Girl traumatised by dead fox

She told her daughter, Angelica - whose favourite children's character is Swiper the Fox, from the cartoon series Dora the Explorer - that the animal would be taken away by the time she came home from school that day.

But by the evening the fox remained unmoved, with buses and cars forced to swerve around it or drive over it as they travelled along Goldhawk Road, near the junction with Paddenswick Road.

Mrs Robson said: "At 6am I heard a screech of tyres, and I looked out the window and saw what resembled a dog. I came downstairs and realised it was a lovely, fully grown fox with a bright, bushy tail.

"I called the council's out of hours service and they made a note to pass on to the highways team.

"When I picked my daughter up from school at 3pm, she was asking me if the fox had gone to heaven. We came back and it was still in the road, and my daughter was crying.
"If it was a human being everyone would be up in arms. It seems as if there isn't anyone who cares about animals or worries about what this does to young children. I don't think it's right."
Mrs Robson, 43, also called the RSPCA, to be told that they only respond to calls about animals which are still alive.

She spoke to council representatives three times to try to get the fox removed, and is now urging them to rethink their approach to removing large animals killed on the streets.

A council spokesman said: "Hammersmith and Fulham has some of the cleanest streets in the country, with 93 per cent of roads in the borough cleaner that the national standard. We aim to have all road kill removed within 24 hours, but usually far exceed this timescale."