You leave your Birkenstocks outside for two nights and this happens…
Apologies, by the way, for the less than pristine soles – what do you expect, I’m a gardener? – but I draw your attention to the almost surgical way the leather has been snipped by, I’d put money on it, Mr Fox. Isn’t it creepy? It’s not like they had a good chow down on the foot-fragrant leather or took it off to their den to hoard it or anything animalistic like that. Instead it’s an act of discreet sabotage, a fashion critique, the nip of sartorial disapproval. Last year, they did it to the blue ones. What do London foxes have against sensible German footwear?
yes, it does seem that foxes are a load of foot fetishists. But where are they getting them all from? Is there something about a visit to Kew that makes people forget to take their shoes home?
I’m a volunteer guide at Kew and we regularly find single shoes in the gardens of a morning. It always seemed so mysterious, I always assumed they were left by bonkers people. I’ve realised lately it must be foxes whipping them away to nuzzle their smelliness / etc.