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The RSPCA has revealed the wackiest animal rescues of 2022 - including a boa constrictor at McDonald's and a seal which swam 300 miles to a pub.
Hilarious pictures show hapless pets and wild animals trapped in bizarre places before being freed by baffled rescuers.
The charity has compiled 59 of the oddest rescues of 2022, with the weirdest being a starving seal pup that slithered into a Bristol pub.
Stunned staff at the Old Lock & Weir spotted the underweight animal in their courtyard behind a stack of beer barrels.
A stricken vixen also needed help in Colchester, Essex, when it got its head trapped inside a watering can on February 11
A fox cub needed rescuing after getting his head wedged in a car wheel after sneaking into a shed in Orpington, London
Its tag said the seal had travelled from Scotland to the English boozer - arriving on January 2.
The inn is 300 miles from the Scottish border where it was last monitored.
Wildlife supervisor Paul Oaten said: 'The River Avon runs from the coast all the way along through Keynsham where the pub is situated at the water's edge, so it's likely he found his way there swimming upstream from the coast.'
Throughout the year, the RSPCA has received nearly 300,000 reports of trapped animals - one of the charity's busiest ever years.
A not-so-cunning fox found himself in a spot of bother after he slipped over garden furniture and got his leg stuck between the slats in Ealing, West London, on January 3.
On January 4, a seal pup needed saving after getting stranded on top of a cliff 50ft above a beach in Weybourne, Norfolk.
RSPCA rescuer Amy Pellegrini said: 'He must have just taken a wrong turn and then followed the coastal path before ending up on the cliff edge.'
Meanwhile in the city, commuters were shocked to find a tarantula on a train arriving into London Bridge train station on January 7.
Another stunned Londoner also had a fright when a sugar glider flew into his bedroom and woke him up.
A Hispaniolan common tree frog has made a 4,300-mile journey across the Atlantic from its home in the Dominican Republic in a bunch of bananas
On January 4, a seal pup needed saving after getting stranded on top of a cliff 50ft above a beach in Weybourne, Norfolk
Locals were shocked after spotting a 5ft-long boa constrictor slithering outside McDonald's in Bognor Regis, West Sussex, on July 31
John Zou, 27, was asleep when he heard something scampering around his bedroom in his sixth-floor flat in Holborn at 5am on January 10.
In North Wales, rescuers abseiled 100ft down a cliff to rescue a sheep which was trapped on a narrow ledge.
The animal had tumbled down the cliff in Great Orme after being chased by a dog on January 21.
B&Q staff raised the alarm after they found a fox curled up asleep on a doormat in the Peckham store in London on January 22.
Rescuer Chloe Wilson attended to help: 'He looked very cute all curled up on a doormat down one of the shopping aisles.'
In Bishop Auckland, County Durham, rescuers dismantled a dry stone wall to save a cat which was trapped after it tried to crawl through a tiny gap.
The animal charity was called out in London on February 2 after a fox managed to get a tin of dog food stuck on its head in the appropriately-named suburb of Barking.
A stricken vixen also needed help in Colchester, Essex, when it got its head trapped inside a watering can on February 11.
RSPCA rescuer Natalie Read managed to remove the can before releasing the shocked animal back into the wild.
She said: 'The caller said the poor fox had the plastic watering can stuck on her head and was thrashing around trying to get it off. She was clearly distressed.'
The charity has compiled 59 of the oddest rescues of 2022, with the weirdest being a starving seal pup that slithered into a Bristol pub
Rescuers saving a hedgehog that got stuck in a open drain in Hull, East Yorkshire
A woman was in for a shock when she woke up to find a 3ft-long snake slithering in through her open bedroom window in Basildon, Essex
A bodging badger needed a helping hand after getting stuck in a narrow gap between a wall and a fence at a house in Reepham, Norfolk.
Rescuers from the RSPCA and London Fire Service came to the aid of a fox who got its head and leg stuck through the metal base of a chair in a Streatham garden in south London on March 3.
RSPCA Inspector Lynn Serrano said: 'We're not sure how it happened but the wicker chair was upside down and the fox had his head and leg stuck through the metal pieces at the base of the chair and the top of the chair legs.'
A ewe was feeling a little sheepish after getting tangled in a rose bush in a field in Grantham, Lincolnshire.
A muntjac deer was left hanging helplessly upside down after getting tangled in chicken wire in woodland in Addlestone, Surrey.
A hedgehog got stuck in a vertical groundpipe and needed to be rescued by the RSPCA and fire crews on Isle of Sheppey Holiday Village in Leysdown-on-Sea, Kent, on April 9.
Homeowners in Birmingham had a surprise when they went to investigate a noise and found a cat giving birth to a litter of kittens in the guttering above their conservatory on April 12.
A fox cub needed rescuing after getting his head wedged in a car wheel after sneaking into a shed in Orpington, London.
A hungry badger got stuck in a skip in Cawood, North Yorkshire, while searching for food on April 22.
An eight-strong team of rescuers saved a stranded sheep which was trapped on a cliff ledge 50ft above the ground in Kingsbridge, Devon.
