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Swede's surprise fika thief: this very cheeky little fox

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Swede's surprise fika thief: this very cheeky little fox
The Swedish fika fox. Photo: Viktor Risling

You know when you're enjoying a fika at your Swedish summer house and then suddenly a fox walks up to you and rudely finishes all your coffee?

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That's what happened to Viktor Risling in Grötlingbo on the island of Gotland.

"At first I thought there was something yellow walking towards me. I looked up and saw it was a fox. It came very close. I put my hand towards it and it smelled my hand. After that it smelled my coffee," he told The Local on Tuesday.

"Then it drank the coffee right beside me. It was very nice to be so close to nature."

Risling snapped a series of pictures of his unexpected fika companion and posted them on social media. They quickly went viral after the Dagens Nyheter newspaper first picked up the strange story.

But the guest's table manners left something to be desired when he knocked the cup over to drink.

"The fox enjoyed the coffee a lot. It's a wild animal so it can't behave properly. But it will learn, we are working on it," laughed Risling.

The daring animal missed out on the standard Swedish cinnamon roll with his coffee, but Risling revealed that he did still get a special treat.

"It came back today, and I gave it some turkey. It enjoyed it. I got a friend now."

Interview by The Local's intern Saina Behnejad.

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