A John Lewis Christmas advert came to life when a dad noticed two real foxes bouncing on his trampoline late at night.
Martin Greenhalgh, 51, caught the fox cubs on camera after his home security system alerted him to intruders in his back garden.
The dad-of-one, from Cardiff, Wales, said an alarm on his CCTV system woke him up after the motion sensor cameras detected movement.
But he was stunned when he looked at the screen and saw the mystery intruders were four fox cubs having the time of their lives on his garden apparatus.
He said: ‘I looked at the camera and it was just amazing to see them there in the middle of the night.
‘It was just like the John Lewis advert when the fox jumps on the trampoline, now I see where they got the idea from.’
The IT worker said the trampoline is usually used by his daughter Lucy, 17.
He said: ‘Ironically Lucy is away at the moment on a trampoline holiday with her club, the Cardiff Fliers, in Portugal, so it’s nice to see the trampoline was still getting some use.
‘I have seen one adult fox in the garden at dusk before but never anything like this. You know they’re around but you never expect to see them.”
The 2016 John Lewis Christmas advert shows a father rigging up a new trampoline for his daughter Bridget’s present.
During the night family pet Buster the Bulldog watches jealously as foxes and other garden animals bounce around on the trampoline.
When the trampoline is revealed on Christmas morning Buster rushes past Bridget and jumps on, going as high as he can.
The advert, which cost £7 million to make, has since racked up more than 1.1million views on the official John Lewis YouTube page.
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