The creation of a killer species: Cultural rupture in representations of 'urban foxes' in UK newspapers

Stewart, Kate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2529-954X and Cole, Matthew (2015) The creation of a killer species: Cultural rupture in representations of 'urban foxes' in UK newspapers. In: Critical Animal and Media Studies. Routledge, pp. 124-137. ISBN 9780203797631

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Abstract

At approximately 10:00 pm on 5th June, 2010, nine-month-old twins, Lola and Isabella Koupparis, were reported to have been attacked in their cots by a fox who had entered their family home in east London through an open ground-floor door before making her or his way upstairs and attacking the twins, resulting in arm and facial injuries requiring the twins’ hospitalization. Although the fox allegedly involved in the incident left the house without being captured, local environmental health officers laid traps in the rear garden of the house, and when a fox (who may or may not have been the same one reported in the twins’ bedroom) was captured by one the following night, she or he was killed by a ‘pest controller.’ The Metropolitan Police Service stated that traps would remain in the garden for some time (BBC News, 2010a).

Item Type:	Book Section
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Sociology
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2021 23:44
Last Modified:	17 Aug 2022 11:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/81078
DOI:	10.4324/9781315731674

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