A couple have spoken of their shock seeing a two-legged fox nimbly picking its way through their lawn on its front legs “bolt upright like a human”.
Experts say the fox is likely to have been disabled from birth and fed by humans.
Phil and Jane Carter, who live in Ilkeston, said they spotted the fox and filmed it before it dashed off “like a rocket”.
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