--- description: Just like British author Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, this fox was unafraid of humans title: This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Aug 15, 2015 4:36 PM CUT  by [Eliana Dockterman](/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Correspondent Aug 15, 2015 4:36 PM CUT Foxes are usually great at finding spots to hide, which is why many Londoners were taken aback when one was found dozing on a second-floor window ledge of a Notting Hill home this week. > [](https://twitter.com/raphablueberry/status/631945611449753600) Author Rachel Johnson, the sister of London’s mayor Boris Johnson, was the first to spot the drowsy fox. “It must have got up via the scaffolding on the house next door,” she [told](http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fox-somehow-scrambles-up-to-first-floor-balcony-then-has-a-nap-a2488236.html "undefined") the _Standard_. “There are lots of them in the neighborhood, always in the gardens—they seem to own the place. But when I saw this one it was hard to feel the same sense of rage.” > [](https://twitter.com/paulsw11/status/631880760862068736) \[[_The Standard_](http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fox-somehow-scrambles-up-to-first-floor-balcony-then-has-a-nap-a2488236.html "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3999479/fox-napping-london/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3999479/fox-napping-london/"},"headline":"This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap","datePublished":"2015-08-15T16:36:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:28.461Z","description":"Just like British author Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, this fox was unafraid of humans","url":"https://time.com/3999479/fox-napping-london/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliana Dockterman","jobTitle":"Correspondent","url":"https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3999479/fox-napping-london/","name":"This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap"}}]}] ```