When Tasqueen Zahra Akkas of Ty’s Rescues & Friends
got a call from a municipality worker about a fox who’d been stranded in a flooded construction site for hours, she and her team rushed to the scene. The worker and his team had been clearing rainwater when they heard the terrified cries of an animal in trouble. The poor thing was struggling to stay afloat, and Akkas knew if they didn’t work fast, the fox might drown.Unfortunately, the water was already incredibly deep, and there was debris floating everywhere, making the situation a dangerous one.
“We tried everything — floating plywood, giving her something to climb onto — but the walls were too slippery,” Akkas wrote on Instagram. “Even if she reached the edge, there was no escape.”
Akkas
knew she had no choice but to dive in and try to grab the fox herself. The fox was scared and confused, and kept swimming away from her rescuer whenever she got too close. After two hours of this, her body grew tired and she began to slow down, and Akkas seized the opportunity.
“I caught up to her, managed to secure her, and we pulled her out,” Akkas wrote.
The fox was so tired after her ordeal that she could barely move, so Akkas took her home to give her time to heal.
“That night, she rested somewhere quiet,” Akkas wrote. “We made sure she had food, warmth and space to breathe.”
By the next morning, the fox was completely different than she’d been the day before. She was dry, alert and so much spunkier. Akkas could see she was ready to go home, so the team found a safe spot and released the fox back where she belonged.
Akkas and her team are so grateful to the worker who heard the fox and took the time to call for help.
“Because even in the middle of chaos, someone stopped to listen, someone chose to care, and a life was saved because of it,” Akkas wrote.
