--- title: This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap description: Just like British author Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr. Fox, this fox was unafraid of humans canonical: https://time.com/3999479/fox-napping-london/ author: Eliana Dockterman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-15T16:36:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:28.461Z og:title: This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap og:description: And many Londoners took note og:url: https://time.com/3999479/fox-napping-london/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap twitter:description: And many Londoners took note twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Sleepy Fox Found the Perfect Place to Take a Nap > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 15, 2015 4:36 PM UTC  by [Eliana Dockterman](https://time.com/author/eliana-dockterman/)  ## Eliana Dockterman Correspondent Aug 15, 2015 4:36 PM UTC 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) 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) \[[_The Standard_](http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/fox-somehow-scrambles-up-to-first-floor-balcony-then-has-a-nap-a2488236.html)\] ```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"}}]}] ```