A craze among wild animals for going to the shops in George Street, Hove,is baffling their rescuers.
Trevor Weeks, of the East Sussex Wildlife Rescue and Ambulance Service, has visited George Street four times in five days to deliver foxes and other furry creatures back into the wild.
He has rescued two foxes from the roof space of a mobile phone shop and dealt with a third fox heading for a pharmacist. Meanwhile, a squirrel took refuge in in one of the display cabinets in Dixons on Friday night.
Mr Weeks was first called to KJC Mobile Phones in George Street last Tuesday after staff saw a paw poking through a light fitting. A vixen was rescued from the ceiling.
A day later Mr Weeks was called back to the store when the fox's brother was also found in the ceiling.
On Friday he was called to Boots after a fox was reported in the boiler room. It is believed the fox had got to the shop across roofs and house extensions nearby.
Mr Weeks said: "I don't know what's going on in George Street but there's plenty of wildlife activity."
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