Area. They are believed to be monogamous and are important to the ecosystem helping to control small rodent populations.