Two officers from the animal charity were needed to help the creature remove its head, prising out its fur a bit at a time.
The alarm was raised after the fox was seen walking around a back garden in Solihull, near Birmingham, in a very distressed state.
Despite the fox's terrifying ordeal, which meant it had been deprived of food and water for two days, it was in surprisingly good health.
Officers immediately released the animal back into the wild but said the incident should serve as a warning about leaving items lying around.
RSPCA inspector Jonathan Ratcliffe: 'I have no doubt that he would have died if we had not managed to get the watering can off, either from dehydration or from not seeing where he was going and so being killed by a car.'
He added that it is likely the fox put his head in the watering can to get to a frog or a mouse sitting at the bottom.
'This only goes to remind people of the dangers such discarded items can pose to wildlife,' Mr Ratcliffe said.
Research previously conducted by the RSPB found that foxes visit 26 per cent of gardens at least once per month.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/844466-fox-spends-two-days-with-watering-can-stuck-on-head
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