Foxes mating on car bonnet caught in act by Ring doorbell in Ramsgate
05:00, 11 February 2023
updated: 06:58, 11 February 2023
A resident's Ring doorbell has captured two "cheeky" foxes getting frisky on the bonnet of her car.
Suzy Curtis, from London Road, Ramsgate, says it was not what she expected to see when she was woken up in the early hours.
At 1.20am she had heard an alert on her phone which is linked to the Ring doorbell, which had had picked up movement outside the front of her home.
When she checked to see what was going on, she thought 'what a cheek' as she noticed a fox jump from a Land Rover and onto her Hyundai Coupe to mate with another.
"I got my phone and looked and thought 'oh flippin' eck'", explained Mrs Curtis.
"Not what I expected to see at that time in the morning - it was just so funny.
"They had a little bit of a mate and then jumped off. It was so quick.
"The car is fine, it's not scratched or anything but I thought, what a cheek!
"Someone said I could have let them have the back seat."
Mrs Curtis says see regularly sees foxes in the area.
"There is one that visits me everyday but I don’t know whether that was him," she added.
"He is usually sat in the garden."
Foxes are known for making loud screaming noises when they mate, but Mrs Curtis said she didn't hear any noises at the time of her rude awakening last week.
It's not the first time a Ring doorbell has captured some interesting activity in Kent.
In September 2020, a postman was caught on camera hurling a parcel over a resident's garden gate - without even attempting to ring the bell.
And in January 2021, one of the devices was even able to capture the moment a sonic boom rocked the county.
Mating between foxes usually occurs between Christmas and mid-January, as vixens are only fertile for three days a year - usually around this time.