Builder takes home baby fox after mistaking cub for abandoned puppy

A construction worker who thought he had rescued an abandoned puppy from a building site in Merseyside later discovered he had taken home a fox cub.

The tiny cub was mistaken for a puppy when he was found apart from his mother on the site in Speke.

He was taken home by a worker, who later contacted the RSPCA after realising he had a fox cub in his house.

The cub, thought to be less than a month old, was taken to a vets where he is being fed on puppy milk and waiting to be transferred to the RSPCA's Stapeley Grange Wildlife Centre in Nantwich.

Once he is independent and strong enough, he will be released back into the wild.