The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has shared their wackiest animal rescues from 2025, including a fox trapped in a chair and another one stuck inside the engine of an Amazon delivery van.
The charity compiled the list with pictures showing hapless animals and pets trapped in bizarre places but they all were soon freed by baffled—but determined—rescuers.
Of the oddest rescues last year, one of the weirdest was a baby kitten that got itself trapped in the sewage system.
Stunned staff at the site in Birmingham, England, alerted the charity after hearing the tiny animal’s “booming meows”.
RSPCA Inspector Boris Lasserres and Cara Gibbon both donned dry suits to rescue the kitten, nicknamed ‘Olivia Twist’.
“She was trapped down a sewage flow system and we think she must have fallen from quite a height above as there was no other way she could have got herself in there,” said Cara, who reported that the kitten was taken to an animal hospital where she made a full recovery and was later re-homed.
“We know she had been in there for at least three days and with no mum around she must have been terrified.”
In January, a not-so-cunning fox found himself stuck in a tight spot after he slipped over garden furniture and got his paw stuck between the slats in a backyard in South East London (top photo).
Another young fox cub needed rescuing after getting stuck inside the engine of an Amazon delivery van in Derby, England.
The distressed female fox was only spotted by the shocked driver after she gnawed through a cable, triggering a dashboard warning light to illuminate.
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Meanwhile, in April, a peregrine falcon became tangled and trapped in anti-bird netting in a block of flats in Birmingham.
A seagull was also lucky to escape without injury after getting caught up in a football net in Ramsgate, Kent, in February.
It wasn’t only birds getting themselves in a flap negotiating nets, in Sheffield a badger found itself tied up in knots after stumbling into a football goal.
There were more animals needing help after wandering where they shouldn’t have been.
A hedgehog found herself needing urgent care after being injured by a weed whacker’s string trimmer in Cheddar, Somerset. Despite having many of her spines cut off in the mishap, she made a full recovery before being released into the wild.
Days later a tawny owl needed rescuing after getting tangled on a branch by its wing. The bird was found hanging 20-feet above fast-flowing water in Bedwas, Caerphilly, Wales.
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2025 was one of the charity’s busiest years, said RSPCA superintendent Simon Osborne.
“Every single day throughout the year, our teams rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home hundreds of animals with very special backgrounds and stories of triumph over adversity.”
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