A few farmers at a village near Madhavpur in western India saw a fox fall into an irrigation well on November 27, prompting a rescue by local animal workers.

The farmers called Paresh Nimavat of Sanjeevani Nature Foundation to rescue the poor animal. Members of the Foundation rushed to the village and realised that though the water was not very deep in the 30-feet well, the fox was in danger.

It had taken shelter on a ledge and ran the risk of slipping into water as it grew tired.

They lowered a handmade cot, used in the villages, into the well and tried to persuade the fox to get onto it. But the terrified animal was too scared to come out of its shelter. So one of the team members went down the well to catch the fox with the tongs of a snake catcher stick and pull it up.

In the first try he snared a leg of the fox and tried to climb up the well, but the grip loosened and the fox slipped to water. In the second attempt, he managed to come up with the fox.

Paresh examined the fox and found that it had not suffered any injury. As soon as it was freed, the animal fled, climbing a boundary wall and disappearing into the nearby forest

A few farmers at a village near Madhavpur in western India saw a fox falling into an irrigation well on November 27.

They immediately called Paresh Nimavat of Sanjeevani Nature Foundation to rescue the poor animal. Members of the Foundation rushed to the village and realised that though the water was not very deep in the 30-feet well, the fox was in danger.

It had taken shelter on a ledge and ran the risk of slipping into water as it grew tired.

They lowered a handmade cot, used in the villages, into the well and tried to persuade the fox to get on to it. But the terrified animal was too scared to come out of its shelter. So one of the team members went down the well to catch the fox with the tongs of a snake catcher stick and pull it up.

In the first try he snared a leg of the fox and tried to climb up the well, but the grip loosened and the fox slipped to water. In the second attempt, he managed to come up with the fox.

Paresh examined the fox and found that it had nit suffered any injury. As soon as it was freed, the animal fled, climbing a boundary wall and disappearing into the nearby forest